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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JC: Aspirin is not effective for hospitalised COVID19 patients. St Emlyn's
Podcast – March 2021 Monthly Round Up
Post-vaccine headache in the Emergency Department: what you need to know. St Emlyn's
Podcast – Assessing on-line medical education resources with Peter Brindley
JC: Thromboprophylaxis on the ICU for COVID-19 patients. St Emlyn's
Podcast – February 2021 Monthly Round Up
JC: Convalescent plasma (still) does not work in COVID-19. St Emlyn's
Colchicine does not improve mortality in COVID19. St Emlyn's