I have recently reviewed and updated my antibiotic prescribing protocol so I thought I would share it here.
I created a protocol for prescribing antibiotics about 5 years ago because we didn't have one in the practice and an audit suggested we were often prescribing them unnecessarily at the time. Since then there has been a lot more in the press about making sure we are only prescribing antibiotics appropriately to minimise the impact of potential adverse reactions and the long term concerns over AB resistance. If you are using a protocol like this rather than reaching for your BNF then you need to review it regularly to ensure the information is correct. I believe the information in mine does reflect all the relevant advice in the BNF but if you happen to find anything out of place please feel free to contact me so that I can amend it. If you wish to download mine rather than write out your own, it can be found via my google drive: http://www.drchrisharper.co.uk/useful-resources.html
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I thought I would just share this video of a new technology being developed. If they can get it to work like it is shown here it could be a game changer. As discussed in a previous post, I have decided to do a quick summary of my main activities and learning points each month. By creating this summary it helps me to reflect on my learning and might help to point others in the direction of posts they may have missed. In March I have:
Read 1) How to be a productivity ninja - A truly revolutionary book that has already had a massive impact on my day to day life. I have got rid of my old to do lists and adopted the google keep app instead. I also now deliberately set aside time for daily and weekly planning. 2) A Practical Guide to Mentoring - A useful little summary of this topic for anybody considering wanting to teach or mentor others. Listened to 1) Extreme Ownership - A very interesting business/leadership book from the perspective of Navy Seals. 2) A couple of Harvard Business review books mainly talking about how to creat value/profit in different ways. Some of this inspired me to write my post about how I have increased my private turnover. 3) Podcasts by Dental Hacks, The dental guys, Dentalpreneur, Life and Dentistry (a new podcast created by dental students). I have also enjoyed some non dental listening time with podcasts by Gary Vaynerchuk, Tony Robbins, The infinite Monkey Cage. Attended 1) An Optident/Dentinal Tubules workshop on sectional matrices. From this I have discovered some lovely new composite polishers 2) A meeting with my financial consultant from Wesleyan who manage my pension planning and income protection policies. Although I knew I didn't need to make any changes to any of my planning or policies I find that having a meeting planned helps me to consider my finances regularly which is a very important thing to do. I have really enjoyed sharing quite a few more of my original ideas in my blog this month regarding: Diary zoning Modifying your loupes Best iPad apps Post op instructions New pt packs I have also created a YouTube page to allow me to creat the odd video tip. The first one being about how to use the adobe fill and sign app for singing consent forms on the iPad. If you want to find out more about any of these points please have a look through my recent blog posts here: http://www.drchrisharper.co.uk |
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