Jones & Bartlett Exam 1 (chapters 1-5)
Test Questions with Complete Verified
Answers 2025\2026 Set.
A call center, staffed by trained personnel who are responsible for managing requests for police,
fire, and ambulance services. - Answer Public safety access point
Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring. - Answer Primary prevention
A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system aimed at
improving outcomes - Answer Continuous quality improvement
A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and
agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to the sick and injured. - Answer EMS
Oversight by the medical director to ensure the appropriate medical care standards are met by
EMTs on each call - Answer Quality control
Physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly by
protocol/guidelines (offline/indirect), as authorized by the medical director of the service
program - Answer Medical control
Federal legislation passed in 1996. Its main effect in EMS is in the limiting availability of patients'
health care information and penalizing violations of patient privacy. - Answer HIPAA
The delivery of medication directly into a vein. - Answer Intravenous
A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting
certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care. - Answer Certification
An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, including endotracheal
intubation, emergency pharmacology, cardiac monitoring, and other advanced assessment and
treatment skills. - Answer Paramedic
, The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medical care in
the field. - Answer Medical Director
A method of delivering health care that involves providing health care within the community
rather than at a physician's office or hospital. - Answer Mobile integrated health care
The process whereby a competent authority, usually the state, allows people to preform a
regulated act. - Answer Licensure
The designated area in which the EMS agency is responsible for the provision of prehospital
emergency care and transportation to the hospital. - Answer Primary service area
A system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for
assistance and provides callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews. - Answer
Emergency medical dispatch
An established process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed to practice a
particular profession, or to function as an organization. - Answer Credentialing
An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous
therapy, and the administration of certain emergency medications. - Answer A-EMT
A device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and
ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient. - Answer
AED
An individual who has training in basic life support, including AED, use of a definitive airway
adjunct, and assisting patients with certain medications. - Answer EMT
Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent. - Answer
Secondary Prevention
a healthcare model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to equip them
to provide additional services in the prehospital environment, such as health evaluations,
monitoring of chronic illnesses or conditions, and patient advocacy. - Answer Community
paramedicine
Test Questions with Complete Verified
Answers 2025\2026 Set.
A call center, staffed by trained personnel who are responsible for managing requests for police,
fire, and ambulance services. - Answer Public safety access point
Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring. - Answer Primary prevention
A system of internal and external reviews and audits of all aspects of an EMS system aimed at
improving outcomes - Answer Continuous quality improvement
A multidisciplinary system that represents the combined efforts of several professionals and
agencies to provide prehospital emergency care to the sick and injured. - Answer EMS
Oversight by the medical director to ensure the appropriate medical care standards are met by
EMTs on each call - Answer Quality control
Physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly by
protocol/guidelines (offline/indirect), as authorized by the medical director of the service
program - Answer Medical control
Federal legislation passed in 1996. Its main effect in EMS is in the limiting availability of patients'
health care information and penalizing violations of patient privacy. - Answer HIPAA
The delivery of medication directly into a vein. - Answer Intravenous
A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting
certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical care. - Answer Certification
An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, including endotracheal
intubation, emergency pharmacology, cardiac monitoring, and other advanced assessment and
treatment skills. - Answer Paramedic
, The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medical care in
the field. - Answer Medical Director
A method of delivering health care that involves providing health care within the community
rather than at a physician's office or hospital. - Answer Mobile integrated health care
The process whereby a competent authority, usually the state, allows people to preform a
regulated act. - Answer Licensure
The designated area in which the EMS agency is responsible for the provision of prehospital
emergency care and transportation to the hospital. - Answer Primary service area
A system that assists dispatchers in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for
assistance and provides callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews. - Answer
Emergency medical dispatch
An established process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed to practice a
particular profession, or to function as an organization. - Answer Credentialing
An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous
therapy, and the administration of certain emergency medications. - Answer A-EMT
A device that detects treatable life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation and
ventricular tachycardia) and delivers the appropriate electrical shock to the patient. - Answer
AED
An individual who has training in basic life support, including AED, use of a definitive airway
adjunct, and assisting patients with certain medications. - Answer EMT
Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent. - Answer
Secondary Prevention
a healthcare model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to equip them
to provide additional services in the prehospital environment, such as health evaluations,
monitoring of chronic illnesses or conditions, and patient advocacy. - Answer Community
paramedicine
