HSS

General Expectations:

Call: Two calls, one weekday, one weekend

Didactics: You present one journal club, 10-15 min presentation

Schedule: Expect to get your schedule ~2-4 weeks before starting your rotation. You can request specific calls by emailing the Cornell Chiefs, if need be.

Contacts: Mary Hargett is the coordinator for the program

Call Responsibilities:

We take two calls while at HSS for a month, one weekday and one Saturday.

• For your weekday, report at 4:30PM to PACU bay 1 to start rounding with the team. Weekday call ends at 8AM, start rounding in the OSCU (5th floor, connected with 'Step Down Unit' which you can follow the signs to)
• For your weekend, report at ***.

An attending will be in-house with you overnight, but they sleep in the building across the street.

Signing out PACU patients

• You will be given a phone with an app called 'PerfectServe' on it, which is similar to epic message or CORUS.
• Every time a patient is ready to be signed out, you'll get a message from that nurse
• You do not have to see the patient, simply go to the patient in Epic and put in the PACU discharge eval
• The fastest way to get ahead of these messages is to go to:
  • All Status Boards (upper border menu) > All Areas PACU board > look at the two columns towards the end, Post Note and DC Order. If DC order has a checkmark, and post note has '!!' then the patient is ready for PACU discharge eval to be written.
  • From this board, right click on the patient > Post Signout > Addendum > fill out the note by clicking 'normal patient' > sign, and then your job is done!

Covering patients

• On Saturday, we cover 3 units: the PACU boarders, the Step-Down Unit (SDU) and the OSCU. On weekdays, we usually just cover SDU + OSCU depending on PA coverage.
• Only write notes on patients who are new or have significant events.
  • Notes with template can be found by opening the patient's chart by clicking 'rounding' while highlighting the patient > 'rounding' tab > OSCU tab > write in NoteWriter