Title: Demonstrate history taking.
Course: Emergency Medical Responder (14055-IV) > Section: Assessing the Patient

Demonstration should include

- investigating the chief complaint
- assessing the mechanism of injury or nature of illness
- soliciting and recording a patient’s past medical history
- identifying associated signs or symptoms.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How does the mechanism of injury or nature of illness change the questions that are included when an EMR is investigating the chief complaint?
- How does the patient’s chief complaint (medical or trauma) change when the patient history is performed within the assessment sequence?