Team Health Care
Can improve patient outcomes, increase patient satisfaction, and reduce health care costs.
What is Community Paramedicine?
Triage, treatment and transport...
What is a Group?
Each individual is told what to do and often how to do it by his or her supervisor or group leader...
What is a Dependent Group?
"Handed off" from one unit of providers on the team to another...
What is Transferred?
A key goal of EMS Agenda 2050 is EMS systems designed to be inherently safe
What is
1. Minimize exposure to injury, infections, illness, or stress.
2. Culture of safety:
a. Data collection
b. Just culture
c. Coordinated support and resources
d. EMS education initiatives
e. EMS safety standards
f. Reporting and investigation of errors and near misses
EMTs consistently interact and train with the same partner.
What is a Regular Team?
Daily Double....
Consists of health care providers who are assigned specific roles and are working in a coordinated manner under a designated leader...
What is a Team?
A common goal shared by all health care providers that everyone must be committed to....
What is the best possible patient outcome.
Recognizing the importance of each role involved in the transfer of a patient...
What is Respectful Interaction?
As an EMT, there are different ALS skills with which you may be able to _____....
What is Assist?
Are common in volunteer EMS system; May not regularly interact or even know each other.
What is a Temporary Team?
3 types of Groups....
What are Dependent, Independent and Interdependent?
EMTs and other health care providers who function as a true team...
What is an Interdependent Group?
A mutually agreed-upon and standardized patient handoff format...
What is Common Language or System?
In time, emergency health care providers recognized that by working as a unified team from first patient contact to patient discharge, it was possible to improve individual and team performance, patient and provider safety, and, patient outcome.
What is the continuum of care
Fire, Rescue, Tactical or MIH Technicians...
What are Special Teams?
Common goal; Image of themselves as a "group"; Sense of continuity; Set of shared values; Different roles within the group...
What are the 5 essential elements of a Group?
A pit crew approach to CPR for a cardiac situation is an excellent example....
What is Clear Roles and Responsibilities?
In the world of prehospital emergency care ____ and ____ care cannot exist without each other...
What is BLS (Basic Life Support) and ALS (Advanced Life Support)?
Crew resource management (CRM) allows team members to work with the team leader to develop and maintain a shared understanding of an emergency.
CRM recommends the use of the PACE mnemonic:
What is: Probe Alert Challenge Emergency
An organizational level that divides the incident according to functional levels of operation...perform special functions, often across geographic boundaries.
What are Groups?
NIMS...
What is the National Incident Management System?
Daily Double...
All team members expect and deserve to be spoken to politely...
What is Courtesy?
It is your responsibility to understand what is allowed by the __________, standard of care, and local protocols where you work....
What is Scope of Practice?
When any conflict occurs, keep in mind the following five techniques:
What is
1. The patient comes first
2. Do not engage.
3. Keep your cool.
4. Separate the person from the issue.
5. Choose your battles.