Video: Trauma Patient Assessment

by on April 9, 2011

in Video Tips

Questions:

1. Is making a video like this a good way to learn and review the NREMT patient assessment skill?

2. Is watching a video like this a good way to review trauma patient assessment?

3. How do we transfer the skills learned and practiced in this static environment to a dynamic real patient assessment?


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Tagged as: NREMT, Patient Assessment, Skill Practice, Trauma, Video

  • mark

    I hate this. People memorize a step by step verbalized assessment and think they can handle a patient.

    I am a BLS field training officer, and I always act out all simulations. To the best of my ability, I try to present real situations. If I’m prone, they need to actually roll me. If they want vitals, they need to take them. A proctor will tell you what my eyes look like, bug only after you notice that MY eyes are pearl.

    You can still do this step by step assessment, but I don’t allow the verbalization of anything except inspection of the privates. Actually touching and actual use of skills. I have never seen an EMT verbalize an 87 yr old grandmother off the floor of her bathroom after an unwitnessed fall of unknown time where she is wrapped around the toilet. Do the skills to know the skills

    • http://everydayemstips.com Greg Friese

      I am not a big fan of this approach to learning and practicing patient assessment either. It is good preparation for passing a test, but not necessarily assessing actual patients. If you are good at assessing actual patients the test will be a breeze.

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