MedBugs: SAQ #562

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Case: Impaired colleague

You are the acute consultant who has just sent home your resus consultant colleague who was found injecting fentanyl in the trauma room by yourself. Your colleague has a history of anxiety and depression and has seemed “not themselves” recently. They are well supported at home and, with consent, you contacted the colleague’s partner who has collected and taken them home.

1. List (4) important actions you will now undertake 4 marks

2. What regulatory body would you contact and on what grounds? 2 marks

3. List (4) types of concerns which trigger mandatory reporting of a practitioner. 4 marks

4. In general terms, when considering reporting and the risk a practitioner may pose to the public, how is this “risk” assessed? 2 marks

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Case: Impaired colleague

1. List (4) important actions you will now undertake 4 marks

2. What regulatory body would you contact and on what grounds? 2 marks

3. List (4) types of concerns which trigger mandatory reporting of a practitioner. 4 marks

4. In general terms, when considering reporting and the risk a practitioner may pose to the public, how is this “risk” assessed? 2 marks

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