EMSE 1146 - Advanced Assessment, Communication and Documentation

1. Clinical Decision Making
   1. Influencing factors
   2. Patient presentations
   3. Cornerstone of critical thinking
2. Documentation
   1. Report writing
   2. General considerations
   3. Electronic documentation
   4. Document revision
3. EMS Communications Systems
   1. Methodology
   2. Components
   3. Regulation
   4. Dispatch
   5. Procedures
   6. Team dynamics
   7. Verbal qualities
4. EMS System Communication
   1. Communication with healthcare professionals
   2. Team communication and dynamics
5. History Taking
   1. Component of the patient history
   2. Interviewing techniques in EMS
   3. Integration of therapeutic communication techniques based on findings and presentation
6. Patient Assessment
   1. General impression
   2. LOC
   3. ABCs
   4. Vital signs
   5. Life-threats
   6. Body systems
   7. Bariatrics
   8. Anatomical regions
   9. Patient care skills
   10. Reassessment
7. Scene Size-up
   1. Scene management
   2. Environmental impact on patient care
   3. Hazards
   4. Violence
   5. Scene stabilization
   6. Security
   7. Multiple patient situations
8. Techniques of Physical Examination
   1. Assessment
   2. Cardiovascular exam
   3. Examination skills
   4. Infants and children
   5. Appearance and demeanor

1. demonstrate the primary and secondary assessment for medical and trauma patients.
2. demonstrate a comprehensive patient examination.
3. demonstrate the importance of empathy when obtaining a health history.
4. demonstrate the assessment of the head, neck, chest, abdomen, back, and extremities.
5. describe the techniques of obtaining a patient history.
6. identify the components of a comprehensive history of an adult patient.
7. describe common hazards found at the emergency scene.
8. describe the use of facilitation, reflection, clarification, empathetic responses, confrontation, and interpretation.
9. apply the principles of medical documentation and report writing.
10. demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively through electronic media.
11. describe the components of the ongoing assessment.
12. describe the phases of communications in emergency care situations.
13. differentiate between critical life threatening, potentially life threatening, and non life-threatening patient presentations.
14. evaluate scene size-up.

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