Goals:
To fulfill our vision we should have clear goals and bring activities and systems into place to reach those goals. The following are important:
- Situational leadership and individual behaviour
- Developing a unit built on trust and respect including appropriate role modeling.
- Ensuring that high levels of professionalism exist in the unit.
- Development of the multi-disciplinary team principle.
- Administrative goals
- Ensuring that all aspects of personnel management (including but not limited too – recruitment, appraisal systems, leave, call rosters, administrative management of RWOPS etc.) are dealt with. This includes all medical staff and the perfusionists working in the unit.
- That regular administrative unit meetings are held.
- That communication in the unit and with referring units is strengthened.
- Academic goals
- Ensuring that undergraduate teaching timetables and delegation of teaching duties are managed.
- Developing an appropriate and equitable registrar rotation.
- Developing an adequate registrar teaching programme.
- Ensuring that appropriate CPD activities, academic meetings and society meetings are attended and maintaining active participation.
- Clinical goals
- Monitoring clinical standards and addressing deficiencies (including robust M&M and adequate clinical audit).
- Planning activities of the cardiothoracic unit effectively (this includes a weekly multi-disciplinary planning meeting).
- Co-ordinating theatre, ICU, ward and high care activities and ensuring optimal utilization of resources and time.
- Ensuring that close working relationships between cardiothoracic surgery, anaesthesia, intensive care and cardiology are maintained.
- Managing the cardiothoracic surgery waiting lists.
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