Patient Assessments

[ScottSAA]

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Hey! I was just wondering if anyone knew about any websites or anything that provided information on dealing with patients with different issues.
Next week, I have my first patient based assessment and that patient could be chatty, depressed, have hearing loss, etc and I just am looking for some tips on dealing with these kinds of situations.
Basically, all we have to do is resolve issues with the patient but I feel like I wouldn't know how to deal with a patient that would keep going off-topic and get flustered.

Can anyone offer some help? I appreciate it 🙂

 

[pharm B]

Youtube has quite a few videos of practice assessments done in medical schools. Are you working with professional patients or the genuine article?

 

[crazybob]

Hey! I was just wondering if anyone knew about any websites or anything that provided information on dealing with patients with different issues.
Next week, I have my first patient based assessment and that patient could be chatty, depressed, have hearing loss, etc and I just am looking for some tips on dealing with these kinds of situations.
Basically, all we have to do is resolve issues with the patient but I feel like I wouldn't know how to deal with a patient that would keep going off-topic and get flustered.

Can anyone offer some help? I appreciate it 🙂

From my experience so far in the clinical skills center at school:
If it's your first year, they go easy on you and the patient won't have too many problems or have trouble paying attention
If not, they may not pay attention or understand you so well when you talk, they might be chatty, not willing to listen, and wouldn't want to be there, or a combination.

 

[ScottSAA]

It's just a practice. It's not worth anything and it's just with other classmates, but next semester it gets to be worth a lot more. I've been scoping out YouTube but I can't find clear cut answers like:
When someone is angry... do this, this and this and not this.
Thanks for the input so far, guys. Does anyone have anything more concrete?

 

[crazybob]

It's just a practice. It's not worth anything and it's just with other classmates, but next semester it gets to be worth a lot more. I've been scoping out YouTube but I can't find clear cut answers like:
When someone is angry... do this, this and this and not this.
Thanks for the input so far, guys. Does anyone have anything more concrete?

I'm not sure if this is concrete, but one thing I can say is that you have to make your own decision on what you think would be best for the patient, because even with guidelines, they can't make them for every possible scenario. It's up to you to pick up clues about how a patient is feeling and what he/she wants.