Adv. Patient Assess Principles
Credits: 3
Course Number: 10-531-913
Course Description
10-531-913 ADVANCED PATIENT ASSESSMENT PRINCIPLES ...this course teaches the paramedic student to integrate scene and patient assessment findings with knowledge of epidemiology and pathophysiology to form a field impression. By utilizing a structured and organized assessment process with knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, life span development, and changes that occur to the human body with time, the students will learn to develop a list of differential diagnoses through clinical reasoning, along with the ability to modify the assessment as necessary to formulate a treatment plan for their patients. (Corequisites: all 10-531-XXX courses in the current semester)
Course Typically Offered
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What will I learn?
- Examine the physiological and psychosocial characteristics associated with various stages of human life.
- Identify components of a primary assessment of a patient.
- Value the importance of basic patient needs.
- Demonstrate a thorough primary patient assessment
- Demonstrate history taking as a part of a thorough patient assessment.
- Identify the components of a secondary assessment of a patient.
- Demonstrate a thorough secondary patient assessment.
- Differentiate anatomical, physical, cognitive, and emotional differences between pediatric and adult patients.
- Compare and contrast normal and abnormal changes to the human body associated with aging.