Professionalism Flashcards
DEFINITION
The ability to see a situation from the viewpoint of the person experiencing it.
empathy.
How far is the patients ‘private/personal space’?
4-5 feet or two arm lengths away.
DEFINITION
Seeing one’s own life as the most acceptable or best. It includes acting in a superior manner toward another culture’s way.
Ethnocentrism.
DEFINITION
Forcing one’s beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior on people from another culture.
Cultural Imposition.
DEFINITION
Questions that are restrictive in form and can be answered with a “yes” or “no”.
closed-ended questions.
DEFINITION
Questions asked in a narrative form that cannot be answered with a “yes” or “no”.
open-ended questions.
DEFINITION
The act of interpreting symbols and format.
Decoding.
DEFINITION
The act of placing a message in an understandable format written or verbal.
Encoding.
DEFINITION
Discipline relating to right or wrong, moral duty and obligation, moral principles and values, and moral character, a standard for honorable behavior designed by a group with expected conformity.
The rules or standards that govern the conduct of members of a particular group or profession.
What is right.
Ethics
DEFINITION
Social standards or customs; dealing with what is right or wrong in a practical sense.
Social, religious, or personal standards of right and wrong.
Morals
DEFINITION
Define Beneficence.
The principle of doing good for the patient.
Hint letter F
DEFINITION
The DESIRE to do good.
Benevolence.
Hint letter V and how much you desire it.
DEFINITION
The obligation not to harm the patient.
Not doing harm.
Latin phrase, “primum non nocere”, which means “first, do no harm”.
Non Malfeasance.
Hint non = not
DEFINITION
a competent adult patient’s right to determine what happens to his own body, including treatment for medical illnesses and injuries.
Autonomy
DEFINITION
Asks whether you would be willing to undergo this procedure or action if you were in the patient’s place.
Impartiality Test
DEFINITION
Asks whether you would want this action performed in all relevantly similar circumstances, which helps the paramedic to avoid short-sightedness.
Universalizability Test
DEFINITION
Asks whether you can defend or justify your actions to others.
Interpersonal Justifiability Test
DEFINITION
Defending them, protecting them, and acting in their best interests.
patient advocacy
DEFINITION
A range of duties and skills paramedics are allowed and expected to perform.
scope of Practice
DEFINITION
The performance of a wrongful or unlawful act by the paramedic. Example, a paramedic commits BLANK if she assaults a patient.
Doing harm.
Opposite if Beneficence.
Malfeasance
Hint Mal as in Maleficent
DEFINITION
It’s the performance of a legal action in a manner that is harmful or injurious. Example intubated a patient but fails to confirm placement and leaves the tube in place.
Misfeasance
Hint = MIS miss do
DEFINITION
Is the failure to perform a required act or duty. Example, failing to fully immobilize an MVC patient complaining of neck and back pain.
Nonfeasance
DEFINITION
Unlawfully placing a person in apprehension of immediate bodily harm without consent. Example, scaring your patient who is afraid of needles with an IV.
Assault
DEFINITION
Unlawful touching of another individual without consent.
Battery
DEFINITION
A process of regulating occupations through licenses granted by a government authority.
A process by which a regulatory agency grants permission to engage in a given occupation to an applicant who has attained the degree of competency required to ensure the public’s protection.
Licensure
DEFINITION
A process by which authority is granted to a persons to take part in an activity. This person has to meet certain qualifications.
The process by which a regulatory agency or association grants recognition and the ability to practice to an individual who has met its qualifications.
Certification
DEFINITION
The act of enrolling one’s name in a register, or book of record.
Registration
DEFINITION
A local process that allows a paramedic to practice in a specific EMS agency (or setting).
Credentialing
DEFINITION
A set of guidelines that are designed to set out acceptable behaviors for members of a particular group, association, or profession.
Code of ethics
DEFINITION
Refers to the existence of a specialized body of knowledge or skills.
Profession
BLANK is a pediatric or adult center that has been designated and funded by a provincial or territorial Ministry of Health.
Often a teaching hospital affiliated with a university and involved in research. It is the regional referral center for seriously injured patients.
One of the most important guidelines is the availability of a 24-hour trauma response team to provide prompt resuscitation and treatment to seriously injured patients.
Tertiary Trauma Centre
BLANK is designated by a health authority and may function as a trauma center in smaller communities or support tertiary center.
Maybe a teaching hospital and affiliated with a university or community facility.
BLANK provides 24-hour trauma response team to provide prompt resuscitation and treatment of injured patients.
District Trauma Center
BLANK is designated by the health authority and is accredited by its regional accredited trauma program.
Usually a smaller rural medical center or nursing station that provides initial triage for all trauma situations. This center refers all but minor trauma patients to District Trauma Centers.
Primary Trauma Center
DEFINITION
The principle of doing good for the patient. Actually doing good.
Opposite of Malfeasance.
Beneficence
DEFINITION
Washing an object with such cleaners as soap and water.
Cleaning
DEFINITION
cleaning with an agent that can kill some microorganisms on the surface of an object.
Use a commercial disinfectant or bleach diluted.
Disinfecting
DEFINITION
Use of a chemical or physical method, such as pressurized steam, to kill all microorganisms on an object.
Can also use heat or radiation.
Sterilizing
DEFINITION
Active exercise performed against stable resistance, in which muscles are exercised in a motionless manner.
Isometric exercise
DEFINITION
Active exercise during which muscles are worked through their range of motion.
Isotonic exercise
