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14 Cards in this Set
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Roles and Responsibilities
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1. Personal safety
2. Safety of the crew patient and bystanders 3. patient assessment and care 4. Lifting and moving patients 5.Transport and transfer of care 6. Patient Avocacy |
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Personal safety
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maintaining a helathy body
be physically fit BSI survey for potiental hazards |
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Crew patient and Bystander safety
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maintain scene saftey
stress management providing for the patient w/o endangering comunication |
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Patient advocacy
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make sure needs are met:
privacy legal rights dignity |
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What federal agency has developed standards for training and development of the EMS system?
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NHTSA
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what is a role or responsibility of the emt-basic?
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Patient assessment
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Professional appearance helps families cope with what?
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Anxiety
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Define:
Quality Improvement |
A system for continuously evaluating and improving the care provided within an EMS system
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What should an EMT basic do to keep up-to-date knowledge and skills?
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Attend conferences
Read professional journals attend continueing education sessions |
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Define:
Medical Direction (medical control) |
Physicians monitor care provided by EMT basic. Some skills require medical direction
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Components of Medical Direction
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Indirect
direct |
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Direct Medical Diection
(online) |
cellular phone
telephone radio Patient can speak directly w physician |
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Indirect Medical direction
(off-line) |
protocols
Standing orders Quality Improvement sytem planning Attending educational classes |
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When is the medial director helpful?
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before during and after patient interactions
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