Outpatients – Western Health Orthopaedic Department

Contact

Adult Specialist Clinics
Enquires: 03 8345 6490
Fax: 03 8345 6856

Bone Phone: 0478 853 527

Children’s Specialist Clinics
Enquiries: 03 8345 1727
Fax: 03 9055 2125

Every Tuesday, all-day, at Footscray Hospital, level 1 outpatients.
Occurs alongside post-op wound clinic (run by HMOs) in the morning and then in isolation in the PM
Attended by all registrars (unless attending a list) and free HMOs in the afternoon
Normally 140-200 patients per day
Can refer directly to physiotherapy “walk-in” clinic

Every Monday (supervised by Mr Harris) and Thursday (supervised by Mr Johnson) mornings, at Joan-Kirner Hospital, ground level outpatients
Attended by all registrars (unless attending a list) and rostered HMOs (Sunshine + Williamstown)

Every Friday morning at Footscray Hospital, level 1 outpatients.
Rooms predominantly taken by consultants
Registrars to assist consultants in seeing their patients (if rooms are free), sit in with a consultant (if rooms are not free), and complete triaging.
Whichever registrar presents x-ray meeting on Friday morning will go to Clinic D at 10am to see 1-2 patients with hip OA as part of the THA approach RCT recruitment.
One HMO will be allocated to go to Clinic D to complete campus suitability assessment for patients who are going on the waiting list for a joint replacement.

Open EMR, BossNET, and Synapse
Picked up a patient’s stickers from the box
On Ambulatory organiser, make the patient “In room” and click your room onto their name
Write EMR notes under the appropriate note type: “Orthopaedic Outpatient note” or “Ortho – Fracture outpatient note” or “Ortho – Paeds Fracture Outpatient note”
Order appropriate imaging request, tech orders, and follow-up as required on EMR
On Ambulatory organiser, “Check out” the patient and either discharge or organiser appointment at a later date (Note: if booking a patient for surgery, they will be ‘discharged’ on EMR)

Every patient will have Bradmas stickers printed on check in and placed in the box at the back of clinic in order of attendance.

Registrars will triage new GP referrals to fracture clinic and consultant clinics
Advanced practice physiotherapists will triage new internal Western Health referrals to fracture clinic or consultant clinic if the registrar has already given a plan for the patient