PRACTICE PROFILE
Area
Cardiac Investigation Unit
Location
Contact Number
St. Mary’s Hospital – Newport – Isle of
Wight – PO30 5TG
Directorate
Acute
Professional Lead
Sharon Sherwood
Annual Review of Profile
due
Department Manager
01983 552182
February 2016
Sharon Sherwood
Sharon.sherwood@iow.nhs.uk
Education Lead
Education Lead Contact Details
HEI Representative
Sharon Sherwood
As above
HEI’s using this Learning Environment
Learning Environment Mission Statement
UoS and UoP
The Patient is at the heart of everything that we do
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PROFILE
General Information
University contact Isabel Anton-Solanas [I.AntonSolanas@soton.ac.uk] - Practice Academic Liaison Lead
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Description of Service and Client Group
We provide a high quality cardiac investigation service to meet the needs
of the local population. This involves in patients and out patients and an
in -patient ambulatory service. We provide this service predominantly to
the adult population; however, some paediatric investigations are carried
out too.
Description of related services & Client
group
CCU, Heart Failure and Rehabilitation Teams, caring for patients with cardiac
abnormalities
LEARNER INFORMATION
Work Pattern (Start, finish times)
9am – 5pm with half an hour lunch break.
Dress Code
University photo ID to be worn at all times on placement, UoS Student uniform in
conjunction with IOW NHS Trust dress code policy (insert link)
Induction/Orientation programme
Organisational induction by CET followed by local induction within clinical area
Staff / rest room facilities
Central canteen used for meals. Tea making facilities available, on a pay as you
go basis.
Expectations during placement
To develop a background knowledge of tests undertaken in the
department
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES & RESOURCES
Recommended reading/Websites
Available in the placement setting
Common Abbreviations
All working part and these will be taught in your clinical practice.
Specific learning opportunities
ECGs, Echoes, Exercise tolerance testing pacemaker implantation and follow up, 24
hour ECG analysis
Specific areas of expertise/clinical
skills
Common Assessments /
Cardiac assessment and investigations
ECG, 24 hour BP, Exercise Testing, Echocardiograms, pacemaker implantation and follow up.
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Interventions/Care pathways
Models of practice experience e.g
Hub and Spoke, Care pathways,
Patient Journeys
Myocardial Infarction, Arrhythmias, Structural heart disease, stroke
Hub and spoke – Heart failure, rehabilitation, rapid access chest pain clinic,
consultant cardiology clinics
MULTIAGENCY LEARNING OPPERTUNITIES / RESOURCES
Multiprofessional learners accessing Registrar Cardiologists, Echo Training Students, Medical students, 6th Form
the environment
work experience
Professionals working in the
Cardiac Physiologists, Heart failure nurse, Consultant Cardiologists, HCSW
environment
Opportunities to meet EU directives
(Nursing)
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