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What are the NOCP’s?

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They are the National Occupational Competency Profile
They were developed by PAC
Endorsed by HRDC
They follow the Agreement for Internal Trade (AIT)
It is the framework for standardizing the paramedic profession
Facilitates mobility

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What is the Good Samaritan Law

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It provides immunity to certain individuals who assist at an emergency scene

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What is medical direction?

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EMS systems must retain a medical director, paramedics work under an extension of the medical directors license

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What is Online Medical Direction?

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A qualified physician who gives direct orders in pre-hospital care, by phone or radio

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What is Offline medical direction?

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Policies, procedures and practices the medical director has set up in advance of a call

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What are the 4 T’s

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Triage, Treatment, Transport, Transfer

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What is Certification?

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It is the recognition granted to an individual who has met the qualifications to participate in a certain activity

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What is Licensure?

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It is a process used to regulate occupations, generally a governmental agency

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What are Ethics?

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The standards that govern the conduct of a group of professionals

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What is a Scope of Practice?

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Range of duties and skills that paramedics are allowed and expected to perform

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What are Reporting Requirements

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They recognize the following:
Physical abuse
Emotional/psychological abuse
Neglect
Intimate Partner violence/abuse
Violence based on 'honor'
Force Marriage
Female genital mutilation
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What is a Duty to Act?

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It is a formal contractual or informal obligation to provide care

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What are Actual Damages?

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It refers to compostable physical, psychological, or financial harm

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What is Proximate Cause?

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It is the action or inaction of the paramedic that immediately caused or worsened the damage suffered by the patient

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What is Malfeasance?

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It is the performance of a wrongful or unlawful act by a paramedic

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What is Misfeasance?

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The performance of a legal act in a harmful or injurious manner

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What is Nonfeasance?

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It is the failure to perform a required act or duty

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What is Informed Consent?

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It involves a conscious competent patient that has been informed of an assessment, treatment, options and outcomes

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What is Involuntary Consent?

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Consent for treatment granted by a court order

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What is Abandonment?

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Terminating care with a patient without any care given

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What is Homeostasis?

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The state of relative stability of the body’s internal environment

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What is the study of Anatomy?

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It is the science of the body structures and the relationship among them

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What is the study of physiology?

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It is the science of the body functions and how they work

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What are the life processes?

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  1. Responsiveness
  2. Conductivity
  3. Growth
  4. Respiration
  5. Digestion
  6. Absorption
  7. Secretion
  8. Excretion
  9. Circulation
  10. Reproduction
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What is Responsiveness?
It is the detecting internal and external and reacting to that change
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What is Conductivity
The ability for cells to transmit stimuli from one point to another
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What is Growth?
It is the increase of size whether through increase in number of cells or size of the cell itself
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What is Respiration?
The exchange of 02 and C02 between the cells and the environment and the transport of gases in and out of the blood
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What is Digestion?
The break down of complex foods into simple molecules that can be absorbed
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What is Absorption?
The movement of digested nutrients into the body through digestive tubes for transport into the cell
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What is Secretion?
The production and delivery of specialized substances for body function
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What is Excretion?
It is the removal of waste products of digestion and metabolism
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What is Circulation?
Molecules move from one space to another, blood moves through the system
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What is Reproduction?
THe formation on new cells for replacement and repair
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From smallest to largest, what are the levels of organization?
``` Chemical Organelle Cells Tissue Organ System Total Organism ```
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What is Metabolism?
The sum of all the chemical processes that occur in the body cells
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What is Catabolism?
The breakdown of complex chemical substances into simpler components
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What is Anabolism?
Building up of complex chemical substances from smaller, simpler components
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What is a Feedback System?
Helps accomplish this self regulation
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What is Negative Feedback?
It reverses a change in a controlled condition Ex: BP regulation Ex: Blood sugar regulation
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What is a Positive Feedback system?
Tends to strengthen or reinforce a change in one of the body's controlled conditions. It has a definitive end point Ex: Blood clotting Ex: Contractions, release of oxytocin, baby is born
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What is the Octet Rule?
Atoms with fewer or more than eight electrons in the outer energy level will attempt to lose, gain or share electrons with other atoms to achieve stability
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What is an Atom?
It is the smallest particle of an element that maintains the properties of the element
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What is an Isotope?
It contains the same number of protons but contains different number of neutrons
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What is a Molecule?
The result of two or more of the same atoms combine by chemical bonding
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What is a Compound?
Atoms of two or more elements joined to form chemical combinations
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What are chemical bonds?
They are the forces that hold atoms together
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What are Ionic Bonds?
It is electrons that move from one atom to another
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What is a Cation?
It is positively charged
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What is an Anion?
It is negatively charged
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What is a Covalent Bond?
Formed when 2 atoms share a pair of electrons
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What is a Hydrogen Bond?
They hold molecule to molecule
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What is the Sugar Molecule?
C6H12O6
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What is a Solution?
It is a solute that is dissolved in a solvent
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What is a Suspension?
It is when particles settle if left undisturbed
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What is a Colloidal Suspension?
Particles that are so small they do not dissolve
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What is a Tincture?
When the solute is dissolved in a solvent of alcohol
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What is an Acid?
Any substance that releases a hydrogen ion when in a solution
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What is a Base?
Electrolytes that combine with hydrogen ions
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In Protein Synthesis, with is transcription?
Strand of RNA that forms along a strand of DNA. This RNA becomes mRNA, is released out of the nucleus and carries its message to the ribosomes in the cytoplasm
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In Protein Synthesis, what is translation?
mRNA attracts small and large ribosomes subunits, tRNA picks up an amino acid floating freely in the cytoplasm, then attaches in to ribosome/RNA complex in a specific sequence
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What is a Desmosome?
It is like a spot weld | The skin cells are an example
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What is a Gap Junction?
It is formed when adjacent plasma membranes adhere to each other, it allows for impulse travel
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What is a Tight Junction?
It occurs where cells are joined by tightly fused membranes
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What is Diffusion, when talking about movement of substances
The movement of atoms, ions, or molecules from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration
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What is Dialysis, when talking about the movement of substances?
A form of diffusion where a selectively permeable membrane exists
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What is Facilitated Diffusion, when talking about the movement of substances
It is when a carrier protein brings molecules to transporter and molecule is released into the cell
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What is Osmosis?
It is the diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane
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What is an Isotonic Solution?
It has the same potential osmotic pressure, water moves but no change in the size or pressure
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What is a Hypertonic Solution?
It has a higher osmotic pressure
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What is a hypotonic solution
It has a lower osmotic pressure
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What is Filtration?
It is the pressure caused by the weight of force of the water pushing on a surface, aka hydrostatic pressure
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What does it mean to Advocate?
It is to perform in the best interest of the Pt, despite the wishes or demands of other parties involved

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