UCLA - EMT: EMS OPERATIONS EXAM
Expressed consent - Answers :explicitly state, write, or gesture permission
Ethics - Answers :How a group of people are supposed to act
Morals - Answers :Individual actions
Implied consent - Answers :assume consent, patients who are intoxicated, unconscious,
suffer from head injury
Involuntary consent - Answers :Assisting patients who are mentally ill or in a
psychological crisis. preferable consent from guardian or family member
Advanced directive - Answers :document stating a person's wishes regarding health
care when not able to make it on their own
DNR - Answers :Document signed stating that if they go into cardiac arrest they would
not like to be resuscitated
Off-line - Answers :protocols/standing orders, written guidelines
online - Answers :medical director
standard of care - Answers :manner in which must act/behave
negligence - Answers :failure to act in way someone with same training would
damages - Answers :harmed or injured patient
causation - Answers :breech of duty caused harm to patient
assault - Answers :unlawfully placing a patient of fear of bodily harm - threat
battery - Answers :unlawful touching of another person - action
defamation - Answers :false information that damages a persons reputation
Someone who is wedged in between a bed at crime scene, how provide care - Answers
:extricate and provide care, don't move the bed
When side should you pass cars - Answers :on the left
Expressed consent - Answers :explicitly state, write, or gesture permission
Ethics - Answers :How a group of people are supposed to act
Morals - Answers :Individual actions
Implied consent - Answers :assume consent, patients who are intoxicated, unconscious,
suffer from head injury
Involuntary consent - Answers :Assisting patients who are mentally ill or in a
psychological crisis. preferable consent from guardian or family member
Advanced directive - Answers :document stating a person's wishes regarding health
care when not able to make it on their own
DNR - Answers :Document signed stating that if they go into cardiac arrest they would
not like to be resuscitated
Off-line - Answers :protocols/standing orders, written guidelines
online - Answers :medical director
standard of care - Answers :manner in which must act/behave
negligence - Answers :failure to act in way someone with same training would
damages - Answers :harmed or injured patient
causation - Answers :breech of duty caused harm to patient
assault - Answers :unlawfully placing a patient of fear of bodily harm - threat
battery - Answers :unlawful touching of another person - action
defamation - Answers :false information that damages a persons reputation
Someone who is wedged in between a bed at crime scene, how provide care - Answers
:extricate and provide care, don't move the bed
When side should you pass cars - Answers :on the left
