ENPC 4th Edition ~ Skills Checkoff
Questions
and Answers 100% Correct
Assess the Pt's level of consciousness/responsiveness✔✔Is the Pt awake/responsive or
unconscious
Primary Survey✔✔"A" - "E"
Position Pt to open airway & keep C-Spine stable✔✔Airway & Alignment (C-Spine)
Manually open the airway with the jaw-thrust maneuver to maintain C-Spine stabilization
Demonstrates and describes techniques to assess airway patency - Identify at least
3✔✔Vocalization or abnormal airway sounds
Tongue obstruction
Loose teeth or foreign objects
Blood, drooling, secretions, or vomit
Edema
Preferred posture
Dysphagia
Demonstrate and describes required interventions to clear the airway - Identify at least
1✔✔Suction
"Sniffing" Position - place head in a neutral position by placing a towel between shoulder blades
Remove foreign objects
Nasopharyngeal/Oropharyngeal Airway (OPA)
"B"✔✔Breathing & Ventilation
, Demonstrates and describes techniques to determine effectiveness of breathing - Identify at least
3✔✔Level of consciousness (LOC)
Spontaneous respirations
Rate & depth of respirations
Decreased/Increased ability
Symmetric & equal chest rise and fall
Presence & quality of breath sounds
Open chest wounds/deformities
Skin color
Begin or maintain oxygen therapy or assisted ventilations using:
~ 100% oxygen w/ NRB mask
~ Bag-mask with 100% oxygen
**Assess effectiveness of ventilation✔✔Equal rise/fall of chest
Auscultates breath sounds
States need for intubation✔✔Prepare for:
- Endotracheal Intubation (ET)
- Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI)
- Needle/surgical cricothyroidotomy
Signs of increased work of breathing✔✔Nasal flaring
Retractions
Head Bobbing
Expiratory grunting
Accessory muscle use
Questions
and Answers 100% Correct
Assess the Pt's level of consciousness/responsiveness✔✔Is the Pt awake/responsive or
unconscious
Primary Survey✔✔"A" - "E"
Position Pt to open airway & keep C-Spine stable✔✔Airway & Alignment (C-Spine)
Manually open the airway with the jaw-thrust maneuver to maintain C-Spine stabilization
Demonstrates and describes techniques to assess airway patency - Identify at least
3✔✔Vocalization or abnormal airway sounds
Tongue obstruction
Loose teeth or foreign objects
Blood, drooling, secretions, or vomit
Edema
Preferred posture
Dysphagia
Demonstrate and describes required interventions to clear the airway - Identify at least
1✔✔Suction
"Sniffing" Position - place head in a neutral position by placing a towel between shoulder blades
Remove foreign objects
Nasopharyngeal/Oropharyngeal Airway (OPA)
"B"✔✔Breathing & Ventilation
, Demonstrates and describes techniques to determine effectiveness of breathing - Identify at least
3✔✔Level of consciousness (LOC)
Spontaneous respirations
Rate & depth of respirations
Decreased/Increased ability
Symmetric & equal chest rise and fall
Presence & quality of breath sounds
Open chest wounds/deformities
Skin color
Begin or maintain oxygen therapy or assisted ventilations using:
~ 100% oxygen w/ NRB mask
~ Bag-mask with 100% oxygen
**Assess effectiveness of ventilation✔✔Equal rise/fall of chest
Auscultates breath sounds
States need for intubation✔✔Prepare for:
- Endotracheal Intubation (ET)
- Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI)
- Needle/surgical cricothyroidotomy
Signs of increased work of breathing✔✔Nasal flaring
Retractions
Head Bobbing
Expiratory grunting
Accessory muscle use
