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PCR
What is Patient Care Report?
Meeting a set number of training hours and topics to be able to recertify as an EMT in 4 years.
What is continuing education?
Providing care to a minor who is seriously injured and no guardians are around to give consent is considered _______ _______.
What is implied consent?
If it isn't documented it _______ ________.
What is it didn't happen?
Ways to communicate with the hearing impaired.
What is American sign language, Writing with pen and paper, reading lips, and Showing pictures?
Additional resources for an electrical emergency. Other than the fire department.
What is the power company?
QA
What is Quality Assurance?
Examples of Maintaining wellness.
What is Proper diet, Exercise, Sleep and stress relief?
Treatment of a pt with a valid advanced directive.
What is provide palliative care and transport if requested. Follow specific directions such as no CPR or advanced airway.
Types of consent.
What is Informed, Implied, expressed, and involuntary?
Three examples of effective communication skills.
What are...
Identify yourself
Be aware of how you present yourself
Look pt at eye level
Speak slowly and distinctly
Only One person asking questions
Give pt time to respond
Listen to answers
Explain treatment and procedures
Do not talk about the pt in front of them as if they were not there.
Additional resources for a pt pinned in by the dashboard.
What is rescue? Fire department with extrication tools such as Cutter, spreader, rams, air bags, and cribbing.
LEO
What is Law Enforcement Officer?
The responsibility of the medical director is to ensure the appropriate medical care standards are met by EMTs on each call.
What is Quality control, or Quality Assurance?
Examples of Definitive Care.
What is Emergency Room Doctor, Operating room surgeon. Cardiac cath Lab. Intervention radiology, Level one trauma center, Intensive care unit?
Statutory provisions to protect citizens from liability for errors or omissions in giving good faith emergency medical care.
What are good Samaritan laws?
If a pt speaks only Spanish.
What is using an interpreter, Using hand gestures, or Drawing pictures? Or use a phone app to translate keywords.
Additional resources for a victim being held hostage by a gunman.
What is LEO and Special Operations tactical response team?
ICS
What is Incident Command System?
Characteristics of professional behavior.
What is, understanding, Compassion, respect. Your professional appearance and manor help build confidence and ease pt anxiety.
These things need to be Communicated on the scene of a pt who is refusing treatment.
What is the benefit and risk of treatment recommended, Risks of refusal including death if not transported, talk to family to get encouragement to transport, discuss with medical control, and explain the willingness of EMS to be called back to the scene.
Reciprocity
What is a method for obtaining a certification in another state?
A pt tells you they are going to die or asks you if they are going to die.
What is believe what they say, and prepare for imminent cardiac arrest? Be honest with them but reassure them that everything will be done to obtain the best outcome. Do not lie to the patient.
Addition resources when you have too many patients than your immediate EMS response can handle.
What is MCI response?
**DAILY DOUBLE**
START
What is Simple Triage And Rapid Treatment?
EMS research can involve these ideas.
Collecting data, analyzing pt care reports, public education, and being skeptical of others ideas until it is proven to work in your setting.
If a pt tells you that he will go to the hospital but no matter what you say he will not let you Splint his leg you should.......
What is Transport and allow pt to refuse part of your care? Document the refusal and obtain refusal signatures.
Giving medication or performing a procedure predesignated by a medical director in the local protocols.
What are standing orders?
Verbal and nonverbal communication techniques encourage pts to express their feelings and to achieve a positive outcome.
What is Therapeutic communication?
Additional resources for a child who is trapped in a building that has been partially destroyed by a tornado.
What is a structural collapse specialty rescue team or urban rescue?