Patient Care IV

Catalog description

Patient Care IV is the final course in this series which will encompass patient care, including eliciting the history and completing a physical exam on pregnant and non-pregnant women, pediatric patients from birth to 18 yr., and geriatric patients (>65 yr.). Students will continue to practice medical documentation of acute, chronic, and preventive health visits, focusing on these specific patient populations. Students will acquire experience in obtaining information from family/caregivers/interpreters and previous patient records in patients unable to provide their own historical information. The physical exam component of the course will have students contrast normal and abnormal findings, and document those findings in these specific patient populations. In linking with the surgery and emergency medicine courses in this term, the student will conclude the series with instruction on documentation of admission orders, in-patient progress notes, discharge summaries, and other documents utilized in ER, OR and in-patient hospital care of patients.