1. Hungry Angry Late Tired HALT Human performance dips when
Managing your own performance
Healthcare professionals – we get that to enable our brain and body to be healthy or to heal from illness needs
Nutrition
Calm (low stress)
Time
Sleep
IGNORE that this is also true for performance – we don’t perform at our best HALT!
DRAW performance verses hours awake graph
Add in units of alcohol scale and mark legal drive limit on it
Story tell .. My bad day … my poor clinical decision … impact on child and team
CAN CONTROL these factors
… medicines rounds at lunch time CRITICAL SAFETY TASK – potential for harm if you do not pick up on some ones else's error or make one yourself
Takes just 5 minutes to PREPARE to PERFORM
Ask yourself – do I need to eat a snack /drink / visit the toilet / sit down / have a power nap
This is not permission to slack off … its about making sure you take the breaks you are given
Hero Culture …you are not a HERO when you work on through without taking care of yourself, quite the opposite, you are putting your own health and wellbeing and the CYPs at risk !
If you really don’t have time to take your whole break you ALWAYS have 5minutes … Except in an emergency DRUGS can wait 5min