Procedures
Split the way the department curriculum splits them: the procedures an APP performs, and the ones that are physician-performed or taught elsewhere.
- Simple lacerations
- Complex lacerations
- Fingernail laceration repair
- Abscess incision & drainage
- Paronychia drainage
- Nasal packing for epistaxis
- Foreign body removal
- Ring removal
- Digital nerve block
- Joint aspiration
Specialty
Section titled “Specialty”- Bag-valve-mask
- Supraglottic airway (not APP-performed)
- Endotracheal intubation (not APP-performed)
- Rapid sequence intubation (not APP-performed)
- Needle thoracostomy (not APP-performed)
- Tube thoracostomy (not APP-performed)
- Peripheral IV placement (not APP-performed)
- Ultrasound-guided IV placement (not APP-performed)
- Central venous catheter placement (not APP-performed)
- Arterial line placement (not APP-performed)
- Intraosseous (IO) placement (not APP-performed)
- Lumbar puncture (not APP-performed)
- Splint application
- Joint immobilization
- Fracture / dislocation reduction (not APP-performed)
- FAST examination (not APP-performed)
- Cardiac ultrasound (not APP-performed)
- MSK ultrasound (context: incision and drainage) (not APP-performed)
- Eye pressure measurement
- Slit lamp exam (not APP-performed)
- Fluorescein staining of the eye