A four credit hour course applicable to an Associate of Applied Science in Emergency Medical Services. The student focuses on relating Patient Assessment findings to normal and abnormal structure and function in traumatic and medical patients in the Pre-Hospital setting.
Information gathering is considered an integral part of the assessment process.
Communicating assessment findings to other care givers is studied and practiced. List the assessment components for a medical patient. Describe the differences between the assessment of a trauma and a medical patient. Perform a complete patient assessment on a trauma patient. Perform a complete patient assessment on a medical patient.