EMS 210 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
What law prohibits employers from failing to provide full and equal employment
opportunity to the disabled?
American Disability Act
What provides the minimum skills each level of EMS provider should be able to
accomplish?
EMS scope of practice model
What is the main area in which an EMS agency operates in called?
Primary Service Area
Who authorizes the EMT's to provide medical care in the field?
Medical Director
Online Medical Control
Medical direction given in real time to an EMS service or provider.
Offline Medical Control
consists of standing orders, training, and supervision authorized by the medical director
mobile integrated healthcare (MIH)
A method of delivering health care which involves providing health care within the
community rather than at a physician's office or hospital. Includes Health evaluations,
monitoring illnesses, obtaining lab samples, give vaccines, serving as patient advocate
What protects a patient's privacy?
,HIPAA
Routes of Transmission
Direct contact, Airborne, Food/waterborne, vector-borne
The spread of infection through animals or insects is known as?
vector borne transmission
What agency publishes guidelines concerning the reduction of hazards in the
workplace?
OSHA
What type of respirator would you use when you suspect your patient has TB?
Particulate air respirator (N95)
5 stages of grieving process
denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
3 stages of general adaptation syndrome
alarm, reaction resistance, exhaustion/recovery
CISM takes place
24-72 hours after the major incident
Cover
impenetrable barrier for protection
Concealment
The use of objects to limit a person's visibility of you.
Implied Consent
Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given treatment
under the legal assumption that he or she would want treatment.
, Expressed Consent
consent given by adults who are of legal age and mentally competent to make a rational
decision in regard to their medical well-being
Informed Consent
Patient gives consent for a procedure to be performed in full knowledge of the
procedure and the risk it entails
3 things that can make a minor emancipated
pregnant, kids, military
Who is allowed to refuse treatment?
Competent individuals over legal age
a written document that specifies medical treatment for a competent adult who
becomes comatosed?
Advance Directive
4 definitive signs of death
non-survivable injury, rigor mortis, dependent lividity, putrefication
Scope of practice
outlines the care you are able to provide for the patient
Standard of care
Written, accepted levels of emergency care expected by reason of training and
profession; written by legal or professional organizations so that patients are not
exposed to unreasonable risk or harm.
4 things that need to be in place to cause negligence
duty to act, breach of duty, damages, causation
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
What law prohibits employers from failing to provide full and equal employment
opportunity to the disabled?
American Disability Act
What provides the minimum skills each level of EMS provider should be able to
accomplish?
EMS scope of practice model
What is the main area in which an EMS agency operates in called?
Primary Service Area
Who authorizes the EMT's to provide medical care in the field?
Medical Director
Online Medical Control
Medical direction given in real time to an EMS service or provider.
Offline Medical Control
consists of standing orders, training, and supervision authorized by the medical director
mobile integrated healthcare (MIH)
A method of delivering health care which involves providing health care within the
community rather than at a physician's office or hospital. Includes Health evaluations,
monitoring illnesses, obtaining lab samples, give vaccines, serving as patient advocate
What protects a patient's privacy?
,HIPAA
Routes of Transmission
Direct contact, Airborne, Food/waterborne, vector-borne
The spread of infection through animals or insects is known as?
vector borne transmission
What agency publishes guidelines concerning the reduction of hazards in the
workplace?
OSHA
What type of respirator would you use when you suspect your patient has TB?
Particulate air respirator (N95)
5 stages of grieving process
denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
3 stages of general adaptation syndrome
alarm, reaction resistance, exhaustion/recovery
CISM takes place
24-72 hours after the major incident
Cover
impenetrable barrier for protection
Concealment
The use of objects to limit a person's visibility of you.
Implied Consent
Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given treatment
under the legal assumption that he or she would want treatment.
, Expressed Consent
consent given by adults who are of legal age and mentally competent to make a rational
decision in regard to their medical well-being
Informed Consent
Patient gives consent for a procedure to be performed in full knowledge of the
procedure and the risk it entails
3 things that can make a minor emancipated
pregnant, kids, military
Who is allowed to refuse treatment?
Competent individuals over legal age
a written document that specifies medical treatment for a competent adult who
becomes comatosed?
Advance Directive
4 definitive signs of death
non-survivable injury, rigor mortis, dependent lividity, putrefication
Scope of practice
outlines the care you are able to provide for the patient
Standard of care
Written, accepted levels of emergency care expected by reason of training and
profession; written by legal or professional organizations so that patients are not
exposed to unreasonable risk or harm.
4 things that need to be in place to cause negligence
duty to act, breach of duty, damages, causation
