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Professionalism Flashcards

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DEFINITION

The ability to see a situation from the viewpoint of the person experiencing it.

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empathy.

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How far is the patients ‘private/personal space’?

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4-5 feet or two arm lengths away.

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DEFINITION

Seeing one’s own life as the most acceptable or best. It includes acting in a superior manner toward another culture’s way.

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Ethnocentrism.

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DEFINITION

Forcing one’s beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior on people from another culture.

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Cultural Imposition.

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DEFINITION

Questions that are restrictive in form and can be answered with a “yes” or “no”.

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closed-ended questions.

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DEFINITION

Questions asked in a narrative form that cannot be answered with a “yes” or “no”.

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open-ended questions.

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DEFINITION

The act of interpreting symbols and format.

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Decoding.

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DEFINITION

The act of placing a message in an understandable format written or verbal.

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Encoding.

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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.

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Ethics

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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.

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Morals

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DEFINITION

Define Beneficence.

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The principle of doing good for the patient.

Hint letter F

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DEFINITION

The DESIRE to do good.

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Benevolence.

Hint letter V and how much you desire it.

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DEFINITION

The obligation not to harm the patient.

Not doing harm.

Latin phrase, “primum non nocere”, which means “first, do no harm”.

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Non Malfeasance.

Hint non = not

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DEFINITION

a competent adult patient’s right to determine what happens to his own body, including treatment for medical illnesses and injuries.

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Autonomy

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DEFINITION

Asks whether you would be willing to undergo this procedure or action if you were in the patient’s place.

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Impartiality Test

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DEFINITION

Asks whether you would want this action performed in all relevantly similar circumstances, which helps the paramedic to avoid short-sightedness.

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Universalizability Test

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DEFINITION

Asks whether you can defend or justify your actions to others.

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Interpersonal Justifiability Test

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DEFINITION

Defending them, protecting them, and acting in their best interests.

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patient advocacy

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DEFINITION

A range of duties and skills paramedics are allowed and expected to perform.

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scope of Practice

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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.

A

Malfeasance

Hint Mal as in Maleficent

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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.

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Misfeasance

Hint = MIS miss do

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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.

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Nonfeasance

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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.

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Assault

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DEFINITION

Unlawful touching of another individual without consent.

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Battery

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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.

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Licensure

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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.

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Certification

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DEFINITION

The act of enrolling one’s name in a register, or book of record.

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Registration

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DEFINITION

A local process that allows a paramedic to practice in a specific EMS agency (or setting).

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Credentialing

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DEFINITION

A set of guidelines that are designed to set out acceptable behaviors for members of a particular group, association, or profession.

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Code of ethics

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DEFINITION

Refers to the existence of a specialized body of knowledge or skills.

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Profession

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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.

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Tertiary Trauma Centre

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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.

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District Trauma Center

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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.

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Primary Trauma Center

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DEFINITION

The principle of doing good for the patient. Actually doing good.

Opposite of Malfeasance.

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Beneficence

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DEFINITION

Washing an object with such cleaners as soap and water.

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Cleaning

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DEFINITION

cleaning with an agent that can kill some microorganisms on the surface of an object.

Use a commercial disinfectant or bleach diluted.

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Disinfecting

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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.

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Sterilizing

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DEFINITION

Active exercise performed against stable resistance, in which muscles are exercised in a motionless manner.

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Isometric exercise

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DEFINITION

Active exercise during which muscles are worked through their range of motion.

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Isotonic exercise

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