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EMR Top Exam Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, Verified, rated A+ member of EMS system trained in first aid care who help EMTs at emergency scene. - ✔✔-Emergency Medical Responder (EMR): ... *Identifies duties and skills EMS provider is legally allowed to perform *Defined by state and/or regional statutes and regulations *Defines related licensing, credentialing, and certification - ✔✔-Scope of Practice EMRs are trained to: - ✔✔-*Reach patients *Find out what is wrong *Provide emergency care *Move patients without causing further injury Four Levels of EMS Training: - ✔✔-*Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) *Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) *Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) *Paramedic legal term that one is morally or legally obligated to provide care. - ✔✔-Duty: minimize exposure to liability; encourage bystanders to provide emergency care. - ✔✔-"Good Samaritan laws" *What is legally permitted to be done by individuals trained or licensed at a particular level *Does not define what must be done for patient or in a particular situation *Based on EMS education standards - ✔✔-Scope of Practice *Varies county to county, state to state, region to region *Based on what is expected of someone with training and experience working under similar conditions *Expected to follow approved standing orders/protocols for your EMS system - ✔✔-Standard of Care study of principles that define behavior as right, good, and proper. - ✔✔-Ethics: *Integrity *Compassion *Accountability *Respect *Empathy - ✔✔-EMS values *Married *Pregnant *Parent *Member of armed forces *Financially independent; living away from home - ✔✔-Emancipated Minor Document that allows a patient to define in advance what his/her wishes are should he/she become incapacitated due to medical illness or severe injury. - ✔✔-Advanced Directives *Designation of agent to make decisions on your behalf *Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order *Choice to prolong or not prolong life *Pain relief options *Donation of organs - ✔✔-Advanced Directives *Written legal document, signed by patient and physician. *States patient has terminal illness and does not wish to prolong life through resuscitative efforts. *Does not mean "do not care." - ✔✔-Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Orders Four elements to determine if negligent: - ✔✔-*Duty to act *Breach of duty *Damages *Causation BSI - ✔✔-Body Substance Isolation Anterior - ✔✔-Front of body or body part. Posterior - ✔✔-Back of body or body part. Midline - ✔✔-Imaginary vertical line used to divide body into right and left halves. Medial - ✔✔-Toward midline of body. Lateral - ✔✔-To side, away from midline of body. Superior - ✔✔-Toward top of head. Inferior - ✔✔-Toward feet. Proximal - ✔✔-Closer to torso. Distal - ✔✔-Farther away from torso. Supine - ✔✔-Lying face up. Prone - ✔✔-Lying face down. Recovery position (lateral recumbent) - ✔✔-Lying on one's side. Semi-Fowler's position - ✔✔-Patient sitting up at an angle. Trendelenburg position - ✔✔-Patient supine at an angle with feet elevated. Four major body cavities - ✔✔-cavities—cranial, thoracic, abdominal, pelvic. liver, gallbladder, part of small and large intestine. - ✔✔-Right upper q [Show More]

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