FLORIDA BASIC RECRUIT
TRAINING PROGRAM HIGH
LIABILITY CHAPTER 2 FIRST AID
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
Your Exam Plug
,EMS system - Answer: a network of trained professionals linked to provide advanced, out-of-hospital
care for victims of sudden traumatic injury or illness.
EMTs - Answer: emergency medical technicians
Criminal Justice First Aid Provider Levels of Training - Answer: airway care, patient assessment,
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), bleeding control, stabilization of injuries to the spine and
extremities or limbs, care for medical and trauma emergencies, use of limited amount of equipment,
assistance to other EMS providers, cannot administer medications.
ABCs - Answer: Airway, Breathing, and Circulation
duty to act - Answer: a duty to take some action to prevent harm to another and for the failure of which
one may be liable depending on the relationship of the parties and the circumstances. (Black's Law
Dictionary)
Breach of Duty - Answer: occurs when you either fail to act or act inappropriately
standard or scope of care - Answer: the degree of care that a reasonable person should exercise. (Black's
Law Dictionary)
standard or scope of care - Answer: is care that you are expected to provide to the same patient under
the same conditions as would any criminal justice first aid provider who received the same level of
training.
Good Samaritan Act - Answer: Enacted in 1959 in California
Good Samaritan Act - Answer: protects a civilian first aid provider from liability for medical care
performed in good faith or medical care similar to that expected of another first aid provider with equal
training.
AED - Answer: automated external defibrillator
, Abandonment - Answer: the relinquishing of a right or interest with the intention of never claiming it.
(Garner, 2004)
negligence - Answer: The failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonably prudent person
would have exercised in a similar situation; any conduct that falls below the legal standard established
to protect other against unreasonable risk of harm, except for conduct that is intentionally, wantonly, or
willfully disregardful of other's rights. (Garner, 2004)
Negligence occurs if all these conditions are present: - Answer: •Duty to act- you were suppose to be
there.
•Breach of standard care- what you did was wrong.
•Causation- what you did caused the injury.
•Damages- the patient suffered an injury; the injury is additional to the original injury.
Battery - Answer: The use of force against another resulting in harmful or offensive contact; an
intentional and offensive touching of another without lawful justification--also termed tortuous battery.
(Garner, 2004)
Battery - Answer: unlawful physical contact. When you provide emergency care without the patient's
consent, you can face a battery charge if you touch a patient's body or clothes.
Consent - Answer: Agreement, approval, or permission as to some act of purpose, especially given
voluntarily by a competent person. (Garner, 2004)
Expressed consent - Answer: Consent that is clearly and unmistakably stated. (Garner, 2004)
implied consent - Answer: Consent inferred from one's conduct rather than from one's direct
expression. (Garner, 2004)
informed consent - Answer: A person's agreement to allow something to happen made with full
knowledge of the risks involved and the alternatives. (Garner, 2004)
DNR - Answer: Do Not Resuscitate
TRAINING PROGRAM HIGH
LIABILITY CHAPTER 2 FIRST AID
QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
Your Exam Plug
,EMS system - Answer: a network of trained professionals linked to provide advanced, out-of-hospital
care for victims of sudden traumatic injury or illness.
EMTs - Answer: emergency medical technicians
Criminal Justice First Aid Provider Levels of Training - Answer: airway care, patient assessment,
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), bleeding control, stabilization of injuries to the spine and
extremities or limbs, care for medical and trauma emergencies, use of limited amount of equipment,
assistance to other EMS providers, cannot administer medications.
ABCs - Answer: Airway, Breathing, and Circulation
duty to act - Answer: a duty to take some action to prevent harm to another and for the failure of which
one may be liable depending on the relationship of the parties and the circumstances. (Black's Law
Dictionary)
Breach of Duty - Answer: occurs when you either fail to act or act inappropriately
standard or scope of care - Answer: the degree of care that a reasonable person should exercise. (Black's
Law Dictionary)
standard or scope of care - Answer: is care that you are expected to provide to the same patient under
the same conditions as would any criminal justice first aid provider who received the same level of
training.
Good Samaritan Act - Answer: Enacted in 1959 in California
Good Samaritan Act - Answer: protects a civilian first aid provider from liability for medical care
performed in good faith or medical care similar to that expected of another first aid provider with equal
training.
AED - Answer: automated external defibrillator
, Abandonment - Answer: the relinquishing of a right or interest with the intention of never claiming it.
(Garner, 2004)
negligence - Answer: The failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonably prudent person
would have exercised in a similar situation; any conduct that falls below the legal standard established
to protect other against unreasonable risk of harm, except for conduct that is intentionally, wantonly, or
willfully disregardful of other's rights. (Garner, 2004)
Negligence occurs if all these conditions are present: - Answer: •Duty to act- you were suppose to be
there.
•Breach of standard care- what you did was wrong.
•Causation- what you did caused the injury.
•Damages- the patient suffered an injury; the injury is additional to the original injury.
Battery - Answer: The use of force against another resulting in harmful or offensive contact; an
intentional and offensive touching of another without lawful justification--also termed tortuous battery.
(Garner, 2004)
Battery - Answer: unlawful physical contact. When you provide emergency care without the patient's
consent, you can face a battery charge if you touch a patient's body or clothes.
Consent - Answer: Agreement, approval, or permission as to some act of purpose, especially given
voluntarily by a competent person. (Garner, 2004)
Expressed consent - Answer: Consent that is clearly and unmistakably stated. (Garner, 2004)
implied consent - Answer: Consent inferred from one's conduct rather than from one's direct
expression. (Garner, 2004)
informed consent - Answer: A person's agreement to allow something to happen made with full
knowledge of the risks involved and the alternatives. (Garner, 2004)
DNR - Answer: Do Not Resuscitate
