Assignment: Managing Specific Medical Emergencies in Primary Care

Using the groups below and according to your last name, you will create an age appropriate, evidence based plan of care for a client that might present to a primary care setting with one of the specific emergencies listed below. Be sure that you:

  • Discuss the importance of being proficient in managing medical emergencies in a primary care setting
  • Discuss how an evidence based plan of care is beneficial in an emergency situation
  • Discuss appropriate subjective and objective information that you may find in this emergency
  • Develop appropriate differential diagnoses, choose correct diagnostic exams, and develop an evidence based management plan for this patient.

Group A: Address Burns/Chemical Exposure for an infant less than 1 year of age

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