3.2 Lab Activities
3.2a Positioning Activity
- You will be practicing patient safety with transfers from a bed position to the standing position using a gait belt. You will also be placing your lab partners into the following positions: Fowlers, Semi-Fowlers, Trendelenburg, Reverse Trendelenburg, Lateral, Prone, and Supine. You will take a photo of each position and upload it to the LMS Assignment area.
- Start a list of questions on a separate piece of paper for your focused health history assignment for the “Interview Your Patient” lab activity. See the “Interview Your Patient” lab activity for directions below. In addition, you will need to research one of the following diseases to prepare the “patient” answers to the focused health history. Diseases to choose from are asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis, pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis, and congestive heart failure. The “patient” answers should reflect likely responses to the chosen disease
3.2b Interview Your Patient Activity
You will be asking your “patient” lab partner a series of questions to collect their complete focused health history.
You will need to create a set of questions on a separate piece of paper to “Obtain a Focused Health History” during lab time. These questions should be VERY complete so the interview you perform takes at least 30-40 minutes. Remember, “Yes” or “No” questions are fine, but will need follow-up questions. You are designing your questions to get the information you need, and the more information you get, the better.
Example: Asking someone, “Do you smoke?” may not give you all the answers. If the patient answers “No,” what will your follow-up questions be? How about, “Have you ever smoked?” “How old were you when you quit?” “How old were you when you started?” “What did you smoke?” or “How many packs a day did you average?”
We are focusing on the subjective portion of the SOAP note for this exercise. The SOAP note is how medical histories are written when documenting. S stands for Subjective Data, O stands for Objective Data, A stands for Assessment of Data, and P stands for Plan of Action for patient care.
Use this template to come up with questions to ask your “patient” during lab time:
