Curriculum Block

Objectives

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and other health care professionals.
• Describe the role of other health professionals in the management of the patient in the ED.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the way the ED works (basic functioning, referrals, role of other health professionals).
• Demonstrate the ability to rapidly recognize and initiate basic management of acute life- or limb-threatening illness or injury
• Demonstrate a basic systematic, prioritized approach to resuscitation and stabilization of emergencies.
• Demonstrate a basic ability to distinguish seriously ill or injured patients from those with minor conditions.
• Distinguish which conditions are life-threatening or emergent from those that are less urgent.
• Describe the concept of triage and prioritization of care, including paraphrasing the use of Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS). Recognize that certain groups of patients require a high index of suspicion for serious illness (e.g.,immunocompromised, chronic renal failure, transplant, extremes of age, intoxicated, and diabetes).

Activities

• Triage

• Emergency Medicine Triage Shift

Tags

Clerkship Emergency Medicine Rotation Emergency Medicine 6.3 Advocate for quality patient care and optimal patient care systems that support patient- and population-centred care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable 6.8 Participate in identifying system-level gaps and errors and, where appropriate, identify, implement or participate in potential system-level solutions 7.2 Use the knowledge of one’s own role and the roles of other health professionals to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of the patients and populations served 8.5 Recognize that ambiguity is part of clinical health care and respond by utilizing appropriate resources in dealing with uncertainty Triage [N02.421.297.900]