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Originally Posted by cold1
This is a very Eye opening thread.
The underlying theme here seems to be "Your safety is Your responsibility".
This is something that I have started to preach to our new guys on the Vol FD.
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Very true....
I will utilize concepts that are near and dear to the QP's and others here: situational awareness is mandatory for health care providers. Whether it is on the street, in the E.D., the Trauma room or on the hospital floors.....SA can save your life.
Forget panic buttons...they are to alert the security staff to a clean up operation. Just look around your working environment and imagine what steps it would take to knock a few things off of the 'to do' list to make it safer. Are there locks on doors to isolate you from a threat? We NOW have them on the Trauma room. Is someone watching your six or are you alone and focused entirely on the patient, not on the crowd or 'friends/family'.....situational awareness will hopefully prevent an untoward event from initiating, IF you or someone can identify it before it happens.
How many of us work as a team.....not the 'care team' but as a 'tactical team'. Try it out, we are in our ED and Trauma area so that signals (verbal/other) are clear and understood and people know what to do rather than wonder what to do.....practice it and it improves for everyones safety.
ss
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
Last edited by swatsurgeon; 04-01-2008 at 12:12.
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