Health & Safety

Question 1

List the components of a balances, healthy lifestyle

Answer 1

Cardiovascular endurance, strength and flexibility, nutrition, weight control, disease prevention,
freedom from harmful habits and addictions and back safety

Question 2

Define stress:

Answer 2

A hardship or strain; a physical or psychological arousal to stimulus

Question 3

Define stress disorder:

Answer 3

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); mental health condition triggered by a terrifying event

Question 4

Discuss techniques to manage stress:

Answer 4

Controlled breathing, deal with negative thoughts, attend to medical needs to the patient

Question 5

What is critical incident stress management?

Answer 5

A system of related interventions usually preformed by specifically trained mental health workers.

Question 6

List the effects of shift work on physical and mental health:

Answer 6

Sleep deprivation, GI symptoms, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, depression, pregnancy
complications, and cancer

Question 7

Describe the physical capabilities required of a paramedic:

Answer 7

Cardiovascular endurance, strength and flexibility, nutrition and weigh control, disease prevention, back
safety, no harmful addictions.

Question 8

Define safe body mechanics:

Answer 8

Is the safest and most efficient method of using your body to gain a mechanical advantage

Question 9

List strategies used to reduce risk of injury:

Answer 9

Protection of EMS (BSI), education of EMS, data collection (records of illness/injuries, financial support (donations), empowerment of EMS provider

Question 10

List equipment for patient transfer:

Answer 10

Stretchers, stair chair, scoop, short backboard, long backboard, ked

Question 11

Explain techniques of patient transfer using specific equipment:

Answer 11

Sheets, keds, spine board

Question 12

Describe emergency lifting techniques:

Answer 12

Shirt drag, shoulder and forearm drag, firefighter drags, piggyback, crutch, cradle carry, sheet drag

Question 13

Define scene safety:

Answer 13

Doing everything possible to ensure a safe environment

Question 14

Describe factors contributing to scene safety:

Answer 14

You, your crew, responding personnel, your patients, bystanders, people’s behaviour, surroundings, bystanders information

Question 15

List potential occupational hazards:

Answer 15

Infection/contamination, physical injury, stress, burnout, driving hazards

Question 16

Describe basic, non-mechanical patient extraction:

Answer 16

Non mechanical patient extrication does not include motorized equipment such as firefighter pincers,
Jaws of Life, ext.

Question 17

Describe methods of diffusing

Answer 17

Use appropriate tone and volume, active listening, empathy not sympathy, refrain from using emotional responses, apologize when warranted

Question 18

Describe methods of self protection:

Answer 18

BSI: Body substance Isolation – goggles, gloves, hazmat gear, helmet, mask, respirator

Question 19

What is Hazmat and WHMIS:

Answer 19

Hazmat – hazardous material

WHMIS – Workplace hazardous materials information system

Question 20

Describe common routes for transmissions of disease and infection:

Answer 20

Direct – direct contact, droplet spread

Indirect – airborne, vehicle route, vector borne (mechanical, biological)

Question 21

Define infection control precautions:

Answer 21

BSI (protective gloves, masks, protective eyewear, HEPA, gowns), disposable resuscitation devices

Question 22

Describe the appropriate procedures for the disposal of sharps and contaminated supplies:

Answer 22

By law, every medical organization which have biological hazards must have a biological exposure plan. Sharps container, biohazard bag, container.

Question 23

Describe techniques used to clean and disinfect:

Answer 23

Clean – refers to washing an object with soap and water
Disinfecting – includes cleaning with a disinfecting agent, which should kill many microorganisms on the surface of an object.