Radiologists guide

A guide for radiologists working at Nightingale

Finding the Radiology Department

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How to get to the Imaging Department.pdf

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How to find the radiology department

Rule of thumb: follow the white arrows and head for Hall M.

Don't forget to sign in at the Staff Entrance and sign out at the end of your shift.

Radiology

IT

Workstation and Wifi login details can be found at the Radiology Reception.

Personal AGFA, CRIS and ICE login details are the same as those at Harrogate District Hospital.

Protocols

All Trusts using the Nightingale site will be working to the Yorkshrie Imaging Collaborative CT Protocol Book (Tolan D - February 2020 edition). A printed version of this can be found at the workstation.

Contrast

Contrast is prescribed by hand on a paper prescription chart. An example of a completed prescription chart can be found at the workstation. Omnipaque 350 volumes are determined by weight and are in the protocol book (also, see table below). Patient weight and allergy history will be taken on arrival. The up-to-date eGFR will be recorded on the printed scan request form.

Prescription Chart Checklist

• Patient identifiers (Name, DoB, NHS number)

• Allergy history

• Patient weight

• eGFR

• Prescribe volume of Omnipaque to be infused

• Prescribe normal saline flush (100ml of 0.9% NaCl)

Omnipaque 350 Volume by Body Weight

Weight (Kg)	Volume (mL)
<50	60
50 - 59	70
60 - 69	80
70 - 79	90
80 - 89	100
90 - 99	110
>100	120

Comfort

Lunch Break

The scanner pauses for lunch break at 12:30 before resuming the afternoon session tests at 13:00 (patient on scanner for 13:15)

This leaves just enough time to make it to...

Food/Drink Ideas

You do not need to sign out to leave the site temporarily for lunch as long as you intend to return.

All COVID-19 adjusted opening times for nearby open eateries were correct as of 04/06/2020.

Cafe Nero

08:00 - 17:00, 7 days a week.

Currently offering free coffee (and probably all hot drinks) to NHS staff on production of an NHS ID badge.

Directions:

• Leave via the patient entrance.

• Head up the Parliament Street hill (over the crossroads) up to the war memorial opposite Betty's.

• Cafe Nero is on the left, practically next-door to NatWest.

Baltzersen's Coffee Shop

10:00 - 16:00, 7 days a week.

Food and coffee.

Directions:

• Leave via the patient entrance.

• Head up the Parliament Street hill (over the crossroads), halfway up the hill take the road on the left at the traffic lights.

• Keep going straight past McDonalds. The coffee shop is on the left.

M & S

Mon - Sat 08:00 - 18:00, Sun 10:30 - 16:30.

Foodhall.

A bit further along the pedestrianised road from Baltzersen's Coffee Shop.