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What are some ways to memorize and acquire the patient assessments?

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  • #1
What'south upwards guys? I was just wondering what are some ways that yous used to memorize and acquire the patient assessments? The initial assessment wasn't to hard to learn just the secondary assessment is going to kick my butt!

These are the steps that I have memorized for the initial cess:

-PPE/BSI
-Hazards/Is the scene safe?
-Number of Patients
-MOI/NOI
-Practise I need additional resources such as police?
-General Impression
-C-spine control
-LOC-AVPU (Level of Consciousness, A&Ox4, Verbal, Hurting, Unresponsive)
-Airway (Clear, Open, Sounds)
-Breathing (RRQ)
-Carotid Pulse (RRQ)
-Radial Pulse (RRQ)
-Skin Characteristics (Colour, Temperature, Moisture)
-Capillary Refill
-External Bleeding
-Send Decision
-Disability (GCS)

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  • #2
txmedic5
Wrote it down almost 2 meg times haha. Just buy a spiral and outset goin at information technology, repetition is the simply thing that worked for me
  • #iii
Haha! I will try that. Thanks.
  • #four
Medic Tim
Doing it over and over and over again. Practise information technology on real people not just running through a piece of paper by yourself . Y'all volition find your own rhythm in fourth dimension.
If yous understand why you do something it is easier to recollect than doing it just for the hell o it.
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  • #5
Sweet! Thank you. I've been practicing on a pillow and you should see the await on my moms face up! Haha! I am heading for the dog next.
  • #6
STXmedic
As already stated, repetition is key. Non just on paper, though. Actually perform the skill.

Another thing that seems to help students is to be the ane grading your classmates. You start to meet eatables mistakes, which helps you non brand the same ones.

  • #seven
JPINFV
The real key is to get comfortable with your ain fashion. Your style is going to be slightly dissimilar than your classmates' style, who are going to be slightly different than your teacher'southward mode. Unlike is not necessarily bad.
  • #8
hesher
mnemonics helped me quite a fleck..

after scene condom/bsi/MOI/NOI/# of patients/resources and assistance..

General impression, cervical indications
Level of consciousness, AVPU, AOx#
Abcd + need for O2
Rapid scan
Transport decision, position, priority

Spells GLART, doesn't have to brand sense, for some reason it sticks with me..

And then SAMPLE, OPQRST, vitals, and focused test or DCAPBTLS.

Then reasses every five or 15, repeat initial. That'southward my foundation I work from.

  • #9
Household6
Sweet! Thanks. I've been practicing on a pillow and you should see the expect on my moms face! Haha! I am heading for the domestic dog next.

My canis familiaris is my best patient.. Although she doesn't take the C-neckband well, and I can never become an authentic BP...

SAMPLE, DOTS, OPQRST, print off the NREMS checklist, take mom grade you if she's at that place.. My 13 year sometime does my checklists, he's quite proficient, he merely needed to be shown how to practice it.

  • #10
I e'er remember this acronym:
Scene Survery
D: Dangers?
Thousand: Mechanism?
Five:Victims
R: Improver resources?Primary survery
C:Consider C spine
G: General impression
LOC: Level of consciousness
A: Airway
B: Animate
C: Circulation

So when doing an assessment, I always recall this acronym and it helps me to call back what I am suppose to practise.
DMVR C GLOC ABC

  • #11
The secondary assessment shouldn't be that hard either... Everyone always gets three things SAMPLE, VITALS, and a Concrete cess (rapid/ focused/ detailed) and if they accept south.o.b, abdominal pain, or breast pain and so you>>OPQRST as well.
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