Professional capability 3: Professional responsibilities and health systems
The capability
Understand the professional, legal and organisational responsibilities of medical work.
These examples concern decision-making capacity, professional responsibilities and working within the wider health service.
Learn
Chapter 5: Psychiatry and safeguarding
Use the linked legal framework when discussing consent and decision-specific capacity.
Chapter 4: Communication
Discuss how crowding is escalated through the hospital and wider health system.
Apply it in practice
Choose one thing to try on your next suitable shift, within your role and level of supervision. Discuss what happened and what you would change.
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The Fifth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction: What Emergency Clinicians Need to Know
JC: Prehospital Whole Blood in Traumatic Haemorrhage – The SWiFT Randomised Controlled Trial
Make it SNAPpy! Paracetamol overdoses in teenagers
JC: Illicit Drug Induced Hyperthermia: A Time-Critical Toxicological Emergency
Talking Trauma – London Trauma Conference 2024 Day 2
Difficult Airway Society Meeting 2024
GLP-1A toxicity: What do emergency clinicians need to know about drugs like Ozempic® and Wegovy®?
The Dirty Adrenaline (Epi) drip.