Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Urgent Care Team |
| Trust | |
| Your Placement Contact | Samantha Lamb and Rebecca Bates – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | PELs |
| Placement Address | 3rd Floor, St James House Pendleton Way Salford M6 5FW |
| Placement City/Town: | Salford |
| Placement Phone | 0161 206 6666 |
| Your University Contact: | Mrs Alison Cavanagh. Registered Nurse / Teacher/ 0161 295 7133 – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
- Introduction to Assessor/Supervisor and wider team
- Induction pack
- Orientation to building/fire procedure
- Security door codes
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
- Assessor and Supervisor will be identified/ allocated prior to the learners arrival.
- Learners should ring or email placement contact the week prior to starting to organize arrangements for the first day of placemen
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Early:
Late:
Night:
Shift Notes:
The service covers 7 days a week and shifts are done as x3 long days
Early: 8:00-20:30
Late: 9:30-22:00
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
- Nursing assessments
- Administration of medications
- Catheter care
- Wound care
- Continence care
- Injections – Subcut, Intramuscular
- Pressure area care
- Care delivery in patient’s home
- Unscheduled patient assessments and interventions
- Subcutaneous fluid administration
- IV therapy
- Venepuncture
- ANTT practice
- Multi-professional patient assessment
- Planned nursing care in partnership with patients
- Liaison with services across Salford e.g. district nurses, pharmacists, GPs
What nursing model is used for planning care?
Orems nursing model to promote patient independence where possible
Roper-Logen-Tierney model to provide a comprehensive assessment which tailors to the service user’s need
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
Assessment and communication with patients, families and inter- professionally.
Opportunistic clinical skills, e.g. wound care, catheter care, continence care, injection technique, e.g. Insulin, tinzaparin.
Risk assessment and management plans
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
Administration of short term home IV antibiotics on the Early Supported Discharge Pathway.
What resources are available to help students learning?
Internet, intranet and scenarios
MDT meetings held on a weekly basis in the office workspace
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
We have on-site trainers providing up-to-date clinical practices to all colleagues e.g. ANTT, Moving and handling
Expanding the Urgent Response Team service by implementing and developing further patient pathways to avoid hospital admission
Hospital at home model/Virtual ward technology
Short term IV therapy at home
Coordination and development of the DVT pathway
Spoke Placements
We encourage students to take spokes available throughout the community to gain further insight and learning into services provided throughout Salford
For example:
District Nurses, Tissue Viability, CAST, Macmillan Nurses, SALT, Dietetics
Additional Information
Due to late night finish times students on this placement must have access to safe transport home.
Any students allocated this placement must email PEFTeam@srft.nhs.uk or ring 0161 206 3210 / 8223 – 6 weeks before placement to confirm they have access to safe transport home.
All the MDT is based in the same office and our workload is largely dependent day to day incoming referrals.