Since all share the room, please insure that you keep it relatively neat and clean. Medications are ordered for patients on a daily basis. All medications, procedures, fluids and the like require a written order in the chart. Please minimize the amount of verbal orders since you will ultimately be required to sign these orders anyway. Ensure that daily chest films are ordered on all patients deemed necessary.
Chest films are to be done in the upright position when at all possible.
Only unstable patients should not be placed in the upright position. A debriefing session is held on the last Friday of each rotation. This luncheon, at noon in the SICU conference room, allows feedback from the resident in regard to their experience during their rotation. Please feel free at any time during the rotation, to bring any comments or questions to any of the SICU Attendings. The medical record should be complete and legible.