ACRONYMS
CQI
What is Continuous Quality Improvement?
An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous therapy, and the administration of certain emergency medications
What is Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT)?
A call center, staffed by trained personnel who are responsible for managing requests for police, fire, and ambulance services
What is Public Access Point?
Able to understand others and have them understand you.
What is Communicating?
The process whereby a competent authority, usually the state, allows people to perform a regulated act.
What is licensure?
EBM
What is Evidence Based Medicine?
The type of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation required to participate in and EMT certification course.
What is BLS CPR?
A system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance and provides callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews.
What is Emergency Medical Dispatch?
Able to discover problems and solve them without direction.
What is Self-Confidence?
A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care.
What is Certification?
HIPAA
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability?
An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, including endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacology, and other advanced assessment and treatment skills.
What is a Paramedic?
The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medical care in the field
Who is the Medical Director or EMS Physician?
Placing others in high regard or importance; understands others are more important than self.
What is respect?
Oversight by the medical director to ensure the appropriate medical care standards are met by EMT's on each call.
What is Quality Control?
IV
What is Intravenous Therapy?
A first trained professional, such a police officer, firefighter, lifeguard, or other rescuer, who may arrive first at the scene of an emergency to provide initial medical assistance.
What is an Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)?
The designated area in which the EMS agency is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital.
What is the primary service area?
Constantly keeps the needs of the patient at the center of care.
What is Patient Advocacy?
What is Primary Prevention?
MIH
What is Mobile Integrated Health Care?
An individual who has training in basic life support, including automated external defibrillation, use of a definitive airway adjunct, and assisting patients with certain medications.
What is an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)?
A health care model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to equip them to provide additional services in the prehospital environment.
Being aware of and thoughtful toward the needs of others.
What is Empathy?
Obtaining continuing medication education hours in this course is the responsibility of this person?
Who is the individual EMT?