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Who is the highest level of prehospital care provider?
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Paramedic
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5 different areas of Expanded Scope of Practice
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1- Critical Care Tansport
2- Primary Care 3. Tactical Ems 4- Industrial Medicine 5- Sports Medicine |
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Some of the first medical records were inscribed how many years ago?
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4,000-5,000 years ago
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What is an essiental component of an ems system
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Public
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What are the 4 T's of emergency care
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Triage
Treatment Transport Tranfer |
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Definition of Medical Director
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A physician who legally is responsible for all the clinical and patient care aspects of EMS systems
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What year did the National Highway Safet Act establish the DOT
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1966
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What year was the EMT-Ambulance program made public
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1969
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What year was the first paramedic curriculum introduced
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1977
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What gov't agency sets nationwide standards for Paramedic programs
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DOT
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Name the # and types of different ambulances
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Type I- conventional cab and chasis, ( big trucks)
Type II- Van Type III- Specialty van w/ passageway |
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THe program designed to maintain continous monitoring and measurements of the quality of client care delivered to a patient is?
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Quality Assurance (QA)
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A program designed to refine and improve an EMS system, emphasizing customer service sastisfaction?
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Cntinous Quality Improvement
(CQI) |
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What is Peer Review
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EMS personnell reviewing each others reprts, emergency care, and interactions to improve their knowledge and skills
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Standards that govern the conduct of a group or profession
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Ethics
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The conduct/qualities that characterize a practitioner in a particular field
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professionalism
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What is the difference between clean and disinfecting?
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Cleaning is using soap and water
Disinfecting is using a chemical or agent |
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Name the 5 stages of Loss
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1- anger
2-denial 3-bargaining 4- depression 5- acceptance |
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What is a STRESSOR
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A stimulus that causes stress
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What are morals
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social, religious, and personal standards of right and wrong
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Name the 4 different levels of EMS providers
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1-First responder or Emergency Medical responder (EMR)
2- EMT-B or EMT 3- EMT-I or Advanced EMT (AEMT) 4-EMT-P or Paramedic |
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What is the highest level of Trauma care
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Level I trauma center
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Customer satisfaction is called what in the business world
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Service Quality
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Define Patophysiology
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the study of how diseases affects normal body processes
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What is the single most important behavior that you are judged by?
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Honesty
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What are infectious diseases caused by
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Pathogens
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A strategy that is based on the assumption that all blood and bodily fluids are infectious
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Standard Precautions
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Any occurence of blood and bodily fluid coming in contact with intact skin, the eyes, or any other mucous membrane, or parental contact
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Exposure
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Good stress is called?
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eustress
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Name the 3 stages of stress response
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1-Alarm
2-Resistance 3-Exhaustion |
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What is Circadian Rhythms?
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physiological phenomena that occurs at apprx. 24 hour intervals
Also known as sleep deprivation |
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The study of factors that influence the frequency distribution and cause of injury, disease, and other health related events in a population
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Epidemiology
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A real or potential harzardous situation that puts people in danger of sustaining injury
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Injury Risk
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What are ethics as applied to the human body
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Bioethics
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What are the 4 principles of Bioethics?
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1-Beneficence
2-Nonmaleficence 3-Autonomy 4-Justice |
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What is Beneficence
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The principle of doing good for the patient
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What is nonmaleficence
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the obligation not to harm the patient
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What is Autonomy
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a competent adult patient's right to determine what happens to his body (consent)
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What is Justice
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the obligation to treat all patients fairly
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Name the 3 ways to test Ethics
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1- Impartility test- the golden rule
2- Universalizability test- ask if you would do this in all similar circumstances 3- Interpersonal justifiability test- can you justify your actions |