EMT Lesson Plans

Chapter 8: Patient Assessment

National EMS Education Standard Competencies

Assessment Applies scene information and patient assessment findings (scene size-up, primary and secondary assessment, patient history, and reassessment) to guide emergency management. Skills Objectives 1. Demonstrate the techniques for assessing a patient’s airway and correctly obtaining information related to respiratory rate, rhythm, quality/character of breathing, and depth of breathing. (pp 265–269) 2. Demonstrate how to assess a radial pulse in an unresponsive patient. (pp 270–272) 3. Demonstrate how to perform a rapid scan for injury. (pp 291–295, Skill Drill 8-2) 4. Demonstrate how to perform a full body scan for injury. (pp 291–295, Skill Drill 8-2) 5. Demonstrate proper emergency medical care of a patient who has a penetrating abdominal injury with an impaled object. (pp 979–980) 6. Demonstrate how to apply a dressing to an abdominal evisceration wound. (pp 980–981) 7. Demonstrate the care of a patient who has a penetrating eye injury. (pp 863–864) 8. Demonstrate the emergency medical care of a patient with an open abdominal wound. (p 819) 9. Demonstrate the stabilization of a foreign object that has been impaled in a patient’s eye. (pp 862–864, Skill Drill 25-2) 10. Demonstrate how to apply a Hare traction splint. (pp 1026–1028, Skill Drill 29–7) 11. Demonstrate how to stabilize an impaled object. (pp 820–821, Skill Drill 24-2) 12. Demonstrate how to care for a burn. (pp 834–836, Skill Drill 24-3) 13. Demonstrate the emergency medical care of a patient with a chemical, electrical, thermal, inhalation, or radiation burn. (pp 825–831, 834–836) 14. Demonstrate the emergency medical treatment of local cold injuries in the field. (p 1069) 15. Perform the rapid extrication technique to move a patient from a vehicle. (pp 1301–1306, Skill Drill 35-6)