Orientation

Welcome to Waikato DHB

Moving to a new location and starting a new job can be very daunting – where do you start in your search for accommodation, schooling for your children, searching for a job for your partner plus finding answers to all those other questions you have when setting up ‘house’.

We have compiled the ‘Welcome to Waikato’ publication to provide you with helpful information for those who will be commencing employment at Waikato DHB and who will be settling in Hamilton.

• Welcome to Waikato

“Waikato’s RMO Pocketbook (an orientation guide)”

Starting at a new hospital also has its challenges – where to go, who to contact, policies and guidelines, forms to fill out, procedures to follow,  to name but a few. ‘Waikato’s RMO Pocketbook (an Orientation guide)’ was developed to help you with all of this.

This booklet has been written by doctors for doctors and is intended to be a ‘dummy’s’ guide to being an RMO at Waikato DHB; hopefully this pocketbook will give you the basic information you need to get you started and survive on the wards on a day-to-day basis; if there is still anything that you are unsure about, either ask one of your colleagues (as many of them have been here a while) or speak to the RMO Unit.

House officer orientation manual

• House officer orientation manual

Registrar orientation manual

• Registrar orientation manual

PGY1 specific

Clinical attachment/Unit orientation summary sheets

Throughout the year you will be rotating into different clinical attachments (runs); while there is often a ‘service specific’ orientation that is organised at each change-over, often the information about codes for lockers, who does what, the daily work routine etc. are not covered. In previous years we have produced ‘Clinical Attachment Summary Sheets’ – these are being updated to ‘Unit Orientation Summary Sheets’; we have not received all the updates back yet, so this ‘Notice’ has a combination of both documents. However, regardless of format, these documents have been designed to give you that information and to help you ‘find your feet’ in your new clinical attachment / ward /specialty area. It may be helpful to download all four ‘Summary Sheets’ corresponding to where you will be working in 2015-2016 

• Cardiology
• General Surgery
  • ‘Green’ team
  • ‘Blue’ team
  • ‘Orange’ team
• General Medicine
• Haematology
• Mental Health
• Orthopaedics
• Paediatric Surgery
• Plastic Surgery
• Rehabilitation
• Respiratory

Useful publications

• New Zealand Curriculum Framework for Prevocational Medical Training
• Ward orientation
• Wellness plan
• Consensus fluid guidelines
• High-risk medicines
• Laboratory Testing Guidelines
• Anaesthetics
• • Adult Fasting / Nil by mouth Pre-anaesthesia
  • Paediatric Fasting / Nil by mouth Pre-anaesthesia

Training and Education

• PGY1 Training/Formal Education Programme 2015/2016
• PGY2-SHO training/Formal Education Programme 2015/2016

Useful documents

During our PGY1 orientation there is a series of presentations on death certification, patient deaths and medico – legal issues. 

Attached are some relevant documents 

• A guide to certifying causes of death
• Death certification questions - HO orientation

We also invite the District Coroner to this orientation

• When someone dies - a coroner's guide

All RMOs

Administrative forms

As with all organisations there are a number of forms that needs to be completed at various times. 

Just as a familiarisation excercise, these are the forms RMOs will most frequently use. 

• Additional duties and cross cover claim form
• Leave form
• Expense claim form
• Record of death form
• Electronic Special Authority forms (for prescribing)

Finding your way

• Corridor and campus maps
• Meade Clinical Centre survival guide