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Chapter 5 - People: Adding Staffing and Training

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2022

John Schumacher  and
Don Melady
John Schumacher
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Don Melady
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

Describes the key roles of a Geriatric ED, the interdisciplinary team, who do the daily work and how they collaborate: physician, nurse care coordinator, physical and occupational therapists, social worker, pharmacist. Describes at length the central role of the nurse care coordinator, including leadership and capacity development. Presents options and opportunities for training and education of those key roles and for the frontline nurses and doctors. Revisits the importance of change champions – nurse, physician, executive – and how to engage them.

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Interdisciplinary teamgeriatric nurse coordinatortrainingeducationchampions
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Creating a Geriatric Emergency Department
A Practical Guide
 , pp. 48 - 62
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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