Placement Overview
| Placement Title | The Diabetic Centre – PAOP 40 |
| Trust | Northern Care Alliance |
| Your Placement Contact | Sarah Rowland – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | Diabetes Specialist Nurse, PEL |
| Placement Address | Royal Oldham Hospital, Oldham, OL1 2JH |
| Placement City/Town: | Oldham |
| Placement Phone | 0161 627 8268 |
| Your University Contact: | Dilla Davis – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
We are based in the Diabetes Centre near the B&Q Entrance to TROH. We work across the whole site, including A&E, SDEC, Antenatal and the Mental Health Units as well as the wards.
We also carry out telephone reviews with discharged patients.
We run several outpatients’ clinics, including Young Persons Clinics, Pump Clinics, Antenatal Clinics and complex antenatal clinics, Joint DSN and Dietician, consultant and Consultant Clinics. We also run and manage DAFNE Clinics for patients with Type 1 Diabetes.
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
We are a small team; the majority of our team are Assessors and the rest are supervisors. Learners will be allocated an Assessor prior to their arrival at the Diabetes Centre
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
Ward Reviews of Diabetic patients and their treatment plan
Working alongside Medics to adjust insulin regimes.
Using patient CBG readings, blood results, clinical history and current medical status to evaluate the best management plan for the individual patient, considering their lifestyle needs.
Reviewing NICE Guidelines and external and internal policies to insure we are working with the most relevant, evidence-based information.
Our area provides the student with a depth of knowledge about Diabetes, its various types, how we work with the patient through education and personalised care to manage their Diabetes and prevent Diabetes related complications.
How Diabetes is impacted by other pathologies
How to manage acute complications related to Diabetes.
How to manage chronic conditions related to Diabetes.
How we work as part of a multi-Disciplinary team to get the best outcomes for our patients.
Pharmacology of Diabetes.
Pathophysiology of Diabetes.
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
Medicines management
ANTT
Communication
Working with the Multidisciplinary Team
What resources are available to help students learning?
We have access to Diabetes management equipment.
We have access to research documents and websites that we base our policies on.
We have visits from reps who offer education sessions on Diabetes Management equipment.
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
Diabetes Management and Treatment a fast evolving subject and we follow the latest research to provide patients with the most up to date information and resources.
Spoke Placements
Dietician
Podiatry
Ward T3
Ward T4
Pump Clinics
Antenatal clinics
Additional Information
This is a unique opportunity to see the management of this chronic condition with is prevalent in a modern society.