Maria Adams
@MariaAd60025587
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Working as Governance Manager for Endoscopy and Gastroscopy and loving every minute. I'm also a wife, mother and a crazy shark lady!
Joined October 2019
Had a near miss in the OR recently. Patient with same name as a different patient. Almost put the wrong artificial lens in a patient's eye, but I called out the wrong birth date during the time out, the circulating nurse caught it, spoke up, and we avoided disaster.
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Moving from judgement to compassion, a curious self question when encountering angry behaviour - "I wonder what's going on for this person?" @WEDoOD_UHP @ClaireUnderdown @lisa_white33 @StevenKeithNHS @UHP_NHS
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Our commitment to education and training has continued throughout the coronavirus pandemic. As part of that, next month medics and surgeons from around the world will be able to watch live surgery streamed from the QEQM hospital. Read more: https://t.co/4HTEUcWNYN
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If you were near the Kent and Canterbury Hospital at the weekend you may have noticed some rather large vehicles - they were there to lift the first sections of four new operating theatres into position. You can read more about the project here: https://t.co/JI97CEPgxP
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Join our ITU team today as a Registered Nurse in Critical Care:
An additional eight-bed Intensive Treatment Unit has been opened as part of preparations for winter and rising coronavirus cases. The unit, at the William Harvey Hospital, features state-of-the-art technology. Find out more: https://t.co/IgBvK3RmEC
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This is a fantastic example of why instructions need to be thought out in a clear step by step fashion. This is true for health are as well as autism.
Today Year 2 learnt the importance of making instructions really clear and easy to follow. Who knew making a jam sandwich would be so difficult?🤷🏼♀️🥪 #instructions #Year2
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Staff have worked incredibly hard throughout the pandemic to care for patients. Your care & safety remains our priority. We have ➡️Trained staff with PPE ➡️Additional checks for cleaning, hand hygiene & PPE ➡️Strengthened policies ➡️Physical changes to support social distancing
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Want to understand more about Human Factors? Last minute availability x3 on 22/10 @EKHUFT @EKHUFTsos @melindabrew0615 @selenam738 @EKHUFTLandD @longre @telroo1 contact me for info 🙂
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I will be there for anyone 365 days 24/7. I'd rather be woke up in the middle of the night because you need to talk than informed later of your suicide. You matter!!!
I’ll be there for you https://t.co/kI8aMXgMgm
@WMHDay @EKHUFTsos @longre @bartonjulie1 @Hstarlingcass
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We are proud to support the #TransRightsAreHumanRights commitment, in solidarity with our trans and non-binary colleagues and patients. We support you, we value you. 🏳️⚧️ Find out more.
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Stonewall, Britain’s leading lesbian, gay bi and trans equality charity, announced that 136 major UK companies have come together in a show of support for…
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Had a brush with death yesterday! I am fine people and I thank you in advance for your kind well wishes.
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Black box thinking: essential concept to understand what has gone wrong. White box thinking: a complementary approach, to understand success. Success / excellence is not necessary the opposite of failure.
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We are going to be wearing masks for sometime We are all in this pandemic together, but we are also on this planet together with wildlife already on the brink Discarded masks can kill wildlife Dispose of masks responsibly or better yet, get a reusable one 🙏
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Suicide is not the solution. It may not be tomorrow, but, there will be a brighter day. @allontheboard
#WorldSuicidePreventionDay #WSPD2020 #Suicide #SuicidePrevention
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This guy is hilarious. Read both books and watched him on tour. Can't wait to see how good this book is.
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1) To be safe to speak up without fear of reprisal 2) For staffing levels to be actually addressed 3) Easy access to mental health support services in a time sensitive manner #WorldPatientSafetyDay @MariaAd60025587 @karanTscrivener @WendyLingRelph
What 3 things do health and care staff need to feel physically or mentally safe at work? Please share and help us get 1,000 replies by #WorldPatientSafetyDay on 17 September (this year's theme is staff safety) #WPSD2020 #WPSD #staffsafety #patientsafety
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As a gastrointestinal oncologist I cannot begin to tell you how many young patients I’ve seen with incurable #coloncancer after being told they had hemorrhoids without a rectal exam, or irritable bowel syndrome without a colonoscopy #ripChadwick & may we learn from this #crcsm
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