Ward
17
ACUTE CARDIOLOGY WARD
Nurse's Station - 8900 & 8519
Ward Clerk/ Doctor's Office - 5027 & 5019
Fax - 5020, Sister's Office - 5036, Staff Resource Room - 5034
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Ward 17 is an acute cardiology ward located on the ground floor of the orange zone which provides experience in invasive techniques in addition to the more traditional medical cardiology.
Ward 17 has been newly refurbished and opened in September 2002 with 12 monitored beds and 12 Telemetry facilities. As a tertiary referral centre, a large proportion of our client group are received from DGH’s throughout the North West as well as transfers from CCU and medical wards. Invasive procedures taken include:
As well as the “high tech” cardiology experience found on the ward, we also admit patients with heart failure and bacterial endocarditis requiring a longer stay with us. This provides a good balance with the high throughput of patients requiring more invasive procedures. |
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Staff development at every grade is of a high priority on Ward 17. We are supported by a dedicated staff development nurse who facilitates the educational needs of our nursing team, working one-to-one with individuals, as well as organising teaching programmes on the ward. Regular appraisals are undertaken of all staff with ample opportunity available for further study. As well as in-house training courses available, we presently have staff undertaking ENB 124 (Coronary Care), ENB 928 (Diabetes) courses as well as completing HDU, diploma and degree level studies.
There is ample opportunity to develop your teaching skills as we regularly have nursing students from the University allocated to the ward. We also recognise the important role undertaken by CSWs on the ward and we have a number of staff undertaking the Foundation Degree Programme.
Staff on Ward 17 have forged close links with other areas in the Heart Centre through the rotation programme. We are an enthusiastic team and encourage staff to become link workers for infection control, diabetes, health and safety, manual handling, as well as within the ICU outreach team. We promote evidence-based care and work closely with other areas on clinical benchmarking.
We are a busy ward. However, we do recognise the need for a social life. We can offer family-friendly working contracts and give staff the opportunity to self-roster the night-duty rota.
This is an exciting time for Ward 17. Due to service expansion, we intend to increase our bed numbers from 16-24 beds from April 2003. Future developments will also include the introduction of day-case angioplasty and a cardiology HDU bed on Ward17. In order to take this development forward we will require more dedicated staff to join our team.
For further information, contact Linda Whitehead/Vicki Entwistle, Acting Senior Sisters: 0161 276 8900
Contacts
Name
Role
Ext
Email
Bleep
Mobile
Fax
Gillian Brennan
Ward Clerk
8900 
Karen May
Nurse
5036
Linda Whitehead
Acting Senior Sister
8900/5036
Michelle Carville
Senior Sister
8900
Vicki Entwistle
Senior Sister
8900/5036
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