This heuristic is designed to help students learn the many questions involved in a secondary and focused patient assessment. Each graphic organizer is created for a specific patient concern: stroke, head injury, hypoglycemia, spinal injury, heart attack, angina, mild pain, fever, febrile seizures, & anaphylaxis.
On top of better helping students develop their patient assessment skills, students will also grow to better understand each patient illness or injury and the specific questions an