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9 Cards in this Set
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Levels of EMS |
Emergency medical responder emergency medical technician advanced emergency medical technician paramedic |
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Roles and responsibilities of emt |
Personal safety, safety of the crew patient and bystander,patient assessment, patient care,lifting and moving, transport,transfer of care, patient advocacy,able to listen, non-judgmental and fair |
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Personal traits |
Pleasant, sincere,cooperative, resourceful, self starter,emotionally stable, able to lead, neat and clean, of good moralcharacter, respectful of others, control of personal habits, controlled in conversation and able to communicate properly |
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Quality improvement |
A process of continuous self review with the purpose of identifying and correcting aspect of the system that requires improvement |
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Medical director |
A physician who assumes ultimate responsibility for the patient care aspect of the EMS system |
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Medical direction |
Oversight of the patient care aspect of an EMS system by the medical director |
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Off line medical direction |
Consist of standing orders issued by the medical director that allows ENT to give some medication or perform certain procedures without speaking to the medical director or another position |
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Online medical direction |
Consist of orders from the on duty physician giving directly to win EMT and the field by ready or telephone |
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Protocols |
List of steps such as assessment and intervention to be taken in different situations protocols are develop by the medical director of an ems system |
