Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Ward T4 Acute Medical Ward |
| Trust | |
| Your Placement Contact | Samantha Robinson, Louise Thompson, Zoe Lockley – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | Ward Manager/PEL – Zoe Lockley PELs |
| Placement Address | Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Rd, Oldham, OL1 2JH |
| Placement City/Town: | Oldham |
| Placement Phone | 0161 627 8854 |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
Student Induction and orientation to ward, assign a supervisor, follow their supervisors shifts where possible and enhance the learning environment of acute and general medicine. Student packs with medical abbreviations and drug calculations. To observe, learn and take part in nursing duties.
What are the arrangements for mentors/assessors?
These will be assigned by the ward manager or ward sister
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Shift Notes:
- Early: 07.30 – 15.30
- Late: 12.3 0- 20.30
- Long Day: 07.30 – 20.30
- Night: 20.00 – 08.00
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
Acute Medicine has a vast amount of different specialities:
Dementia, Mental Health, Elderly/Frailty, Gastro, Endocrinology, Cardiac, Respiratory, Step down from ICU. On occasions we can have surgical outliers from Orthopaedics.
What nursing model is used for planning care?
Roper, Logan & Tierney – Activities of daily living, risk assessing
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
Catheterisation, Physiological Observations, ECG, Bladder Scanning
What additional clinical skills can be learnt?
Ng tube placement, NG Feeds
What resources are available to help students learning?
Spoke Placements, Library, Staff and Colleagues, MDT, Doctors
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
Covid Trials with research Nurses,
Virtual Respiratory Ward
Assessment against NAAS in new clinical areas
Spoke Placements
AMU, SDEC, ED, CCU, Bed Management, Pharmacist, OT, Physio, Dieticians, Macmillan, Heart Failure Nurses, Diabetes Specialist Nurse, Night Practitioners, Alcohol Liaison team, pain Team, HDU/ITU