Chapter 9 - The Team Approach to Health Care

Question 1

Community paramedicine

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Continuum of care

Answer 2

The concept of consistent patient care across the entire health care team from first patient contact to patient discharge; working together with a unified goal results in improved individual and team performance, better, patient and provider, safety, and improved patient outcome

Question 3

Crew resource management (CRM)

Answer 3

Instead of procedures for use in environments where human air can have disastrous consequences. It empowers people within a team to communicate effectively with one another with a goal of improving team situational awareness, patient and crew, safety, and overall communication

Question 4

Group

Answer 4

In the context of EMS, a collection of individual health care providers working independently to help the patient

Question 5

Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH)

Answer 5

A method of delivering health care that involves providing health care within the community rather than at a physician’s office or hospital

Question 6

Situational awareness

Answer 6

Knowledge and understanding of one’s surroundings and the ability to recognize potential risks to the safety of the patient or EMS team

Question 7

Team

Answer 7

In the context of EMS, a group of health care providers who are assigned specific roles and are working interdependently in a coordinated manner under a designated leader

Question 8

Team leader

Answer 8

The team member who provides a role assignments, coordination, oversight, centralized, decision-making, and support for the team to accomplish their goals and achieve desired results