| Patient Care 1: Emergency stabilization | Prioritizes critical initial stabilization action and mobilizes hospital support services in the resuscitation of a critically ill or injured patient and reassesses after stabilizing intervention. |
Patient Care 2: Performance of focused
history and physical exam | Abstracts current findings in a patient with multiple chronic medical problems and, when appropriate, compares with a prior medical record and identifies significant differences between the current presentation and past presentation. |
| Patient Care 3: Diagnostic studies | Applies the results of diagnostic testing based on the probability of disease and the likelihood of test results altering management. |
| Patient Care 4: Diagnosis | Based on all of the available data, narrows and prioritizes the list of weighted differential diagnoses to determine appropriate management. |
| Patient Care 5: Pharmacotherapy | Selects and prescribes, appropriate pharmaceutical agents based upon relevant considerations such as mechanism of action, intended effect, financial considerations, possible adverse effects, patient preferences, allergies, potential drug-food and drug-drug interactions, institutional policies, and clinical guidelines; and effectively combines agents and monitors and intervenes in the advent of adverse effects in the ED. |
| Patient Care 7: Disposition | Establishes and implements a comprehensive disposition plan that uses appropriate consultation resources, patient education regarding diagnosis, treatment plan, medications, and time and location specific disposition instructions. |
Patient Care 8: Multi-tasking (Task-
switching) | Employs task switching in an efficient and timely manner in order to manage the ED. |
Patient Care 11: Anesthesia and acute
pain management | Provides safe acute pain management, anesthesia, and procedural sedation to patients of all ages regardless of the clinical situation. |
System Based Practice 2: Systems based
management | Participates in strategies to improve healthcare delivery and flow. Demonstrates an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of healthcare. |
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