Acquiring Fundamental Knowledge | - Read and understand written documents (e.g., flow sheets, charts, graphs)
- Use short-term and long-term memory
- Use computer technology
| - Reviewing patient charts and interpreting lab results
- Using electronic health records (EHR) systems
- Memorizing protocols for emergency response
- Learning through lectures, simulations, and online modules
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Developing Communication Skills | - Demonstrate effective communication skills sufficient to understand instructions, interact with patients and teams, and accurately document information in academic and clinical settings
- Collaborate with others (e.g., healthcare workers, peers)
- Provide patient education to meet varied individual needs
- Comprehend nonverbal communication
- Exhibit professional nonverbal communication
- Relay instructions and needs promptly
- Engage in and comprehend various communication methods
| - Use clear, concise, and professional verbal and written English to collaborate with multidisciplinary healthcare teams in academic and clinical settings
- Writing accurate progress notes or other patient documentation
- Responding to a patient's nonverbal cues of pain or distress
- Explaining instructions to patients with different sensory functions, backgrounds, experience and cognitive levels
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Interpreting Data | - Analyze and interpret abstract and concrete data
- Evaluate outcomes
- Sequence information
- Utilize tactile, auditory, visual, and olfactory information for data collection/assessment
- Use depth perception
| - Interpreting diagnostic imaging results
- Monitoring changes in skin color or temperature
- Evaluating lab trends over time
- Using tactile feedback to assess pulse quality
- Using stethoscope for patient assessment
- Reviewing and evaluating images for completeness
- Detecting changes in temperature, color, odor, and vibration
- Assessing and monitoring vital signs
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Integrating Knowledge to Establish Professional Judgment | - Make decisions independently
- Adapt decisions based on new information
- Plan/control activities (organizational skills)
- Prioritize tasks
- Problem solve
- Apply mathematical skills
| - Determining urgency of patient symptoms
- Adjusting care plans based on new lab results
- Managing multiple patients during a busy shift
- Troubleshooting equipment issues during procedures
- Transferring and applying knowledge from one situation to another
- Processing and interpreting data from multiple sources
- Maintaining sterile technique
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Developing Appropriate Professional Attitudes and Behaviors | - Accept constructive feedback
- Accept responsibility for own actions
- Cope with own emotions and strong emotions in others
- Establish therapeutic boundaries
- Establish rapport with individuals and teams
- Negotiate interpersonal conflict
- Respect/value diversity
- Respond to others respectfully
- Adapt to changing environments/stress
- Emotional stability and professionalism
| - Remaining calm during a code blue
- Respecting cultural differences in patient care
- Receiving and applying feedback from clinical instructors
- Maintaining professionalism during emotionally charged situations
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Safety Skills | - Promote and maintain patient and team safety
- Tolerate exposure to allergens (e.g., latex, chemicals)
- Wear protective equipment (e.g., mask, gown, gloves)
- Understand and comply with radiation safety protocols
- Function in fast-paced environments
- Understand risks and accommodations related to pregnancy and radiation
| - Following infection control protocols
- Wearing PPE during procedures
- Recognizing and responding to fire alarms, equipment warnings or hazardous spills
- Complying with radiation exposure guidelines
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Physical Skills | - Demonstrate sufficient physical ability and mobility to perform essential patient care tasks, including positioning, transferring, and supporting patients and moving safely and efficiently within confined spaces
- Lift, push, pull, and support 50 pounds
- Sustain repetitive movements (e.g., CPR)
- Use upper body strength (e.g., restrain clients)
- Manipulate equipment (buttons, dials, keyboards)
- Move within confined spaces
- Detect and tolerate unpleasant sights/sounds/smells and extreme temperatures
- Endurance, strength, mobility, balance, flexibility and coordination to perform client care activities and emergency procedures
- Distinguish color and color intensity
| - Assisting a patient from wheelchair to bed
- Evacuating via stairway during emergency situations
- Performing CPR for extended periods
- Operating sonography or radiography machines or ventilators
- Working in surgical suites with limited space
- Transferring and positioning patients
- Possessing stamina sufficient to maintain physical assistance to patients/clients for a clinical shift
- Grasping objects of varying sizes such as instruments, syringes, etc. with both firm and light pressure
- Coordinating eye-hand and eye-hand-foot movements
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