chapter 2

Flashcards on workforce safety and wellness, covering safety roles, patient assessment, stress management, disease transmission, PPE, and signs of death.

Workforce Safety Roles

Protect yourself, your partner, and the patient.

Patient Assessment

Recognize physical, mental, and emotional issues. Connect with patients to get them to be honest.

Personal Considerations

Take considerations for yourself. If you need help, legitimately reach out.

Eustress

Positive stress that has a beneficial response.

Distress

When you make someone's emergency your own, causing panic and worsening the situation.

Wellness

An active pursuit of a state of good health.

Resilience

The capacity to cope with and recover from distress.

Importance of Sleep

Providers up for 24 hours straight are more apt to have an accident than someone with a .2 blood alcohol content.

Stress Management

Minimize stressors, choose partners wisely, adjust work hours or environment, and change attitude.

Routes of Transmission of Diseases

Direct contact, indirect contact, airborne transmission, foodborne transmission, and vector-borne transmission.

PPE

Gloves, masks, face shields, bulletproof vests, PAPRs, helmets, gowns, eye protection, face shields, Tyvek suits, and boots.

Donning

Putting on PPE.

Doffing

Pulling off PPE

Cover

Tactical use of an impenetrable barrier for protection.

Concealment

Hiding behind objects to limit a person's ability to see you.

Immunizations

Ensure you get immunizations, especially Hep B.

Sharps Disposal

Dispose of in sharps containers, do not recap or play with needles. Let someone know if an accidental stick happens.

Biohazard Bag

Disposal of blood borne pathogens must be performed with a biohazard bag.

Hazards in EMS

Fire, vehicle accidents, violence, weather, electricity.

Stages of Grief

Denial, anger or hostility, bargaining, depression, or acceptance.

Bargaining (in grief)

Begging and pleading for something to be done, for a person to be saved.

Presumptive Signs of Death

Unresponsive to painful stimuli, lack of a carotid pulse or heartbeat, no blood pressure, no deep tendon or corneal reflexes, cyanosis, lower body temperature.

Definitive Signs of Death

Decapitation, body parts missing, decomposition, dependent libidity, rigor mortis, algor mortis, putrefaction.

Acute Stress Reactions

Occur during a stressful event.

Delayed Stress Reactions

Manifest after an event has occurred.

Tachypnea

Breathing fast.

Tachycardia

Heart rate is going fast.

Hypertension

Blood pressure spikes.

CISM

Critical incident stress management, to help providers relieve stress after mass casualty events.

Communicable Disease

Any disease that can be spread from person to person or from one species to another

Contamination

The presence of an infectious organism or foreign body on or within objects

Exposure

Whenever you have direct contact with blood, body fluids, tissues, airborne particles, etc.

Standard Precautions

Actions that prevent/protective measures