Blog 8: Research and Working EQ

1.  What is your working EQ?
My working EQ is: What are the top three things you can do to ensure the best care possible for your patient? 

2.  What is a possible answer to your working EQ? Please write the answer in thesis format.  
The first thing you can do to ensure the best possible care for you patient is when you arrive on scene to the call, go through your primary assessment, which includes making sure your patient has an airway, is breathing adequately, has a good circulation, and has no disabilities. After you assess the ABCD's you want to address any life threatening conditions. Once you notice these treat the life threats. Finally, you want to transport your patient to a better environment. All of this is part of the primary assessment.The next thing you can do to ensure the best possible care of your patient is to do a secondary assessment, which includes getting a head to toe examination of your patient by inspection of any abnormalities and deformities, by touching, and listening for respirations and perfusion. Then you would want to gather your SAMPLE History by asking the patient questions of their symptoms and figuring  out their signs, asking if they have any allergies, if they're on any medications, if they have any past pertinent medical history, when they last ate or drank something, and what they were doing leading up to the accident. All of this is part of your secondary assessment. The last thing you can do to ensure the best possible care for your patient is to hand off your patient to a higher level of care like ALS. You want to do this to ensure that they go to a hospital because we can't diagnose anything, we're only here for immediate response and treatment. 

3.  What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ? 
The most important source I have used to come up with an answer to my working essential question is my Outdoor Emergency Care book. This book was written by Deborah A. Endly, David H. Johe, and Edward C. McNamara. 


4.  Who is your mentor, or where are you volunteering, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ?
My mentor is David Mix of Mt. Baldy Ski Lifts Inc. He works for patrol and is the manager of the ski patrol at Mt. Baldy. Everything I've been doing has helped me answer my essential question because I've been going on calls and lending a hand for the pro patrollers. While I'm on these calls, I get to see what my fellow patrollers do to respond to a patient in need and that is injured. I just step back and watch and help whenever someone asks me too.