Archives of Blog

Major Bleeding in the ED

Ok so I asked some of the nursing team in ED what they wanted to know more about, so this one is for you guys! What do we define as ‘major bleeding’ or major haemorrhage’? For me the way I describe that definition has changed somewhat over the years, in my military days where I […]
2 years ago

Winter is over? Time for a new challenge in ED

Think back to the start of March 2020… Team ED was still dealing with what seemed like the longest winter in the history of the world, Twitter was a-buzz with stories of how “crowding kills”. Corridor care was still a national problem, Staff were tired, and it didn’t look like we were getting any let […]
3 years ago

Between the lines #5

Much like many of the projects I started in 2020 and what is perhaps a damning indictment of my pandemic experience; blog number 5 is a year out of date. What was meant to be a piece extolling the importance of clinical education and teamwork during a crisis, has now turned into a reflection on […]
3 years ago

Rapid Assessment and Triage: my two CENTS worth..

My name is Pete Chessum I’m a Consultant ACP in ED/Acute medicine and also a PhD student studying resilience engineering in emergency departments.  In 2013 I helped with a NIHR project called the Emergency Care Handover Project (ECHO). After a decade of ACP life I’ve been asked to share what I think works (or doesn’t) […]
3 years ago

ED BusyBlog

Cast your minds back to February 2020, just 6 weeks ago. Emergency Departments throughout the country were experiencing their worst waiting times on record. Treating patients in the corridor was normal, there were even designated corridor nurses. Staff shortages, not enough beds in the hospital, no social care places to discharge patients- our EDs were […]
4 years ago

I feel like my heart is skipping a beat…

Hello all and welcome to the next blog from @ededucate and this one is all about Atrial Fibrillation AF or Fast Atrial Fibrillation F(AF), something we see quite a lot of in ED. The nursing considerations in these patients are important and in the last few months I have been involved in a couple of […]
4 years ago

It’s Ok not to be Ok… but its Ok to be Ok too…

Recently I had a conversation with one of our relatively new-to-ED nurses. We’d had a pretty awful shift with a tragic outcome and that night she text me saying ‘Is it normal to feel upset even when I know I’ve done everything right? It feels like I should be fine but I’m not. I keep […]
4 years ago

RCEM Annual Scientific Conference 2019

Earlier this month I attended the RCEM Annual Scientific Conference in Gateshead. It was a great event, and there is a lot of content to cover. So, I’m just going to focus on a few things that I thought might be of interest. If you want more of a detailed overview of the conference then […]
4 years ago

Between the lines #4 – New student nurse standards; are you prepared?

At the beginning of this year I dipped my toe into Masters level study by undertaking my Practice Teachers Course. Thankfully, after 6 months of solid teaching, mentoring students and completing a difficult essay on adult learning theories I am pleased to say that I passed. Sadly, this was one of the last NMC validated […]
4 years ago