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Conversing with Other Health Care Practitioners

Conversations between health care practitioners regarding NWHSU patients seen either on campus or at external host sites, must take place between the Supervisor and the conferring health care practitioner.

The procedure to be followed when there is a conversation regarding a NWHSU patient is:

1. The patient must sign a release form giving permission for a NWHSU Supervisor to speak with another health care practitioner concerning the patient’s health condition.
2. The patient is told to invite the other health care practitioner to call the appropriate NWHSU supervisor directly, or the NWHSU clinic to arrange a time for the phone conference.
3. The NWHSU front desk will schedule the call for the beginning of the clinic shift in which the supervisor and intern work. The receptionist notifies the supervisor and the intern via e- mail.
4. The conversation is to take place on speaker phone in the supervisor’s office. The supervisor and intern will call the practitioner at the appointed time. The phone call will be approximately 5 minutes in length.
5. The conversation is to be between the supervisor and the conferring health care practitioner.
6. The intern treating the patient is to be present during the conversation but is not to speak unless asked by the supervisor to speak.
7. The intern is to chart notes of the conversation.