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Chapter 4 Fire Officers Communications Flashcards

1
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A repetitive circular process

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Communication

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The sender can be sure that the message was received when

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When a confirmation of the information is received

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The communication cycle consists of 5 parts

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M- Message
S- Sender
M- Medium
R- Receiver
F- Feedback
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The text of the information

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Message

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The information to be conveyed either spoken or written

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Message

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The person or entity that is sending the message

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Sender

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Refers to the method used to convey the information

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Medium

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Spoken words, radio system, written words, pictures, gestures, bulletin boards, formal line up even the firehouse meal can be examples of

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the Medium

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The person who receives and interprets the message

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Receiver

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who is responsible to ensure the message is properly expressed and interpreted?

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The sender and the receiver

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11
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confirmation that the message was received and understood

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Feedback

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a supervisors success depends on Active Listening and

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how freely subordinates talk to you

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good eye contact, alert body posture, frequent use of verbal engagement

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important features of face to face communication

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4 actions to take when practicing Active Listening

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  1. Do not assume or anticipate what will be said
  2. Do not interrupt
  3. Look for real reason person wants your attention
  4. Do not act quickly or jump to conclusions
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  1. Don’t get side tracked

2. If the speaker starts to ramble ask a specific question that moves the conversation back to the appropriate subject

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Stay focused

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ensuring accuracy requires knowledge of things such as

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  • Personnel regulations
  • Approved dept. budget
  • Union contract
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To ensure accuracy if you become aware of inaccurate information “ through the grapevine” correct the information asap. this is known as

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Rumor control

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3 important Effective Communication skills

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  • Active listening
  • Stay focused
  • Ensure Accuracy
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Keep your Chief Officer informed in 3 areas

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1- Progress reports on goals and projects
2- Matters that may cause controversy
3- Attitudes and Morale

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information based on partial truths, a vacuum that exists when information is with held contributes to inaccurate information.
This describes

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The Grapevine

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Physical or sociological condition that interferes with the message

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Environmental

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Background conversations, outside noise such as sirens, radio feedback, squealing etc.

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Physical noise

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overcoming noise 8 important points

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  • do not struggle for power
  • avoid an offhand manner
  • keep emotions in check
  • remember that words have meaning
  • Do not assume that the receiver understands the message
  • immediately seek feedback
  • provide appropriate
    level of detail
  • watch out for conflicting orders
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8 points of Emergency communications

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1- be direct
2- speak clearly
3- normal tone of voice
4- (radio) mic 2 inch from mouth
5- (repeater) allow for delay after keying mic
6- plain english
7- use common terminology (NIMS)
8- avoid proximity of other loud noise.
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Radio messages should be (A B C)

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accurate, brief, clear

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Process of gathering and considering pertinent details of an incident

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the mental process of gathering all of the pertinent details of a given incident

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Radio reports should be

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Clear and Brief

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sensitive info should be given

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face to face

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types of reports

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  • Verbal- face to face
  • CAN (conditions actions needs)
  • Written
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The Morning report may be a phone report or written report and should include information about

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Personnel,
programs,
equipment and
facilities

32
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NIFRS

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National Fire Incident Reporting System

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Incident reports for each emergency response should be completed in what system

34
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what agency created NIFRS to gather statistics

35
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7 reports that require expanded report narratives

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  1. 1st arriving to fire with injury or fatality
  2. 1st arriving to fire with crime scene or arson
  3. 1st arriving to a rescue or other reason for award.
  4. Company participated in unusual, difficult or high profile activity that requires review.
  5. company activity that could have contributed to a death or serious injury.
  6. company activity that may result in liability
  7. company activity that lead to an investigation
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infrequent reports

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  1. FF injury
  2. citizen complaint
  3. Property damage
  4. vehicle accident
  5. new equipment eval
  6. suggestions to improve operations
  7. response to grevience or complaint
  8. Firefighter work improvement plan
  9. Request for other agency service
37
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a report required to start a state workers comp claim

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supervisors report

38
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State work comp requires what type of report to initiate a claim

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supervisors report

39
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A detailed account of activities, a narrative of actions at an incident.

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Chronological statement of events

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chronological statement of events

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a detailed formal report

41
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Report system used to tabulate numbers and information into columns and rows as a means to analyze data

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Spreadsheats

42
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“If its not written down”

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” it didn’t happen”

43
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Internal emails, memos, instant messages, phone and text messages

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informal messages

44
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An official document on FD letterhead. Usually signed by the Fire Chief

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Formal Communications

45
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before formal communications are sent out they

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should be reviewed by an aide for grammar and spelling.

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Written organizational directives that establish or prescribe specific operational methods to be followed routinely for designated operations or actions

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Formal documents that address a specific subject, policy or situation.

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General Orders

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Bulletins, newsletters, web sites etc. for short term non essential information

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Anouncements

49
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Legal correspondance

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includes interrogatory’s ( series of written questions asked by an opposing party) Requires answers under oath

50
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a document that suggests particular action or decision

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Recommendation report

51
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Provides enough information that the deciding body accepts your recommendation

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Decision document

52
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a Decision Document may include

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  1. Statement of the problem or issue
  2. Background
  3. Restrictions that could affect a decision i.e. laws, budget, and staff restrictions, union contracts etc.
  4. provide more than one option
  5. recommendation
  6. next action
53
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HIPAA

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

54
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provides criminal and civil penalties protecting patients from unauthorized use of their information

55
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There are 2 forms of written communication, they are:

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Informal communication
And
Formal communication

56
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Continually changing utilization of digital communications, users creat online communities to share info, ideas, personal message, videos, pictures and other contents

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Social media

57
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stay focused

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  1. Don’t get side tracked

2. If the speaker starts to ramble ask a specific question that moves the conversation back to the appropriate subject.

58
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The human brain has difficulty processing more than (how many) input sources

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More than one input source

59
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Generally, who completes a NFIRS report for each response, including a narrative description of the situation and the action that was taken

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The first arriving officer or

The incident commander

60
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A verbal presentation of a written document should consist (how many parts, what are they)?

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  1. An introduction that gets the audiences attention
  2. An interest statement
  3. Report details
  4. The action the audience should take

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