Emergency Department crowding is hard to explain to non-clinical audiences. A cognitive bridge is a three-step tool to help others understand.
Explaining Emergency Department Crowding Using a Cognitive Bridge Read More
Simplifying urgent care data translation is essential for hospital flow improvement. This post provides a perspective on how to achieve this.
Speaking urgent care flow fluently Read More
How do patients want clinicians to explain COVID-19 tests, uncertainty and the possibility of dying? In this February 2021 podcast, Rick Body speaks with patient representatives Graham Prestwich and Val Tate about communication through PPE and what matters to patients and families.
Am I going to die? Communicating COVID-19 test results and risk Read More
What makes a clinical handover work when a critically ill patient arrives? Drawing on a 2018 Intensive Care Society presentation, this post explores preparation, team attention, structured communication and follow-up. It offers adaptable principles for sharing essential information while recognising that urgent treatment sometimes takes priority.
Handover. Process, practice and controversy. #ICSSOA2018. St Emlyn’s Read More
How are online networks changing medical education and research? This reflection on an EMERGE10 presentation explores finding, curating and evaluating information, engaging learners and sharing research. It also considers attention, communication and the relationship between publication metrics and influence in the social age.
Learning in the Social Age. St Emlyn’s at #EMERGE10 Read More
Does describing clinical work as ‘sexy’ matter? In this FemInEM Ideas Exchange 2018 talk, Natalie May challenges the language of medicine through gender stereotypes, colleagues’ experiences and patients’ perspectives. She also reflects on the social media response and how curiosity and respectful conversation can help us reconsider familiar words.
So Unsexy – Why We Shouldn’t Use The Word Sexy in Clinical Medicine #FIX18 Read More
Simon Carley sets out five approaches to resuscitation practice that require no new equipment: preparation with the Zero Point Survey, regular team updates, separating immediate care from strategic thinking, peer observation and hot debriefs. This St Emlyn’s Live 2018 talk focuses on how teams work together.
#stemlynsLIVE: Five free strategies to improve your resuscitation practice. St Emlyn’s Read More
Psychologist Esther Murray joins the St Emlyn’s podcast to explore moral injury in emergency and prehospital care. The accompanying notes discuss research into medical students’ prehospital experiences and the psychological impact of witnessing traumatic events, while recognising the limits of the small study that prompted the conversation.
Podcast – Moral Injury in Emergency and Pre-hospital care with Esther Murray Read More
