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Mod 1 Definitions Flashcards

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Professional

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Member of a profession or any person who earns their living from a specified activity

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Professionalism

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Conduct or qualities that characterize an expert practitioner in a particular field or occupation

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Patient Advocacy

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Preforming in the best I tests of the patient despite the wishes/demands of other parties despite personal/religious beliefs, and while maintaining patient confidentiality

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Accountability

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The fact or condition of being accountable responsibility.

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Respect

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A feeling of admiring someone or something that is good, valuable, important

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Empathy

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Identification with and understanding of another’s situation, feelings and motives

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Compassion

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Deep awareness of the suffering of another couples with the wish to relieve it

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Sincerity

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Virtue of speaking truly about ones feelings,thoughts and desires

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Sympathy

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A feeling or an expression of pity or sorrow for the distress of another; compassion or commiseration

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Dignity

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The quality or state of being worth of esteem and respect

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Diplomacy

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The art of design with people in a sensitive and effective way

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Tact

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Acute sensitivity to what is proper and appropriate in dealing with others, including the ability to speak or act without offending

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Discretion

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The quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offence or revealing private information

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Confidence

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Feeling of assurance, especially of self-assurance

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What does NOCP stand for

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National Occupational Competency Profile

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16
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What are the four Levels of the NOCP

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Emergency medical Responder
Primary Care Paramedic
Advanced Care Paramedic
Critical Care Paramedic

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Certification

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Process by which an agency or association grants recognition to an individual who has met its qualifications

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Licensure

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A process of occupational regulation

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Reciprocity

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Process by which an agency grants certification or licensure to an individual of comparable certification, licensure or registration from another agency

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What is your patient assessment constructed of (4 points)

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Initial Assessment
Physical Examination
Patient hx
Ongoing assessment

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When would you complete a patient care report

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As soon as possible after emergency care has been provided

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22
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What is the sequence of a call (6 points)

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Preperation
Response 
Patient Assessment
Appropriate Disposition
Patient Transfer
Documentation
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23
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What is an expanded scope paramedic

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Expanded scope or community paramedicine moves beyond traditional roles to apply specialized training and skills

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What are some examples of acute settings of paramedics

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Hospitals/Clinical
Collaborative Emergency Centers
Advanced care on Scene
Alternative transport decisions or care plans
Treat and release
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What are some non-acute settings

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Primary care 
Public health
Home visits
Partnerships with other health or public safety organizations
Isolated communities
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26
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What are the components of physical fitness

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Muscular strength
Cardio
Flexibility and strength 
Nutrition and weight control
Disease prevention 
Freedom from harmful habits and addictions
Back safety
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Isometric

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Exercise is active exercise performed against stable resistance

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Isotonic

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Excel use is active exercise during which muscles are worked through their range of motion

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Proteins

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Utilized to help build, maintain and repair body tissues as well as other vital functions

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Carbohydrates

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Sugars used for energy

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Cholesterol

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A white waxy substance found in every cell and needed for normal body function. Cholesterol is manufactured in the liver and circulating levels are significantly affected by diet

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Saturated fat

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Considered bad fats, cause cholesterol to rise by shutting down the process that removes excess cholesterol

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33
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Unsaturated

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Good fats

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34
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Trans fats

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Manufactured fats

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35
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What is BSI

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Body substance isolation

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36
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What does BSI control

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What PPE a medic is to wear in what situations

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37
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What’s assumption should be made with all blood and bodily fluids

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All blood and bodily fluids are infectious

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38
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Most important infection control is?

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Hand washing

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39
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What is cleaning

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refers to washing an object with soap and water

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Disinfecting

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Includes cleaning with a disinfectant

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Sterilizing

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Use of chemical or steam to kill all microorganisms on an object

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42
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What are your post exposure procedures

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Immediately wash affected areas
Get a medical evaluation
Take the immunization booster
Notify the agency’s infection control liaison
Notify your supervisor if required
Document the event
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Epidemiology

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Study of factors that influence the frequency , distribution, and cause of injury disease and other related events in population

44
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Injury

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Intentional or unintentional damage to a person resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical or chemical energy or from the absence of such essentials like heat or oxygen

45
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What is the number one killer of people under the age of 45 in Canada

A

Injury

46
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Accident

A

Unfortunate incident that happened unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury

47
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When do teachable moments occur

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Shortly after injury.

48
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What percent of prehospital workers have back injuries

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64%

49
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Emergency move

A

An unstable or unsafe scene may require that the patients get moved before emergency can begin

50
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What situations would you use an emergency mover

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Fire or threat of fire
Explosion or threat of explosion
Inability to protect patient from hazards of the scene
Inability to gain access to patients who need life-saving care
When life saveing care cannot be given due to patient locating

51
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Non-emergency moves

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Generally performed with other rescuers

52
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What are the five principles of the Canadian Health ACT

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-Public administration
Comprehensiveness
Universality
Portability
Accessibility
53
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What is your best protection from liability suits

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Perform systemic assessments, provide appropriate medical care and maintain accurate and complete documentation

54
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Scope of practice

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Range of duties and skills that paramedics are allowed and expected to perform
Typical determined bu on-line off-line medical direction

55
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What are the mandatory reporting requirements

A 
Child Abuse 
Spousal abuse and neglect
Elder abuse
GSW
Fatalities
Communicable diseases
56
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What are the four kinds of child abuse

A

Physical
Emotional
Sexual
Neglect

57
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How does the legislation for adult abuse vary between NS and NB

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NB requirements currently exist in NB but do in NS

58
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Negligence

A

Deviation from the accepted standard of care recognized by law for the protection of other against the unreasonable risk of harm

59
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What are the 4 components of a negligence claim

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Duty to Act
Breach of duty
Actual damages
Proximate cause

60
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What is Duty to Act

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Formal contractual or informal legal obligation to provide care

61
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Malfeasance

A

Performance of a wrongful or unlawful act by a paramedic

62
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Misfeasance

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Performance of a legal act in a harmful or injurious manner

63
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Nonfeasance

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Failure to perform a required act or duty

64
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Actual Damage

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Refers to compensate physical, psychological, or financial harm

65
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Act of commission

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Performing an act that results in some harm

66
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Act of omission

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The failure to perform an act

67
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Act of demission

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Withdrawing a treatment

68
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Borrowed servant doctrine

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Using someone else’s license while on truck time as a student

69
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Emergency doctorine vs implied consent

A

The same thing

70
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When can confidentiality be breached

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Patient consent
Other medical providers who need to know (treatment circle)
Required by law
Their party billing requirements

71
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Defamation

A

An intentional false communication that injures a another persons reputation or good name.

72
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Libel defamation

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Written defamation that destroy reputation or taints their good name

73
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Slander defamation

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Spoken defamation that destroy the reputation or good name of a person

74
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Consent

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Granting of position to threat a patient

Must always have consent before treating a patient

75
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Informed consent

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Conscious competent patients have the right to decide what medical care to.

76
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What age must you be to give consent

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18

77
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Expressed consent

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Verbal, non verbal or written communications by a patient who wishes to receive treatment

78
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Implied consent

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Consent for treatment that is presumed for a patient who is mentally, physically, or emotionally unable to give consent

79
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Involuntary consent

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Typically given by court order, most commonly with patients who must be held for mental-health evaluations or as directed by law enforcement

80
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What is an emancipated minor

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Person under 18 who 
Married
Pregnant
A parent 
A member of the armed forces
Financially independent living away from home
81
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When can a patient withdraw consent

A

A patient may withdraw consent at any time

82
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Decision making capacity

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A persons ability to make and express a reasonable choice

83
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NOBI

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No one brought in

84
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Abandonment

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Termination of the paramedic-patient relationship without assurance that an equal or greater level of care will continue

85
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Assault

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An act of unlawfully placing a person in apprehension of immediate bodily harm without his or her consent

86
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Battery

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Unlawful touching of another person without his or her consent

87
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Advanced Direction

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Document created to ensure that certain treatment choices are honoured when a patient is unconscious or otherwise unable to express his or her choice of treatment

88
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Ethic

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Are the rules of standards that govern the conduct of members of a particular group or profession

89
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Morals

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Are the social religious or personal standards of right and wrong

90
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Beneficence

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Principle of doing good for the patient

91
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Nonmaleficience

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The obligation not to harm the patient

92
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Autonomy

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A competent adults patients right to determine what happens to his or own body

93
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Justice

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Refers to the obligation to treat all patients fairly

94
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Impartiality test

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Asks whether you would be willing to undergo the procedure or action if you were in the patients place

95
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Universalizability Test

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Asks whether you would wan this action performed in all relevant similar circumstances

96
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Advocacy

A

Always have patients interests in mind

97
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How to avoid conflict about being a student

A

Clearly identify as a student

Preceptor should step in and say something

98
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What is a patient care report

A

Document used to effectively document essential elements of patient assessment care and transport

99
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Why write a patient care report

A

Written, legal record of incident
Used for medical audit and quality improvement
Billing and administration
Data collection and research

100
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What are the characteristics of a good patient care report

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Appropriate med term spelling and grammar
Correct abbreviations and acronyms
Accurate and consistent times
Thoroughly documented actions
Pertinent negatives
Identification of additional resources and personnel on scene

101
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What to include in a patient care report

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All dates and response times
Difficulties to get to site ie traffic etc
Observations on scene
Medical History
Times of significant occurrences, interventions directives

102
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Properly written EMS document is (5 points)

A 
Accurate 
Legible
Timely 
Unaltered
Free of non profession extraneous info
103
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Pertinent negatives

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Those that warrant no medical care or intervention but which by seeking them shows evidence of thoroughness of the paramedics examination and history of the event

104
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What is the SOAP Method for narrative

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Subjective; what the patient told you
Objective; what you see, hear and touch
Assessment; things found wrong during your assessment
Plan; what you plan on doing for the patient (divided into three sections, diagnostics, therapeutics, patient education

105
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What does CHART stand for

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Chief complaint 
History/present illness
Assessment 
Rx (treatment)
Transport

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