Hi Gang
Wow!!! It was a great teaching experience and I now have a better understanding of what needs to be given in a FR class.
I missed you all and now I have this to share with you. I am currently making the class final written test, and I found this bad question:
40. You are assessing a young woman with abdominal pain while awaiting an incoming paramedic crew. The patient is conscious, alert, and in stable condition. The dispatcher advises you that there is another call involving a patient in cardiac arrest. You should:
A) Stay with the patient and advise the dispatcher to send another first responder unit to the cardiac arrest call.
B) Explain to your patient that the cardiac arrest call clearly has a higher priority and then respond to the call.
C) have the patient sign a refusal of treatment form and then immediately respond to the cardiac arrest call
D) Ask your patient to drive herself to the closest emergency department as you proceed to the cardiac arrest call.
On the face of it I see all answers are tricky and have faults in them. B, C and D have elements of abandonment so they can't be right.
And A, well you can read much into it:
1) Is the dispatcher rerouting the ALS unit responding to your location to go to the Cardiac patient, or is the dispatcher asking you to respond? You can't respond because you are already on call, so the first premise makes more sense.
If that is the case, then you will not be able to advise Dispatch to send a 2nd FR unit to the cardiac patient, you need an ALS unit and there is one on its way already, so you need to send a 2nd FR or EMT to your location, and that makes A wrong?!
I am sure the question and answers should be re-worded, and here is where you gang come in...
Thanks in advance
Wow!!! It was a great teaching experience and I now have a better understanding of what needs to be given in a FR class.
I missed you all and now I have this to share with you. I am currently making the class final written test, and I found this bad question:
40. You are assessing a young woman with abdominal pain while awaiting an incoming paramedic crew. The patient is conscious, alert, and in stable condition. The dispatcher advises you that there is another call involving a patient in cardiac arrest. You should:
A) Stay with the patient and advise the dispatcher to send another first responder unit to the cardiac arrest call.
B) Explain to your patient that the cardiac arrest call clearly has a higher priority and then respond to the call.
C) have the patient sign a refusal of treatment form and then immediately respond to the cardiac arrest call
D) Ask your patient to drive herself to the closest emergency department as you proceed to the cardiac arrest call.
On the face of it I see all answers are tricky and have faults in them. B, C and D have elements of abandonment so they can't be right.
And A, well you can read much into it:
1) Is the dispatcher rerouting the ALS unit responding to your location to go to the Cardiac patient, or is the dispatcher asking you to respond? You can't respond because you are already on call, so the first premise makes more sense.
If that is the case, then you will not be able to advise Dispatch to send a 2nd FR unit to the cardiac patient, you need an ALS unit and there is one on its way already, so you need to send a 2nd FR or EMT to your location, and that makes A wrong?!
I am sure the question and answers should be re-worded, and here is where you gang come in...
Thanks in advance
