Archives of #assessment

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) […]

Patient assessment

This is the first of our accompanying infographics for each section of the framework. You may have heard we that we released our podcasts finally on iTunes (if you haven’t don’t worry click here)  The plan is that for each section we will have a podcast, an infographic, a blog and a video to access […]

Pain assessment in the ED

Hi lovely people, Welcome to our 3rd podcast and we actually forgot to say on the podcast that we have a new jingle!! Thanks to Nigel (@Nrtaylor101) from the @RCEMLearning team for his help with that. Ok so we are pretty chuffed with the support you guys have given us so far and we want to keep […]

Patient assessment

This episode is the first ‘proper’ one and we are discussing triage and assessment at the front door in line with the framework CCT1- the whole part of CCT1 knowledge and skills.​ We have mentioned a few documents in the podcast so they are linked below for your viewing pleasure.  We are still trying to get the […]