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GP Stage 3 Written Prioritisation Exercise 10

You are a surgical SHO faced with the following tasks, prior to your mandatory teaching in one hour.

A. You are due to present a case during mandatory teaching later this afternoon. Whilst reviewing your presentation this morning, you noticed two              factual inaccuracies which you have yet to correct.
B. A patient with a suspected appendicitis requires booking on the emergency surgery list.
C. One of your patients is due to have a laproscopic cholecystectomy very shortly. Hospital procedure requires all operative patients to have ‘just-in-          case’ blood requested from haematology prior to surgery. Unfortunately this has yet to be done for this patient.
D. A ward nurse has called you about a post-operative patient who is reporting severe pain.
E. Two long-term patients, one of whom has been on the ward for three months are due to be discharged tomorrow. Unfortunately, the patient                     discharge letters have yet to be started.
 
1. Rank the issues in the order in which you intend to deal with them  

2. Justify your decisions and describe what actions you would take

3. ​Answer the following three questions
  1. What did you find challenging?
  2. What did you learn about yourself?
  3. How will you apply what you have learnt?