ABSTRACT

Imagine that you have just started work on a new ward. You have been given a verbal report for all 32 patients and your head is full of medical terms and abbreviations that no one has had the time to explain to you. All of the regular ward staff are busy elsewhere and you have no idea what you are supposed to be doing. Do you …

2. Refer to a scrappy piece of paper from your pocket, full of hastily written notes that you made during the report, in an attempt to work out what care each patient requires?