Competency information
Details
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, e.g. the Calgary-Cambridge model, using a logical sequence that includes:
- brief biographical
- history of presenting complaint
- past history
- smoking/alcohol
- medication (prescribed and other)
- allergies
- family/social
- concerns and expectations
- summary
- commonly used 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.
- Key symptoms relating to respiratory and sleep disorders.
- Changes in the normal anatomy and physiology result in abnormalities of respiratory and sleep systems.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Perform and interpret assessments of blood gas status and identify the requirements for supplemental oxygen therapy. |
| # 2 | Outcome Perform full cardiopulmonary exercise testing in the investigation of respiratory, vascular and cardiac disease. |
| # 3 | Outcome Identify the requirement for and initiate non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in patients with both acute and chronic respiratory failure. |
| # 4 | Outcome Discuss and agree management strategies for disorders of respiratory or sleep and demonstrate the communication skills required to discuss subjects that may be difficult and work with patients. |
| # 5 | Outcome Perform, analyse and technically report polysomnographic sleep investigations in patients referred to a sleep service. |