PSDOT Assessment Evaluation

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DISPATCH AND SCENE ACTIVITY

DISPATCH AND SCENE ACTIVITY
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 Needs
Improvement		Meets
Expectations		Above
Expectations		N/A
DISPATCH AND SCENE ACTIVITY
Skills making up this assessment category:
  1. Reviews dispatch data in route to scene
  2. Understands optimal route and response mode to the scene
  3. Performs scene assessment
  4. Wears personal protective equipment
  5. Assesses # of patients at the scene
  6. Assesses need for additional support (ground/air units, personnel, specialty referral)
  7. Understands appropriate patient care equipment needed

DATA GATHERING

DATA GATHERING
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 Needs
Improvement		Meets
Expectations		Above
Expectations		N/A
DATA GATHERING
Skills making up this assessment category:
  1. Respectful of patient's privacy and confidentiality.
  2. Appears professional, introduces self, and communicates efficiently and respectfully with patient, family and associates.
  3. Uses language translation personnel when indicated.
  4. Efficiently gathers essential and accurate information from all available sources (i.e. patient, family, 1st response personnel, PMD, old records).
  5. Performs complaint oriented physical exam and appropriate general exam for prehospital setting.
  6. Oversees patient care by EMS personnel.

SYNTHESIS / DDX

SYNTHESIS and DDX
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 Needs
Improvement		Meets
Expectations		Above
Expectations		N/A
SYNTHESES / DDX
Skills making up this assessment category:
  1. Can explain the pathologic basis for management.
  2. Derives a diagnosis with limited ancillary data.
  3. Identifies conditions requiring field notification (Trauma, Stroke, STEM!, Sepsis).
  4. Understands benefits, risks and indications for a therapy or procedure.

MANAGEMENT

MANAGEMENT
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 Needs
Improvement		Meets
Expectations		Above
Expectations		N/A
MANAGEMENT
Skills making up this assessment category:
  1. Appropriately sequences critical actions in patient care.
  2. Competently performs a procedure, demonstrating knowledge of anatomy and observant of inherent risks.
  3. Communicates clearly, concisely, and professionally.
  4. Anticipates, negotiates, and effectively resolves conflicts that occur at the interface between patients, family, and professional associates.
  5. Prioritizes patients appropriately by acuity.
  6. Controls distract ions and other priorities while maintaining focus on patient's care.
  7. Executes/orders field notification of receiving facility.

TRANSPORT/DISPOSITION

TRANSPORT / DISPOSITION
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 Needs
Improvement		Meets
Expectations		Above
Expectations		N/A
TRANSPORT/DISPOSITION
Skills making up this assessment category:
  1. Monitors patient and reevaluates therapeutic intervention.
  2. Executes informed refusal (if applicable).
  3. Transports patient in a compassionate, professional manner.
  4. Carries out appropriate transition of care at receiving facility.