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Clinical Preceptor Guide

What each student should be able to do/demonstrate at a minimum each semester:

Semester 1 – Fall

  1. Introduce themselves to patients
  2. Talk to patients
  3. Talk to other RTs
  4. Talk to hospital staff
  5. Do an IS
  6. Do an EzPAP
  7. Give a nebulizer
  8. Put a nasal cannula on a patient
  9. Assess patients 
  10. Complete chest physical exam
  11. Look through patient charts
  12. Look at SpO2
  13. Palpate HR
  14. Auscultate HR
  15. Auscultate breath sounds
  16. Discuss lung expansion therapies
  17. Discuss oxygen therapies

Semester 2 – Spring

Any procedures from previous semester plus:

  1. Airway clearance therapy
  2. Lung expansion
  3. Draw ABGs
  4. Interpret ABGs
  5. Assess patient receiving NPPV outside of the ICU, if possible
  6. Assess ICU patients
  7. Manually ventilate patients
  8. Trach Care
  9. Calculate:
    1. PAO2
    2. P/F ratio
    3. Lung Compliance
    4. Resistance

Semester 3 – Fall

Any procedures from previous semester plus:

  1. Do pt-ventilator assessments
  2. Assess critically ill patients
  3. Set up/check HFNC
  4. Assist with set up/check BiPAP or CPAP
  5. Set up mechanical ventilators
  6. Make recommendations for ventilator changes based upon ABGs
  7. Assist in an extubation
  8. Suction ETT & Trach
  9. Draw off Arterial Lines
  10. Participate in an Intubation 
  11. Participate in a Bronch 
  12. Talk about medications patients are on
  13. Calculate:
    1. New PaCO2 after vent changes
    2. Clinical Shunt
    3. CaO2
    4. DO2

 

Semester 4 – Spring

Any procedures from previous semester plus:

  1. Attend a delivery 
  2. Watch or participate in NRP
  3. Do an assessment on a baby or ped
  4. Complete a pediatric assessment
  5. Assess a baby on HFNC
  6. Assess a baby on HFJV
  7. Assess a baby on HFOV
  8. Assess a baby on Conventional Vent
  9. Care for a ventilated pediatric patient
  10. Assess a baby on CPAP
  11. Assess a patient on RA
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