Our Department
Resuscitation Area - 2 fully equipped resuscitation bays
Acute Area - 8 beds & 1 negative pressure isolation room
Fast Track - 2 chairs, 2 beds, plaster room, procedure room, eye room. High flow area, quick(ish) issues, pt likely to be d/c.
ED Short Stay Unit - 4 beds. Admission criteria are: 1) an emergency physician thinks it is a sensible idea; 2) adequate clinical work-up has occurred; 3) anticipated LOS is <24hrs
Securing your belongings
A set of lockers lives outside the staff tea room (in between the 5 person offices and the critical meeting room. Find a spare one, put in a pin and stash your stuff. Some lockers have regular users but there are plenty of spare.
Alternatively, other people put their stuff under the desks in the 5-person office, tea room or in the fish bowl.
CALLing IN SICK
Call the duty consultant phone & speak with the duty consultant or the night SMP
Email AlbanyEDHOD@health.wa.gov.au
Please give as much notice as you can to allow staffing changes if needed
Booking LEAVE
Decide on what leave you want as early as possible.
Complete the attached “L1 Leave Doctors EForm”.
NOTE: DON’T use the “Email for Approval” button
Instead, save the form once you’ve completed it, ATTACH it to an email, and send it to:
ahc.medicalleave@health.wa.gov.auIt will then be forwarded by Medical Admin to the relevant HoD for consideration and further HSS processing, etc
albany critical care polo shirts
Go to Barefoot Clothing on Lockyer Avenue.
Tell them you want an Albany Critical Care shirt and they will sort you out. Expect to wait at least 3 weeks for it to be ready.