Well-being of The Paramedic

Question 1

Physical well being

Answer 1

Nutrition
Weight control
Exercise
Smoking
Circadian rhythms
Periodic health risk assessment
Body mechanics

Question 2

Mental well being

Answer 2

Stress reactions

De stressing technique

Question 3

Emotional well-being

Answer 3

A healthy balance between work life and personal life.

Question 4

Spiritual well-being

Answer 4

Higher power beliefs.

Question 5

Eustress

Answer 5

Positive stress. Motivating, driving, assists in focus.

Question 6

Distress

Answer 6

Negative type of stress. Overwhelming and debilitating.

Question 7

Coping with stress

Answer 7

Controlled breathing
Reframing
Progressive relaxation

Question 8

How people react to stressful situations

Answer 8

Fear
Anxiety
Depression
Anger
Confusion

Question 9

Psychological defence mechanisms

Answer 9

Denial (ignorance)
Regression (return to earlier age behaviour)
Projection (attributing feelings, motives, desires to others)
Displacement (redirection of an emotion from the original cause of the emotion to a more immediate substitute)

Question 10

Responses in multiple-casualty incidents

Answer 10

Anxiety
Blind panic 
Depression
Overreaction
Conversion hysteria

Question 11

Stages of the grieving process

Answer 11

Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression 
Acceptance

Question 12

Target heart rate calculation

Answer 12

220 - age (in years) = maximum heart rate
Resting heart rate - maximum heart rate x 0.7 + resting heart rate = target heart rate.

Example: 220 - 40 = 180
180 - 70 = 110 x 0.7 = 77 + 70 = 147 bpm