MEERKATS

Medical Emergencies: Evaluation, Response and Keeping Attention on Team Communication and Patient Safety

Please click on any of the above three courses for more specific information.

MEERKATS is a set of educational programmes aimed at nursing shift leaders, junior and senior medical staff and HCA’s. It combines the essential elements of patient safety with good practice in communication and recognition and management of the acutely unwell patient.

All participants in simulation-based team training courses like above learn together, reflect together and discuss together in teams similar to the ones that deliver health care on the wards. Simulation courses include senior and junior doctors, nursing shift leaders, medical students and health care assistants working as part of the multi-dynamic team. Learners participate in the simulation exercises in their normal clinical role and work in realistic clinical teams communicating across a ward and two side rooms.

Simulation scenarios and content emphasis are based on audits of calls to the hospital at night teams with specific learning objectives aligned to the Trust’s priorities as  follows:

• Recognising the deteriorating adult, treatment and escalation.
• Involving participants from various backgrounds (medical, surgical, A&E,) and observing the interactions within the multidisciplinary team with a focus on TEAM SAFETY & RESILIENCE
• Observing the adherence to safety systems & protocols (sepsis six, EWS recording & reporting etc)

  

  PLEASE ENROLL SHIFT LEADERS & HCAs by contacting simulation.admin@stgeorges.nhs.uk

  Please copy and paste the below table into your email software and populate ALL fields to reserve a booking. Without the relevant information we will not confirm your booking.

  Date	Title	Full Name	Profession	Band	Ward

  Please find the dates available by Ward Below.

  MEDICAL STAFF WILL BE ALLOCATED SESSIONS BY YOUR POST-GRAD CO-ORDINATOR IN EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT

  Please refer to the allocation before booking

  Ward Allocations According To Rotation Of CCLP

  Where possible, keep to the blocks that have been allocated.

  Tuesday               26th September 2017 Wednesday        27th September 2017 Thursday             28th September 2017 Monday               23rd October 2017 Tuesday               24th October 2017 Wednesday        25th October 2017 Monday               30th October 2017 Wednesday        15th November 2017 Monday               20th November 2017 Wednesday        22nd November 2017	Richmond Amyand Allingham Rodney Smith Marnham
  Thursday             23rd November 2017 Wednesday        13th December 2017 Monday               18th December 2017 Tuesday               2nd January 2018 Wednesday        3rd January 2018 Tuesday               9th January 2018	Florence Nightingale Cavell Gray Vernon Keate
  Wednesday        10th January 2018 Monday               15th January 2018 Tuesday               16th January 2018 Wednesday        17th January 2018 Thursday             18th January 2018 Monday               22nd January 2018	All other Acute Clinical Wards
  Tuesday               23rd January 2018 Wednesday        24th January 2018 Monday               29th January 2018 Friday                    9th February 2018 Monday               19th February 2018 Tuesday               20th February 2018	All other Acute Clinical Wards
  Wednesday        21st February 2018 Thursday             22nd February 2018 Monday               26th February 2018 Tuesday               27th February 2018 Wednesday        28th February 2018 Thursday             1st March 2018	All other Acute Clinical Wards
  Friday                 2nd March 2018 Monday              19th March 2018 Tuesday              27th March 2018 Wednesday        28th March 2018 Wednesday        4th April 2018 Monday              23rd April 2018	All other Acute Clinical Wards
  Tuesday               1st May 2018 Monday               14th May 2018 Wednesday        16th May 2018 Tuesday               29th May 2018 Monday               25th June 2018 Wednesday        27th June 2018	All other Acute Clinical Wards

  *  The blocks are targeted at ward areas though are not limited to only those wards. Eg if a staff member is on annual leave then we will accommodate them on the nearest possible date, irrespective of which block it may fall in. Please be aware though that the course will have some specialty specific slant to them ie. Surgical, medical. The skills we are developing across the profession are transferable across specialty but the analytical discussions about practice would lend itself to working with likeminded staff from similar clinical specialties