#assessment teaching

[entaberp]

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[luinhealthcare]

Does Hyrule mind teaching how to assess a patient??👉👈

"You... want to learn how to assess patients?" Hyrule asked hesitantly.

Wild shrugged. "What if I want to be an EMT?"

"You also said you wanted to be a chef in the hospital."

"I can do both, you know."

Hyrule laughed. "I suppose so. Well... we'll need a patient for this to work."

Wild immediately snatched Sky, who yelped as his friend snaked a hand around his wrist. "Sky's the patient, heaven knows he needs to be looked over anyway."

"Look who's talking, Mr. I-Have-Seizures-and-Don't-Tell-Anybody," Sky grumbled as he was manhandled to sit between the other two.

"Well, everyone knows now."

Hyrule and Sky gave Wild a scalding look. Adequately apologetic, Wild shrugged sheepishly.

"Anyway," Hyrule sighed, shifting his focus to Sky. "Assessments come in different forms. You've got a primary and a secondary assessment. Primary is kind of a general overview and checking for life threatening stuff, secondary is in-depth on what the issue actually is. Make sense?"

Wild nodded.

"Great!" Hyrule continued with a smile. "Okay. Sky's our patient. Sky, you got shot once, right?"

Sky nodded, and Wild balked. "He what?!"

"It was a long time ago," Sky waved a dismissive hand.

"Okay, so that's our scenario," Hyrule said, standing. "We're dispatched for a 21-year-old male with a GSW--"

"That means gunshot wound, right?"

"Yeah. GSW, conscious patient. That's all we've got. So, you get on scene, and the very first thing you do is check for scene safety. If the scene isn't safe, we're not going in. First thing you're taught in EMS - your own safety comes first, because if you're shot you can't help the patient. It's you, your partner, then the patient."

"How often do you actually listen to that rule?" Sky asked, raising an eyebrow.

"That's not what we're learning today," Hyrule waved off easily. It was pretty common knowledge that while he would never put his partner's life at risk, he'd gotten himself into dicey situations before. But he knew how to get himself out of those situations too. "So, we determine the scene is safe. Next, is our primary assessment. The purpose of this assessment is to check for life threatening things, and an overview of major body systems. Neuro status, bleeding, and your ABCs: Airway, Breathing, Circulation.

"The situation is pretty dynamic, like sometimes you walk up and somebody's got an arterial bleed and spurting blood everywhere, your assessment stops right there and you go fix that bleed. But generally you'll have time to do the entire primary assessment."

"Okay, so neuro and ABCs?"

"Yeah. And the good thing is that most of it happens all at once, you know? You walk up to Sky and he looks at you, then boom, you've got a good neuro - he's awake, he's alert. He may not be oriented, but you can figure that out by just talking to him. And by this point you can tell if there's life threatening bleeding. Then it's ABCs - is his airway patent, or open? Is he breathing, and is he doing so normally? Is his skin warm, dry, and normal tone for him? You can literally do al these things by just walking into the room and looking at him for five seconds. The primary assessment is done really fast and, the more times you do it, basically automatically."

"What would be an example of something being wrong?" Wild askd.

Hyrule glanced at him. "When I got on scene for your crash, you were unconscious and unresponsive--in other words, you were not only unconscious, but nothing would wake you up--and your breathing was gurgling sounding because you had blood in your airway."

Glancing at Sky, Hyrule said, "Sky can give us an example of a not great primary assessment, I'm sure."

Helpfully, Sky immediately flopped off the chair he was sitting on, collapsing to the ground with a crash. Wild laughed, and footsteps rushed from upstairs into the living room.

Twilight immediately froze in the entranceway, eyes wide and fixed on Sky. "Sky, what the--guys what the hell is hap--"

Sky perked up immediately. "Oh, sorry! I'm just helping Hyrule teach Wild!"

Twilight froze a moment and then sighed heavily, pinching the bridge of his nose and grumbling under his breath.

Hyrule smiled, pointing at Twilight. "He just perfectly showed a good primary assessment looks like! He walked in and saw the patient down on the ground, tried to figure out a neuro by calling out to him, and when Sky woke up he immediately could tell he was fine. Neuro intact, not bleeding, had a patent airway because he's talking, breathing normally, and skin looks normal."

"I hate all of you," Twilight groaned, walking out of the room.

"Okay, but by skin looking normal... what does it mean when it doesn't?" Wild asked.

"Your skin can tell a story," Hyrule explained. "If you're diaphoretic, which means sweating, something is likely wrong. Though it depends on context - if your patient's sweaty but they were just exercising, it makes sense. If Sky's sweaty on the ground after being shot, he's in shock. If the skin is cool, the body isn't circulating well - that can sap the color right out of your skin - the lighter your skin tone the more notable it is, but darker skin tones can become paler too. A lot of times with darker skin tones you'll want to look at their palms or their lips, that'll help you determine it. Another color is grey - that usually means cardiac and it's bad. So skin can tell you a lot!"

"How did my skin look?" Wild questioned, curious.

"Pale," Hyrule immediately answered. "Anyway. Sky's your patient. Look him over."

"Okay," Wild blew out a breath, approaching Sky and kneeling beside him. "So he's unconscious, that's my neuro so far."

"Can you arouse him at all?"

Wild poked Sky in the neck. Sky flinched. Wild poked again and Sky giggled. Wild's eyes widened in realization, and a mischievous smile crossed his face.

"Wild, wait--"

Sky started laughing hysterically as his friend tickled him, wiggling and trying to shove him away.

"Get--off of m--Wild you jerk--"

Hyrule chuckled. "Well, we're not taught to tickle our patients, but that works."

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

one of my ed hot takes is that the idea that standardized tests measure too narrow a range of skills is basically backwards. standardized tests measure too many skills - whether you can read, but also shit like whether you have the emotional maturity to select a counterintuitively worded answer that must be correct because the others are obviously wrong. it’s AMAZING how hard this is for students, and how much work it takes to coach them out of “it just didn’t sound right”

[send-me-a-puffalope]

why did my teachers think it was okay to give us like one single weekend to finish all of our midterm projects and study for our tests.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

in order for me to feel down to clown speculate over all the various different scenarios in which jgy might feel compelled to kill or cause serious material harm to lxc, i would first have to feel confident that it is clearly understood that, canonically, jgy just straight up would not fucking do that.

[the-fibre-stuff]

I know I already gave Nonnie too much time and effort and space on my dash. But the urge to add "off the clock" after "CYC Instructor" is rising. It would be petty and oh so funny.

[just-french-me-up]

writing abilities really do come in handy when it comes to filling students' report cards, and you gotta find an elegant way of conveying :

"hasn't done fuckall and probably won't in the near future"

"has done enough fucking around to find out"

"who are you?"

"youre my sleep paralysis demon"

[v-arbellanaris]

like in 2023 alone i have at least SEVEN separate classes/workshops/tutorials on formatting in microsoft word, inputting data and creating graphs in excel and editing powerpoints for UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. which i learned at primary school through fucking about making presentations and school reports on fucking toucans in the sixth grade. BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN THEY WERE TEACHING US HOW TO USE A COMPUTER.

[djungleskogs]

im kinda jealous of how involved american colleges are. like your professors actually take a personal interest in you? my tutors all barely remember peoples names and most of them don’t even try. you have mandatory classes? i went to 1 class out of 13 for one of my units this semester because i couldn’t make myself go. you are failing or need extra credits? the professor can choose to give you some. maybe it’s just my uni but they do NOT give extra credit no matter what. we don’t even get supplementary assessments so if you do badly you’re just fucked. extensions go through the uni itself and not the teaching staff. you have multiple classes per subject a week? ok maybe not all colleges but i feel like if i had more than one to go to i would show up more and would also get to actually know the people in my degree. i am four years into this and i have like. 2 friends who study law and we aren’t even in the same stage of the degree. one of my old unit coordinators was american and she had such a culture shock coming to my uni because of how detached it is. she tried to structure the unit in a way that encouraged students to actually show up to class and get to know people in the classes and she had to change it because it went against uni policy.

[andreabaideas]

Memes & work shenanigans

Meme made with horror old time films adds (those screencaps come from @tyaniss post, thanks to @alwayschasingrainbows for reposting It! )

The memes are mine though.

Context or POV :

You are a college/high school teacher and Next week you have the assessment board to grade students before spring break ...

1-

Student: Teacher, you think Its possible i can pass this trimester with 2/3 exams failed If I make the extra work you said in class?

Students: We know you said the groups have to be of 2, but can we be 3? The more we are the better the presentation would be 🥺

The principal : Tomorrow we have the assessment board, Dont worry, this trimester will be shorter! Just from 16:00 to 20:30h!

Teachers : 🤨😱

Teacher (me) : Today we have exam

Students:

Student : Teacher, have! The homework of this trimester before the due date's day!

Teacher :

Teacher : Do you have any question before we start the exam? Any doubt?

Students: Nope, Its okay

Teacher :

Student Who was a terror and failed the last trimester , this trimester behaves, studies and get an A+ :

Beginning of the Assessment board...

Principal: How many students passed every subject this trimester?

Teachers:

And...The ending of the assessment board evaluation week + beggining of holiday

Teachers and students:

....

Guess Who have assessment board Next week? 🙄

[entaberp]

The Essential Elements of Competency-Based Assessment

Competency-based assessment requires clear objectives, valid and reliable measures of competency, and meaningful feedback. These elements ensure that the assessment is accurate and provides useful information to the learner.Competency-based assessment is an evaluation technique that focuses on a learner's ability to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to achieve a predetermined learning goal. It focuses on the mastery of skills and knowledge, rather than the amount of time spent on a task.

Entab's Competency-Based Assessments provide an innovative approach to evaluation tailored to individual student needs. It focuses on assessing students' knowledge and skills rather than performance. This approach encourages students to take ownership of their learning and reach their full potential.

[pteropods]

:p doing math for my state testing

[gaydryad]

accidentally getting a little too into my pedagogy class and starting to wonder if I should pivot and go into education (academic field)

[pirate-melody]

i love working at a school in the south bc then when people freak out about the weather I get a 5 day weekend and its fantastic

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Love writing pure porn while I'm at work lmao

[femmefitz]

Randomly was reminded of that post that said people were anti-intellectual for being bad at math and should try harder to teach themselves. I don't even know how to articulate how dumb this is. Anyway.