Grading on practicals?

[secondangels]

Hey everyone, this is my first post here so forgive me if I mess anything up.

I have my emt-b practical test tomorrow morning and I'm pretty nervous. I took my class practical a few nights ago and the grading seemed really hard and didn't make much sense to me.

They used the nremt sheets, but on some I "passed" even though I got a critical fail and failed one even though I got enough points with no critical fails. My instructor is known to grade very harshly and the pass/fail decisions were ultimately up to her, but I'm wondering if the actual evaluators will grade like that?

For the record, I failed the trauma station for not specifically saying "jaw thrust" when I opened the airway.

On the KED I got marked "failure to manage pt as a competent emt" because I didn't ask the patient to lift his legs when I put on the leg straps. On medical I "didn't provide an accurate report to arriving ems unit" because I didn't include the patient's age. I passed both apparently according to my instructor, though.

TLDR: How tough is the grading on the nremt practicals, and what do I need to remember?

 

[BOS 101]

Hey everyone, this is my first post here so forgive me if I mess anything up.

I have my emt-b practical test tomorrow morning and I'm pretty nervous. I took my class practical a few nights ago and the grading seemed really hard and didn't make much sense to me.

They used the nremt sheets, but on some I "passed" even though I got a critical fail and failed one even though I got enough points with no critical fails. My instructor is known to grade very harshly and the pass/fail decisions were ultimately up to her, but I'm wondering if the actual evaluators will grade like that?

For the record, I failed the trauma station for not specifically saying "jaw thrust" when I opened the airway.

On the KED I got marked "failure to manage pt as a competent emt" because I didn't ask the patient to lift his legs when I put on the leg straps. On medical I "didn't provide an accurate report to arriving ems unit" because I didn't include the patient's age. I passed both apparently according to my instructor, though.

TLDR: How tough is the grading on the nremt practicals, and what do I need to remember?

So you failed, but the instructor passed you anyway?
Usually it seems you can get a little lee way (I mean a medic can always ask for the age 2 seconds later)
However you do have to cater to whos grading cuz theres not much you can do about that and just try to do everything including all the little stuff they gave you crud about, for emt class sims do it very by the book
Hopefully it goes well for you, tell me how you did.

 

[RedAirplane]

Unfortunately it seems that there is a lot of variance in this.

I passed once before I even finished the assessment.

And I failed once by giving NTG to a CP pt who was taking Viagra, even though the pt said he was taking no Meds. Apparently the pt in the scenario was lying and hence I killed him and failed.

Just try to hit all the key points. Hopefully it'll go well.

 

[Amelia]

Hey everyone, this is my first post here so forgive me if I mess anything up.
I have my emt-b practical test tomorrow morning and I'm pretty nervous. I took my class practical a few nights ago and the grading seemed really hard and didn't make much sense to me.

They used the nremt sheets, but on some I "passed" even though I got a critical fail and failed one even though I got enough points with no critical fails. My instructor is known to grade very harshly and the pass/fail decisions were ultimately up to her, but I'm wondering if the actual evaluators will grade like that?

For the record, I failed the trauma station for not specifically saying "jaw thrust" when I opened the airway.

On the KED I got marked "failure to manage pt as a competent emt" because I didn't ask the patient to lift his legs when I put on the leg straps. On medical I "didn't provide an accurate report to arriving ems unit" because I didn't include the patient's age. I passed both apparently according to my instructor, though.

TLDR: How tough is the grading on the nremt practicals, and what do I need to remember?

We had to do it -perfectly- or we failed. Our instructor was a HARD *** and I absolutely love her.

 

[secondangels]

Thank you everyone for your feedback! I passed them all!

 

[Amelia]

Yay!! Congrats!!

 

[PeterAZ]

This is the main problem I have with the skills assessment. It seems to lack uniformity among the proctors, as being told that you passed during a practice session by one instructor, but failed by another instructor for something that not all instructors would necessarily mark as a critical fail it's frustrating.