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I'm Sunita.
I'm going to be talking today about how I used DCP in my day-to-day consulting.
I find DCP most helpful even before I have called the patient in.
I can see who I am calling in today:
what I need to prioritise in terms of what I [need to] accomplish today,
what I might be able to delegate to the practice team,
and what recalls they might be due for some time soon.
I can see that we have an 18-year-old patient
this morning who is of Aboriginal background.
She is obviously filled in our automated clinical update sheet,
which tells me that she is currently
a non-smoker and she has updated her family history
to include high blood pressure in both parents.
Currently living at home with parents, and with the recalls
that she has due, it seems that a review of her Asthma
and a Skin Lesion might be the most urgent, and PAP Smear
I might need to get her back for to do on a different day.
She might not have already had the flu vaccine
which is relevant this time of year, particularly
in terms of her asthma as well and it might have
been some time since we last did her Asthma Plan.
If I put it together, I can get our Nurse to go through it with the patient.
My common practice is to defer the Blood Pressure in the percentile measurements,
and some of the Asthma Education to our nurses when they do the Flu Injection.
We may or may not have time for that Spirometry today,
but some assessment of Asthma would go a long way to making sure she remains well.
When I get her back for the PAP Smear, I am going to
have to do Chlamydia check at the same time as well.
If I get time at the end of the consult, I might briefly mention
opening up one of the health records for herself.
She might be interested in viewing her Medical Summary at home.
She has not had her ATSI Health Assessment in the last 12 months.
Neither her she had the Asthma Cycle of Care completed.
So perhaps today we can go some way towards that, and then get it back a
different day to complete the Health Check, and the Spirometry and PAP Smear.