Vocabulary
Introduction
Medical/Legal
You have to Stand for something
Random
100
A policy or protocol issued by a medical director that authorizes EMT's and others to perform particular skills in certian situations.
What is Standing Orders?
100
Your first responsibility at any scene is the safety of...
What is Personal Safety.
100
leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
What is Abandonment.
100

EMTP

What is an Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic 

100

The name of the move in which a patient is dragged or pulled from a dangerous scene before an assessment or care is provided

What is an Emergency Move

200
A strict form of infection control that is based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are infectious.
What is Standard Precautions?
200
There are four general levels of EMS training and certification. (list from lowest to highest)
What is first responder, EMT basic, EMT intermediate, and EMT paramedic.
200
The consent it is presumed a patient or patients parent would give if they could such as for an unconscioius patient or a parent who cannot be contacted when care is needed.
What is implied consent.
200

OSHA

What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration

200
List the 3 types of moves.
What is emergancy moves, urgent moves, and non-urgent moves
300
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent and limits, of the EMT's job.
What is Scope of Practice?
300
Medical director issues a standing order that allows EMT's to give medication in certian circumstances without speaking directly to the medical director. This is known as..
What is offline medical direction.
300
A finding of failure to act properly in a situation i which there was a duty to act and that harm was caused to the patient as a result.
What is Negligence.
300

HIPAA

What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ACT 

300
to prevent ingury when lifting a patient. two methods commonly used are...
What is power lift, and power grip.
400
A method of lifting and carrying a patient during which one rescuer slips hand under the patient's armpits and grasps the wrists, while another rescuer grasps the patients knees.
What is Extremity Lift?
400

After the successful completion of an EMT Basic Class you will take the NREMT Exam, successful completion of that exam you become _________

What is Certified

400
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent, and lmits of the EMT's job
What is scope of practice.
400

CISM

What is Critical Incident Stress Management 

400

In what year was the White Paper published

What is 1966

500

A method of delivering health care which involves providing health care within the community rather that at a doctors office or hospital  

What is Mobil Integrated Healthcare 

500

The document that was created by NTHSA in 1990 to create a plan to standardize all levels of EMS Providers

What is the EMS Agenda for the Future 

500
A federal law protecting the privacy of the patients specific health care information and providing the patient with control over how this information is used and distributed
What is HIPPA.
500

NHSTA

What is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

500

The process by which states ensure applicant competency

. What is Licensure

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