Consent
The right of a patient to make decisions concerning his or her health.
What is patient autonomy?
A verified, physician-signed document verifying that you do not want resuscitative efforts
DNR (Do Not Resuscitate)
Written or electronically recorded portion of the patient care report interaction that becomes part of the patient's permanent medical record.
Documentation
Two different types of reports
CHART, SOAP
The three types of consent?
Expressed, Informed, Implied
A written document that specifies medical treatment for a competent patient
Advanced directive
Facial expressions, body language, and eye contact.
Nonverbal Communications
How do you report errors?
Cross out the mistake and initial it, then write the correct statement
Someone who is under the legal age in most states but can be legally treated as an adult.
Emancipated Minor
Obvious mortal damage, dependent lividity, rigor mortis
Definitive signs of death
Ethnocentrism
The reason a patient called 911
Chief Complaint
Teachers or School officials who can stand in place of a parent or guardian to provide consent for treatment for a child.
In loco parentis
A person who has given permission for their organs to be given away after death
Organ Donors
Questions in which a patient needs to provide some level of detail to answer
Open-ended questions
Written documents, signed by the EMS system's medical director, that outlines specific directions, permissions, and sometimes prohibitions regarding patient care
Standing orders
Something that may be required if the patients who require medical treatment and transportation but are combative and present a significant physical risk to themselves, rescuers, or others.
Forcible restraint
Jewelry specifying an illness that a patients regularly
Medical identification insignia
A close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.
Rapport
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