NREMT has added "Failure to perform as a competent EMT" as a critical fail.
This is based on a trauma assessment I did yesterday
Would you use this as a critical fail, if...
The student only asks two A+O questions, then determines the patient is A+Ox1?
The student ascultates blood pressure...
As a Skills Instructor and Examiner at my local college, I'm asking for some input on this one.
NREMT has both of these as a separate skill, however... we test them as a single station, but as two separate skills.
If a student were to verbalize BSI on the first skill, but not the second...