Mid Term

Question 1

Criminal Law

Answer 1

Indicate public wrongs or crimes against the state. prohibiting actions that are harmful or destructive to society and identifies what is appropriate for the betterment of society.

Question 2

Violation of criminal law can result in

Answer 2

fines, imprisonment, probation, or restricted action.

Question 3

Civil Law

Answer 3

Private law between two recognizable parties (corporations, government, or any other public entity) usually involving a plaintiff or defendant.

Question 4

Plaintiff

Answer 4

incurred a loss.

Question 5

Defendant

Answer 5

caused a loss or wronged the plaintiff.

Question 6

Administrative Law

Answer 6

Government’s authority to enforce rules, regulations, and statutes through criminal penalties, fines, seizures, or liens.

Question 7

Emergency Medical Treatment Active Labor Act EMTLA

Answer 7

Covers any emergency medical condition and designed to prevent unequal treatment of patients in need of emergency care.

Question 8

Covered by EMTLA

Answer 8

• people must be seen by qualified personnel, be given a medical screening, stabilized, and transferred to an appropriate facility.
• must maintain transfer record for 5 years
• Pt must be seen if 250 feet of hospital

Question 9

Ambulance Diversion definition

Answer 9

ambulance sent by radio or computer program to another hospital instead of closest hospital or hospital of choice

Question 10

Ambulance Diversion result

Answer 10

• Causes strain on EMS system, being out of service longer or increasing response times.
• Leads to gross negligence

Question 11

Ambulance Diversion exception

Answer 11

When a hospital lacks resources to treat emergency patients.

Question 12

Gross negligence.

Answer 12

Is a conscious and voluntary disregard of the need to use reasonable care, which is likely to cause foreseeable grave injury or harm to persons, property, or both. It is conduct that is extreme when compared with ordinary

Question 13

Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act HIPAA

Answer 13

Covers Pt. Privacy, rights, business, and administrative requirements

Question 14

HIPAA protects

Answer 14

Patient name
Social Security number
Condition 
Address 
Age 
Past, present, future physical or mental health 
Provisions of care

Question 15

Qui tam suit

Answer 15

Lawsuit against health care providers for overbilling and fraudulent billing practices.

Question 16

Fair Labor Standard Act of 1938 FLSA

Answer 16

establishes a minimum wage and protects employees from unpaid overtime. Overtime pay must be given when working over 40 hours a week, or 53 for firefighters

Question 17

7K exemption

Answer 17

Provision stating law enforcement and firefighters can work over 40 hours and not get overtime pay.

Question 18

Ethics

Answer 18

A set of principles or standard of conduct.

Question 19

Ethical model Utilitarian

Answer 19

Greatest good for the greatest number.

Question 20

Ethical model Rights

Answer 20

Not to violate free will.

Question 21

Ethical model Fairness or Justice

Answer 21

Whether everyone is treated the same way.

Question 22

Ethical model Common good

Answer 22

Bound by common interests and values.

Question 23

Ethical model Virtue

Answer 23

Where people strive too full development of each’s individual humanity.

Question 24

Job task analysis

Answer 24

Approach to evaluating specific jobs. Evaluation based on duties, areas of responsibility, and job performance requirement. to reach its end performance goal of specific output, service or decision making.

Question 25

Functional analysis

Answer 25

Organizations missions and identification of all subfunctions/jobs/tasks that are required for the mission to be completed.

Question 26

Adverse Impact

Answer 26

substantially different rate of selection in hiring, promotion, or other employment decision which works to the disadvantage of members of a race, sex, or ethnic group

Question 27

Disparate Impact

Answer 27

an employment decision or hiring requirement that causes substantial underrepresentation to a protected class

Question 28

4/5th or 80% rule

Answer 28

a selection rate for any race, sex, or ethnic group which is less than 80% of the rate for the group with the highest rate will be regarded as evidence of adverse impact

Question 29

Progressive discipline

Answer 29

Progressive discipline is an employee disciplinary system that provides a graduated range of responses to employee performance or conduct problems. Goal is to improve employee performance by bringing gradual attention to their shortcomings. making sure they understand and show them how to improve.

Question 30

Risk Management

Answer 30

Evaluation or comparison of risks and the development, selection, and implementation of control measures that change, reduce, or eliminate the probability or consequence of harmful actions.

Question 31

Risk management control strategies

Answer 31

- Eliminate risk - Avoid risk - Acquire insurance - Pool money to help an organization recover from loss associated with risk - Transfer risk

Question 32

Emotional Intelligence

Answer 32

Am emergency science that looks at controlling emotions to recognize triggers and avoid negative responses.

Question 33

Pathogen

Answer 33

A biological agent that causes disease or illness in a person.

Question 34

Pathogens enters the body in what 5 ways?

Answer 34

- Inhalation - Contact with Blood or other body fluids - Ingestion - Fecal-oral - An intermediate carrier of or vector(tick or mosquito) `

Question 35

Communicable disease

Answer 35

Is a disease that can be readily spread one person to another. can be infectious but not communicable.

Question 36

Chain of infection

Answer 36

Sequence of events for an infection to occur.

Question 37

Exposed definition

Answer 37

When in contact with a pathogen

Question 38

Infected definition

Answer 38

When the pathogen enters the body resulting in disease.

Question 39

DIrect transmission

Answer 39

When an agent that causes disease, especially a living microorganism such as bacterium or fungus is transmitted directly from an infected person to uninfected.

Question 40

Indirect transmission

Answer 40

When an inanimate object serves as a temporary reservoir for the infectious agent. (tansmission from dry blood on stretcher)