Urgent Bite 250 – Swiss Cheese and Professor Reason
Professor James Reason was the originator of the Swiss Cheese model which has been an important model in developing ways to improve patient safety and reduce adverse events in healthcare.
Urgent Bite 249 – Sentinel headaches and SAH
What is a sentinel headache before a SAH and could they help us pick up earlier on a diagnosis in urgent care?
Urgent Bite 248 – Grommet extrusion time
How long do grommets take to fall out?
Urgent Bite 247 – The Vertebral Artery Dissection
You might think that neck pain after minor trauma is probably a musculoskeletal injury. But do not forget to consider vertebral artery dissection.
Urgent Bite 246 – The Holstein-Lewis Fracture
Look out for the Holstein-Lewis Fracture which is associated with radial nerve injury. Also, be aware of the torsional forces associated with arm wrestling.
Urgent Bite 245 – Neurapraxia
It is important to check peripheral neurology after trauma. Neurapraxia, with an o, is one cause of altered sensation.
Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Setting
This two-day course is run by the University of Auckland and is designed for everyday clinical educators working across a variety of disciplines. It covers facilitating small group learning, planning tutorials, supervising clinical students, using feedback, remediating professionalism lapses, teaching cultural safety and assessing mini-cex. It will be an ideal course for urgent care supervisors…
DPD update January 2025
Welcome to the first DPD newsletter of 2025. Happy New Year. The College is forming the Urgent Care Research Network. This will be a voluntary network of urgent care clinicians interested in research and aims to result in increased urgent care specific research being published. Within the urgent care community, there are clinicians with experience…
Urgent Care Research Network
The Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care is establishing an Urgent Care Research Network to bring together anyone with an interest in all aspects connected to research in the urgent care field. It is hoped that by connecting people who share a common interest in developing urgent care research we will be able to…
Urgent Bite 244 – Is it a Fracture or a Break?
Are your patients aware that a fracture is the same as a break? Do they think that one is worse than the other?