Policies, Procedures & Guidelines
Emergency Management & Response:
OHS
- Safely Extracting Critically Unwell Patients from Vehicles
Clinical & Operational Practice:
Roles & Responsibilities
Nursing:
Medical:
Clerical:
Tools
- Handover Sticker
- Nurse initiated pathology/radiology card
- Emergency Triage Education Kit
- Adult Sepsis Pathway
- CBR role reference cards
- Code brown medications (old EOU Medication Room) and code brown equipment
- DOS Huddles: 0000, 0400, 0830. 1200, 1600, 1900
What’s Different?
- Streaming process and pods
- Decontamination shower path of travel
- Paths of travel
- Visitor management and intercoms to pods (no intercom at Triage)
- Lock down process: lockdown notification to pagers & secondary Adult Wait Room egress
- External doors into negative air flow Adult Acute Treatment Room
- Remote door release buttons
Communications
Telecommunication:
- DECT Phones
- Landlines
- Pagers for PSA’s
- Emergency lock down pagers
- Fax
- ED PA: wait rooms and whole of ED
Screens:
- AV arrivals board
- Electronic Journey Board (EJB)
- EDIS information screen
- Waiting room patient information screens
Other:
- CCTV
- BAT phone (ED NIC desk)
- AV two way radio (ED NIC desk)
- AV Triage intercom
- Fixed duress
- Nurse call & emergency call
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Beds: 3 Adult TAR, 1 Paediatric TAR, 2 BAR, 1 BAU Interview Room, 3 AV Offload Cubicles, 1 Digital Imaging Suite
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Entry criteria: Triage – no criteria, BOC - 16-64 years (or by exception)
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Length of stay: < 120 minutes, BOC < 1 hour
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Clinical Care: ATS, Assessment, First Aid Streaming, Clerking, BOC – brief assessment and intervention of behaviours of concern
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Beds: 12 AM/PM - (0800 to 2300), 1 Ultrasound Suite, 1 - Digital Imaging Suite, 2 – Treatment/Plaster Rooms
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Entry criteria: > 18 years (or by exception)
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Length of stay: < 4 hours
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Clinical Care: To provide care to patients with simple injury or illness.
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Beds: 24 Adult Cubicles (24/7)
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Entry criteria: > 18 years (or by exception)
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Length of stay: < 4 hours
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Clinical Care: To provide care to adult patients who are acutely unwell, potentially unstable and complex. Fast Track provides care to patients with simple injury or illness.
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Beds: 4
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Entry criteria: Any patient requiring 1:1 care
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Length of stay : < 4 hours
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Clinical Care: Critically unwell. Require airway, respiratory, circulation support
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Beds: 9 Acute Cubicles (24/7) – 4 Fast Track (0800 to 2300)
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Entry criteria: < =16 years (or by exception)
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Length of stay: < 4 hours
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Clinical Care: Paediatric patients not requiring 1:1 resuscitation care
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Beds: 24 Beds. 1 Class N Negative Pressure Room
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Entry criteria: > 18 years (or by exception)
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Length of stay : 4 – 24 hours
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Clinical Care: Defined management plan and patient meets clinical pathways criteria
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Beds: 6 Beds - 4 Interview Rooms
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Entry criteria: > 18 years (or by exception)
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Length of stay : 4 – 24 hours
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Clinical Care: Extended assessment and clinical management for patient with high prevalence, low acuity MHAOD presentations
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Beds: 4 Beds - 2 Behavioural Assessment Rooms (BARs) – 1 Interview Room
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Entry criteria: > 18 years (or by exception), and BOC > 1
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Length of stay : 4 – 24 hours
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Clinical Care: Management, assessment and intervention of patient with acute behavioural presentations
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