Sorry to bother with this one, but searching for information about your own profession sometimes comes up surprisingly blank!
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Here's the problem:
Setting up a surgical team for foot and ankle surgery. Surgeon is an orthopaedic surgeon, but we want scrub nurse role, 1st assistant and pre- and post-op care to be done by Podiatrists not nurses.
The 1st assistant role is covered by NAASP qualifications and competencies, but the pre and post-op bits (e.g. identifying post-op emergencies and taking blood pressure, knowing when to request for bloods, x-rays etc) is being disputed.
The dispute is that Podiatrists are not qualified to do this, only registered nurses (and medics) are......
Having filled that role in a Pod Surgery team myself, I thought it would be easy to point to Podiatric scope of practice / qualifications to demonstrate that, indeed we are competent to do this...........until you actually look for evidence of this!
Having looked at the Society Website and HPC website, I can't find any evidence to back up my own knowledge of what I can and can't competently do professionally. Does anyone know of any info that may help us in this respect?
Any info would, quite literally, save me such a huge headache!
Thanks!
Nicola
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