Competency information
Details
Obtain a suitably completed request form, greet the patient, check patient identity and take a recent clinical history.
Considerations
- Referral routes for cardiac diagnostic investigations.
- Requirements for correct completion of request forms and how to validate.
- The importance of checking and confirming the patient identity and the implications of not doing so.
- Structure of a patient history and key information required.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Plan and perform a resting ECG in a range of patients in a variety of clinical settings, to current nationally accepted standards. |
| # 3 | Outcome Set up a patient for cardiac monitoring. |
| # 4 | Outcome Plan and perform BP measurement on a range of patients, using manual and automatic methods. |
| # 5 | Outcome Fit ambulatory ECG equipment, including patient instruction. |
| # 7 | Outcome Fit ambulatory BP equipment, including patient instruction, and produce the results in the appropriate format. |