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Abandonment - correct answer ✔Failure to continue first aid until relieved by
someone with an equal or higher level of training
Act of Commission - correct answer ✔A breach of duty in which the provider
does something that a reasonably prudent person would not do under the
same or similar circumstances.
Act of Omission - correct answer ✔A breach of duty in which the provider
fails to do what a reasonably prudent person with the same or similar training
would do in the same or similar circumstances.
Battery - correct answer ✔Touching a person or providing first aid without
consent.
Breach of Duty - correct answer ✔Failure of a first aid provider to deliver the
type of care that would be given by a person having the same or similar
training.
Consent - correct answer ✔An agreement by a person in need of care to
accept treatment offered as explained by medical personnel or first aid
providers.
Duty to Act - correct answer ✔A person's responsibility to provide care.
,Expressed Consent - correct answer ✔Permission for care that a person
gives verbally or with a head nod.
First Aid - correct answer ✔Immediate care given to an injured or suddenly ill
person.
Good Samaritan Laws - correct answer ✔Laws that encourage people to
voluntarily help an injured or suddenly ill person by minimizing the liability for
errors while rendering emergency care in good faith.
Haddon Matrix. - correct answer ✔A strategy for identifying interventions that
can be applied to any type of illness or injury. Interventions proceed through
three stages: pre-event, event, and post-event.
Implied Consent - correct answer ✔The legally permissible assumption that
an unconscious person in need of emergency lifesaving treatment would
accept treatment, were he or she alert and able.
Negligence - correct answer ✔Deviation from the accepted standard of care
that results in further injury to the person
Standard of Care - correct answer ✔The level of care legally and ethically
required of a provider. To meet the standard of care when providing first aid, a
provider must (1) do what is expected of someone with first aid training and
experience working under similar conditions and (2) treat the person to the
best of his or her ability.
3 Es - correct answer ✔A strategy to produce effective prevention by
combining three types of intervention: education, enforcement, and
engineering.
,Minimizing the risk of a lawsuit includes but is not limited to which of the
following?
a) Obtaining consent
b) Not exceeding your training level
c) Staying with the victim once care has begun
d) All of these answers are correct - correct answer ✔all of these answers
are correct
Consent to give first aid must be obtained from every victim who is:
a) responsive
b) mentally competent
c) of legal age
d) all of these answers are correct - correct answer ✔all of these answers
are correct
If you force medical treatment on a mentally competent adult who has refused
treatment, you are guilty of:
a) battery
b) negligence
c) abandonment
d) breach of duty - correct answer ✔battery
Deviation from the established standard of care may:
a) be considered battery
b) result in civil prosecution
c) be excusable only if it happens rarely.
d) be acceptable from volunteer caregivers - correct answer ✔be considered
battery
, A first aider must stay with the victim until another equally or better trained
person takes over. Failure to do so would be considered:
a) negligence
b) abandonment
c) breach of duty
d) assault - correct answer ✔abandonment
Each year, one person in ______ suffers a nonfatal injury serious enough to
need medical attention or to restrict activity.
a) three
b) four
c) six
d) eight - correct answer ✔four
The number one cause of nonfatal injuries is:
a) falls
b) dog bites
c) burns
d) gunshot - correct answer ✔falls
Duty to act, breach of duty (substandard care), and injury and damages
inflicted are all factors involved in:
a) negligence
b) abandonment
c) breach of duty
d) assault - correct answer ✔negligence