BQA FINAL EXAM FINAL PAPER
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+ STUDY MATERIAL
●● Integrity
Answer: Are you trustworthy and sincere? Do you do what is right when
no one is looking? Integrity leads to respect, which is required in the
development of rapport with a patient.
●● Empathy
Answer: Understand and identify with the needs of others. Placing your
own feelings aside, you must remain supportive; provide calm,
compassionate care.
●● Self-motivation
Answer: Complete expected tasks and documentation; pursue
opportunities for continuous quality improvement and education; accept
feedback from others.
●● Professional appearance and hygiene
Answer: Present yourself in a clean, organized manner.
●● Self-confidence
,Answer: Recognize strengths and limitations; seek opportunities to
improve weaknesses. Recognize when to ask for help and have
confidence in your abilities.
●● Time management
Answer: Remain punctual; prioritize tasks and organize needs to ensure
efficiency in care.
●● Communication skills
Answer: Speak clearly, practice active listening (observe pt versus
writing), speak appropriately for the audience. Document concisely.
●● Respect
Answer: Earned by team members, employers, patients/families, the
public. Must show the same consideration for others.
●● Patient advocacy
Answer: Always act in the best interest of your patient and their needs.
Maintain confidentiality.
●● Careful delivery of service
Answer: Delivery of high quality care to all patients; ensure equipment
is ready, follow protocols and continuously seek opportunities for further
education.
,●● Primary responsibilities of a paramedic
Answer: Preparation / response / scene size-up / patient assessment /
treatment and management / disposition and transfer / documentation /
clean-up, maintenance, and review.
●● Additional responsibilities
Answer: Administration / community involvement / mentoring / support
for primary care / citizen involvement in EMS / personal and
professional development.
●● Legal complications related to consent
Answer: A patient must have the capacity to give or withhold consent.
An adult who is lucid and able to make an informed decision about
medical care is considered to have the capacity to do so.
●● Advanced directives
Answer: Advance directives come in a variety of forms. The most
common encountered in the field are living wills, durable powers of
attorney for health care, Do Not Resuscitate orders, and organ donor
cards.
●● Informed consent
Answer: Patients consent for treatment is given on the basis of full
disclosure of information.
, ●● Expressed consent
Answer: Verbal, nonverbal, or written communication by a patient that
expresses that person's agreement to receive medical care.
●● Implied consent
Answer: Presumed consent for treatment for a patient who is mentally,
physically, or emotionally unable to grant consent.
●● Involuntary consent
Answer: Court-ordered consent for medical care or treatment of a
person.
●● Compensated shock
Answer: Initial shock stage. Body is capable of meeting its critical
metabolic needs through a series of progressive compensating actions.
(Increased pulse rate, decreased pulse strength, cool and clammy skin,
progressing anxiety, restlessness, combativeness, thirst, weakness,
eventual air hunger). Compensated shock ends with a precipitous drop in
blood pressure.
●● Decompensated shock
Answer: Begins as compensatory mechanisms become unable to
compensate for continuing blood loss. The hallmark of decompensated
shock is the inability to maintain a normal blood pressure.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+ STUDY MATERIAL
●● Integrity
Answer: Are you trustworthy and sincere? Do you do what is right when
no one is looking? Integrity leads to respect, which is required in the
development of rapport with a patient.
●● Empathy
Answer: Understand and identify with the needs of others. Placing your
own feelings aside, you must remain supportive; provide calm,
compassionate care.
●● Self-motivation
Answer: Complete expected tasks and documentation; pursue
opportunities for continuous quality improvement and education; accept
feedback from others.
●● Professional appearance and hygiene
Answer: Present yourself in a clean, organized manner.
●● Self-confidence
,Answer: Recognize strengths and limitations; seek opportunities to
improve weaknesses. Recognize when to ask for help and have
confidence in your abilities.
●● Time management
Answer: Remain punctual; prioritize tasks and organize needs to ensure
efficiency in care.
●● Communication skills
Answer: Speak clearly, practice active listening (observe pt versus
writing), speak appropriately for the audience. Document concisely.
●● Respect
Answer: Earned by team members, employers, patients/families, the
public. Must show the same consideration for others.
●● Patient advocacy
Answer: Always act in the best interest of your patient and their needs.
Maintain confidentiality.
●● Careful delivery of service
Answer: Delivery of high quality care to all patients; ensure equipment
is ready, follow protocols and continuously seek opportunities for further
education.
,●● Primary responsibilities of a paramedic
Answer: Preparation / response / scene size-up / patient assessment /
treatment and management / disposition and transfer / documentation /
clean-up, maintenance, and review.
●● Additional responsibilities
Answer: Administration / community involvement / mentoring / support
for primary care / citizen involvement in EMS / personal and
professional development.
●● Legal complications related to consent
Answer: A patient must have the capacity to give or withhold consent.
An adult who is lucid and able to make an informed decision about
medical care is considered to have the capacity to do so.
●● Advanced directives
Answer: Advance directives come in a variety of forms. The most
common encountered in the field are living wills, durable powers of
attorney for health care, Do Not Resuscitate orders, and organ donor
cards.
●● Informed consent
Answer: Patients consent for treatment is given on the basis of full
disclosure of information.
, ●● Expressed consent
Answer: Verbal, nonverbal, or written communication by a patient that
expresses that person's agreement to receive medical care.
●● Implied consent
Answer: Presumed consent for treatment for a patient who is mentally,
physically, or emotionally unable to grant consent.
●● Involuntary consent
Answer: Court-ordered consent for medical care or treatment of a
person.
●● Compensated shock
Answer: Initial shock stage. Body is capable of meeting its critical
metabolic needs through a series of progressive compensating actions.
(Increased pulse rate, decreased pulse strength, cool and clammy skin,
progressing anxiety, restlessness, combativeness, thirst, weakness,
eventual air hunger). Compensated shock ends with a precipitous drop in
blood pressure.
●● Decompensated shock
Answer: Begins as compensatory mechanisms become unable to
compensate for continuing blood loss. The hallmark of decompensated
shock is the inability to maintain a normal blood pressure.
