Competency information
Details
For each procedure, initiate a consultation, elicit information, clarify as necessary, summarise and empathise, and use active listening techniques while taking a patient history
Considerations
- The features that should be present in an effective patient consultation
- Structure of a consultation model, eg the Calgary-Cambridge model using a logical sequence, which includes:
- brief biographical
- history of presenting complaint
- past history
- smoking/alcohol
- medication (prescribed and other)
- allergies
- family/social
- concerns and expectations
- summary
- Common questioning techniques used during history taking and know when to use them
- Difference between a health professional-centred and patient- centred consultation
- How to modify techniques for patients with special needs, relevant to the circumstances of the patient
- The importance of checking for patient allergies in case they are not already documented
- Possible sources for clinical history of patients referred for non- invasive cardiac procedures
- Normal and abnormal pathology of the heart and associated structures
- Medication used to treat cardiac symptoms and conditions, including pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of cardiac arrhythmias
- Key symptoms relating to cardiac disorders
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome The trainee should produce evidence of completion of immediate or advanced life support training before undertaking any of the learning outcomes. |
| # 3 | Outcome Under supervision, technically interpret the data and produce high-quality reports with respect to echocardiography, and be able to differentiate between artefact and physiological occurance |