68W Module 1 Study Guide 100% Correct Answers Verified Latest 2024 Version
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68W Module 1 Study Guide | 100% Correct
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EMS standards were developed by who in 1996? - DOT
The NREMT was founded in 1970 with the purpose of... - Establishing Professional Standards
The physician who delegated medical practice to EMT - Medical Director
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68W Module 1 Study Guide | 100% Correct
Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version
EMS standards were developed by who in 1996? - ✔✔DOT
The NREMT was founded in 1970 with the purpose of... - ✔✔Establishing Professional Standards
The physician who delegated medical practice to EMT - ✔✔Medical Director
The Evaluation and Improvement in an EMS system is known as.. - ✔✔Quality Improvement
System with the capability of identifying the location of the caller - ✔✔enhanced 911
Your first responsibility as an EMT at any call.. - ✔✔Personal safety
One of your responsibilities as an EMT that deals with building rapport and understanding of patient's
condition - ✔✔Patient Advocacy
When you pass information about the patient to hospital personnel, you are fulfilling the EMT
responsibility of - ✔✔Transfer of care
Continuous self-review with the purpose of identifying aspects of the system that require improvement -
✔✔quality improvement
List of steps, such as assessments na interventions written by the Medical Direction - ✔✔protocols
Oversight of the patient care aspects of an EMS system by the Medical Director - ✔✔medical direction
A policy or protocol issued by a medical director that authorizes EMTs and others to perform particular
skills in certain situations - ✔✔standing orders
, Standing orders issued by the Medical Director that allow EMTs to I've certain medications or perform
certain procedure without talking with the medical director - ✔✔off-line medical directions
Orders from the on-duty physician given directly to an EMT in the field by radio or telephone - ✔✔on-
line medical directions
The long term survival of patients - ✔✔patient outcomes
Description of medical techniques or practices that are supported by scientific evidence or their safety
and efficacy, rather than merely on supposition and tradition - ✔✔evidence-baed
The organisms that cause infection, such as viruses and bacteria - ✔✔Pathogens
Can be contracted by exposure to the patient's blood and sometimes other body fluids, especially when
they come in contact with an open wound or sore on the EMT's hands, face, or other exposed parts
including mucous membranes, such as those in the nose, mouth or eye - ✔✔blood borne pathogens
Are spreader by tiny droplets sprayed during breathing, coughing or sneezing - ✔✔air borne pathogens
a strict form of infection control that is baaed on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are
infectious - ✔✔standard precautions
Organization that sets guidelines about precautions again expose to blood borne pathogens is -
✔✔OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
Equipment that protects the EMS worker from exposure is - ✔✔PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)
The introduction of dangerous chemicals, disease or infectious materials - ✔✔contamination
Even if you were wearing gloves yo ushould - ✔✔wash your hands
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