Specific steps that help to minimize exposure to a patient’s blood and body fluids.
What is Body Substance Isolation?
100
A component of standard precautions that involves all areas of health.
What is Universal Precaution?
100
Steps to take to protect against exposure to body fluids.
Guidelines recommended by CDC.
Reduces risk of disease transmission in health-care setting.
What is Standard Precaution?
100
Any emotional or physical demand that causes stress.
What are Stressors?
100
Daily DOuble
The condition in which the body is invaded by a disease-causing agent. When the body is contaminated with a pathogen.
What is an Infection?
200
You respond to an incident and leave before further help arrives, what have you commited?
NEGLIGENCE
200
Daily Double
The release of a harmful substance into the environment. HAZMAT
What is a Hazardous Material Incident?
200
The personal beliefs that determine how a person actually behaves.
What are VALUES?
200
Any incident in which a fatality may have occurred.
Any situation that causes a rescuer to experience strong emotions.
What is a Critical Incident?
200
The study of the principles that define behavior as right, good, and proper.
What are ETHICS?
300
medical examination to determine overall health status prior to beginning job.
What is Baseline Health Status?
300
Reaction to cumulative stress or to multiple critical incidents.
What is Burnout?
300
To leave a sick or injured patient before equal or more highly trained personnel can assume responsibility for care.
What is ABANDONMENT?
300
An emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition that occurs in response to adverse external influences.
What is Stress?
300
The legal term that means to give formal permission for something to happen.
What is Consent?
400
The following are all examples of:
Synthetic gloves
Face shields or masks
Eye protection
Gowns
What are Personal Protective Equipment?
400
a FAILURE to provide the expected standard of care.
What is NEGLIGENCE?
400
Daily DOuble
4 ways Exposure can take place
1. Ingestion
2. Injection
3.
4.
Absorption
Inhalation
400
A disease causing organism such as a virus or bacterium. Anything foreign that can enter the body and cause harm.
What is a Pathogen?
400
The patient's mental ability to comprehend the situation and make rational decisions regarding his or her medical care.
What is Competence?
500
The legal obligation to provide care.
What is DUTY?
500
Refers to the treatment of information that an individual has disclosed in a relationship of trust and with the expectations that it will not be shared with others.
What is CONFIDENTIALITY?
500
What law was established to protect car providers if they deliver care to a victim.
What is Good Samaritan Law?
500
A formal process in which team of professionals and peer counselors provide emotional and psychological support.
Designed to help EMS personnel cope with job-related stress.
Strictly voluntary.