Acronym for Effective Signouts
Senior residents: you must observe your interns method for signouts at least twice a rotation and provide constructive feedback afterwards. Additionally, you are responsible for signing out all sick patients to the on call senior.
It is stongly encouraged for interns and seniors to identify sick and new patients and consider joint evaluation at bedside during signouts.
SIGNOUT?
o S: Is this patient particularly Sick or DNR
o I: Identifying data and demographic info about patient
o G: General hospital course for the patient
o N: New events or occurrences of the day
o O: Overall Health status
o U: Upcoming possibilities and things to watch for
o T: Tasks that need to be completed prior to next handoff
o ?: Any questions?
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