Roles & Responsibilities of an EMT
An EMT's top priority
Personal Saftey
The successful completion of a recognized ________ is required to obtain an EMT license.
Hint: All of us have done this
Healthcare Provider Course
The reason EMT's collect a patient's social security #
Billing Purposes
The area in which an EMS service operates in
Primary Service Area
It is ______'s responsibility to continue education in EMS skills
The Individual
Patients who have bad attitudes should be treated like this
Respectfully and Calmly
The _____________ protects people who have disabilities from being denied access to programs and services provided by the state or local government and prohibits employers from failing to provide full and equal employment to the disabled.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
The Dispatch Center
Designates what an EMT is required to for a specific complaint of condition
Standing Orders
A purpose of patient documentation aside from continuum of care and justification of actions
Data Collection
This Act ensures that patients medical information remains private
HIPPA
A Document created by the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) that outlines skills performed by various EMS providers
National EMS Scope of Practice Model
The collaboration of EMS systems with local hospitals to improve patient care.
Integration of Health Services
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
Encourages team members at every level of the health care system to ask "What can we do better?" and "How are we doing?"
The branch of medicine that is focused on examining the health needs of entire populations with the goal of preventing health problems
Public Health
There are eleven professional attributes that EMTs are recommended to have. Name three of them.
Integrity, Empathy, Respect, Communications, Self-confidence, Self-motivation, Patient Advocacy, Careful Delivery of Care, Teamwork and Diplomacy, Time Management, & Appearance and Hygiene
Licensure is a _______ function
Hint: Think Administrative Tiers
State
This model of healthcare is provided within the community instead of in a physcianś office and is geared towards making health care more affordable.
Mobile Integrated Health Care (MIH)
Consists of training, standing orders, and supervision authorized by the medical director
Off-line Medical Control
Evidence Based Medicine
1. Comprehensive, Quality, Convent Care 2. Evidence Based Clinical Care 3. Efficient, Well-rounded Care 4. Preventative Care 5. Comprehensive and Easily Accessible Pt. Records
Make Up...
EMS Agenda 2050 Components
EMS as we know it today had it's origins with this book
Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society
A newer branch of medicine that involves specially trained paramedics whose jobs are to tend to the needs of a single specific community
Community Paramedicine
Allows EMS providers to practice in other states for a short period of time, without them needing to get a license in that state.
REPLICA
Trying to decrease the effects of an event after it has already happened or something that once employed decreases the effects of an event during the event
Secondary Prevention Strategy