Chapter 1 Vital Flashcards
Vocab
A recall of personnel to on-duty status, usually because of an emergency situation.
Call Back
A document that specifies that a student has successfully completed the prerequisite education and training to perform a job function, such as firefighter 1 or emergency medical technician.
Certification
The process of examining, analyzing, questioning, and challenging situations, issues, and information of all kinds.
Critical thinking
Memorization of specific pieces of information and development of an understanding of concepts or philosophies.
Education
A specified level of medical training that usually consists of approximately 100 hours of a classroom and practical training and the completion of national registry examination.
Emergency medical technician
The act of performing operations without a coordinated effort or the knowledge of one’s superior officer.
Freelance
training in the operations of tools and equipment.
Manipulative Training
A disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
The ability to figure out the operation and construction of equipment from drawings.
Mechanical Aptitude
The time firefighters spend performing their jobs.
On-duty
An interview technique in which the interviewers ask questions and evaluate the answers given by job candidates. They assign a score to the candidates responses for ranking purposes during the selection process.
Oral Interview
A person with an advanced level of medical training. Paramedics can perform invasive procedures on the patient, such as starting intravenous lines.
Paramedic
A listing of a person’s areas of experience and education.
Resume
A training program in which the student must meet prerequisites of education and experience to take a training course. Once the course is completed, the student then completes a task book for the position, requiring classroom and/or incident experience. Once the task book is completed, the person receives certification for the new position.
Performance- based training
A person hired by the fire department who has not been granted permanent status.
Probationary Firefighter
Log used to verify competency in particular skills. A trainer must certify that the skill was performed in a satisfactory manner in a field and/or classroom environment.
Task book
People with extensive training in one or more areas of operations or information.
Specialist
Points added to a person’s final score on a competitive examination process; given to personas who have satisfactorily performed military service.
Veterans’ points
The pursuit of a particular skill.
Training
