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FLORIDA BASIC RECRUIT TRAINING PROGRAM
HIGH LIABILITY 2026 FINAL REVIEW PACK
COMPLETE QUESTION SET AND CORE
CONCEPT SUMMARY
◉ EMT. 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. ◉ Criminal Justice First Aid Provider Responsibilities. Answer: Protect our safety. Gain access to the patient.
Determine life-threatening emergencies. Maintain composure. Keep your appearance near, clean, and professional. Maintain a caring attitude. Alert EMS. Provide care based on your assessment. Assist EMS personnel. Keep you skills current. Participate in the record keeping and data collection your agency requires. Act as a liaison with other public safety personnel. ◉ Ethical Responsibilities. Answer: Make the patient's physical and emotional needs a priority. Respect their needs without regard to nationality, race, gender, or age. Maintain patient confidentiality. ◉ Duty to Act. Answer: Black's Law Dictionary states it is 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. ◉ As a law enforcement officer, you have a duty to act.... Answer: 24/7 within your jurisdictional boundaries.
- Damages - The patient suffered an injury; the injury is additional to the original injury. ◉ Battery. Answer: The unlawful physical contact when you provide emergency care without the patients consent. ◉ Consent. Answer: Agreement, approval, or permission as to some act of purpose, especially given voluntarily by a competent person. ◉ A competent adult is one who can.... Answer: Make an informed decision about medical care. Must understand your question and the implications of decisions made about medical care. ◉ A incompetent adult is one who... Answer: Under the influence of drugs or alcohol and meets requirements for (Marchmen Act or Baker Act), in an altered mental state, seriously ill, or has an injury that affects judgement, or is mentally ill or challenged. ◉ How do you obtain consent from a competent adult?. Answer: Identify yourself. State your level of training. Carefully explain to the patient what first aid you need to render. Explain your plan in terms the patient can understand. State possible risks involved. ◉ What are the three types of consent?. Answer: Expressed, Implied, Informed.
◉ Expressed Consent. Answer: Consent that is clearly and unmistakably stated. Affirmative consent, such as verbal or physical assertion of the affirmative. (State V. Swank, persons expressly invited officers into a hotel room where they found contraband.) ◉ Implied Consent. Answer: Consent inferred from one's conduct rather than from one's direct expression. Make assumptions of implied consent. You may assume the unresponsive patient is at risk of death, disability, or deterioration of condition and would agree to care if able. May also apply to conscious patients who do not stop you from providing treatment, refuse care, and then become unresponsive and are not competent to refuse care. (Ming V. Interamerican Car Rental, Inc.) ◉ Informed Consent. Answer: A person's agreement to allow something to happen made with full knowledge of the risks involved and the alternatives. ◉ In order to treat a minor you must have.... Answer: A parent or legal guardians permission.
◉ Advanced Directive. Answer: Documents the patients request to withhold specific medical care. ◉ Do Criminal Justice First Aid Providers have the authority to honor a DNR, DNRO, or Advanced Directive?. Answer: No, we must immediately begin first aid. ◉ Medical Alert. Answer: Some patients may wear a necklace, bracelet, or have a card in his or her wallet. These alert you to specific medical conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, etc. You may find a phone number on these items to call and get additional information. ◉ Organ Donor S. 765.521. Answer: A person who has written legal documentation, a signed donor card, or an organ donor designation on his or her driver's license that indicates the patient is an organ donor. Treat potential organ donors as you would treat any other patient. ◉ HIPAA. Answer: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Protects the rights of patients and the release of patient information.
◉ What should you do if you respond to a scene that is potentially a crime scene?. Answer: First concern is your personal safety, ensure scene safety before caring for patients, when the scene is safe the patient is your priority. Remember any item on scene may be evidence. Observe and document anything unusual at the scene. Touch only what you need to touch. Move only what you need to move. Do not use the telephone on scene. Move the patient if they are in imminent danger and advanced emergency care is not near by. If you suspect rape, do not let the patient wash or bathe. ◉ Confident Manner. Answer: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary says this means "characterized by assurance...full of conviction." and "Characteristic or customary mode of acting, custom..a mode or procedure or way of acting." ◉ What skills might you use to communicate in a confident manner?. Answer: Identify yourself and let the patient know you came to help. Position yourself in a non-threatening manner. Establish eye contact. Ask questions in a calm, steady voice. Tell the patient what you will do before you do it. Do not make false statements or give false assurances. Address patients by their surnames, if possible. ◉ What are some examples of nonverbal communication?. Answer: Offering a tissue or warm blanket or placing your hand on the patients shoulder comforts patients and families. Simple acts of
will understand. You an perform a complete patient assessment in this manner. ◉ What should you do if an accident or illness causes temporary deafness?. Answer: Point at your ear and shake your head to indicate deafness, or write the question down. Reassure the patient that you recognize and understand the problem. Keep the patient informed and let them know help is on the way. ◉ Elderly Patients. Answer: Sensitivity to their particular situations or conditions can relieve fears and secure their cooperation for treatment. Be alert to the individual patients ability to hear, see, and understand his or her medical needs. In your assessment look for items such as hearing aids, glasses, walkers, and wheel chairs. With age sometimes brings confusion, loss of short or long term memory, inability to follow directions and hostility. Gentle voice and clam attitude could be effective communication. Address older patients by their title and last name. May fear change or loss of independence and resist transport, feel embarrassed by their physical appearance or condition. May experience loss of bowel or bladder control, be unable to accurately hear or answer questions about their health histories, and be more seriously ill or injured. May react to hot or cold temperatures, sustain fractures because their bones are brittle, suffer from multiple conditions and take multiple medications. ◉ Chronically Ill Patients. Answer: May encounter a vast number of complex medical devices: Pacemakers, surgically inserted breathing
tubes, ventilators, catheters, etc. Do not be overwhelmed or distracted. Patients do not expect you to understand how their machines work. Do not hesitate to question the patient or caregiver as you provide first aid. ◉ Patients who speak a foreign language. Answer: Contact your public safety telecommunicator regarding access to an interpreter. Apply some techniques used to communicate with hearing-impaired patients. Hand gestures can be the best way to communicate. ◉ Developmentally Disabled. Answer: Designate a single person to communicate with the patient. Speak in short sentences and use simple words. Repeat or rephrase your statements until the patient understands. Reassure the patient. ◉ Infants and Children. Answer: Stay calm. Unfamiliar people may increase their anxiety and fear. Avoid removing the child from their parents. Involve parents or caregivers in the exam and treatment. When communicating with younger children, get down to eye-level, include children in your conversation. Adolescents and older children are sensitive to peer pressure and public embarrassment. Be aware of their modesty. Be aware of asking medical or legal questions and jurisdictional limitations regarding questioning children who are victims of crimes. ◉ Warning signs of stress. Answer: Inability to concentrate.
Breathe, take several long, deep breaths; focus on counting each breath. Thought patterns, consciously change your thought patterns. Remind yourself that you are essential; you are in control. ◉ What should you do if your patient realizes death is imminent?. Answer: Show the patient the greatest possible respect. Value and respect the patients dignity by talking to the patient as if he or she were fully alert. Assure they patient that you are doing everything possible and that he or she will receive advanced medical care as quickly as possible. Do not give false assurances. ◉ What should you do if the patient asks if he/she is dying?. Answer: "We're doing everything we can." ◉ What should you do with the family of a dying patient?. Answer: Communicate with the family. Answer their questions and explain what is happening. If possible let them speak to the dying patient. Avoid making negative statements about the patients condition. ◉ What should you do if the patient wants messages delivered to family, makes a dying declaration, or has been a victim of a crime?. Answer: Take notes as this information could be useful in court and assure the patient you will do what you can to honor the requests. ◉ What are the five stages of grief?. Answer: Denial - Refuse to accept reality.
Anger - Acting out. Bargaining - Make a deal to postpone the inevitable. Depression - Unusually silent, distant, and withdrawn. Acceptance - Unhappy but resigned to reality. ◉ CDC. Answer: The Center for Disease Control & Prevention ◉ Universal Precautions. Answer: Set of procedures deigned to prevent transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B, and other bloodborne pathogens. ◉ BSI. Answer: Body Substance Isolation, requires using a form of infection control with all patients. ◉ PPE. Answer: Personal Protective Equipment ◉ Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). Answer: Bacteria that is highly contagious and resistant to certain antibiotics. Sighs and Symptoms: Wound site that is red, swollen, or painful, or an area that is warm to the touch or is draining pus. May look like a spider bite, pimple, or boil, and the person may have a fever.
her unborn child, contact with blood, certain body fluids, and tissue from an infected individual. Signs and Symptoms: Three stages, asymptomatic, symptomatic, and AIDS. May have mild flu-like symptoms. May live many years without obvious symptoms. Becomes a lifelong carrier. Chronic condition. ◉ Tuberculosis (TB). Answer: 1/3 of the worlds population has this. Airborne disease. If a TB patient is noncompliant they may be civilly detained. If transporting a patient with TB make sure you have adequate ventilation. Signs and Symptoms: Coughing up blood, fever, constant fatigue, weigh loss, loss of appetite, and night sweats. Testing included a skin test or chest X-Ray. ◉ STDs. Answer: Sexually Transmitted Disease or Sexually Transmitted Infections. 20 Identifiable sexually transmitted diseases, seven are most common. Chlamydia, genital herpes, genital warts, gonorrhea, HIV/AIDS, syphilis, and Hepatitis B. ◉ Skeletal System. Answer: Supporting Framework for the body, giving it shape and protecting vital organs. Attains mobility from the attached muscles and manufactures red blood cells.
◉ What are the six main components of the skeletal system?. Answer: Skull, Hinged Jawbone, Spinal Column, Shoulder Girdle, Chest, Pelvis. ◉ What does the skull help do?. Answer: Protect the brain and gives shape and function to the face. ◉ What does the hinged jawbone help do?. Answer: Permits the jaw to move. ◉ What does the spinal column protect and what does it consist of?. Answer: The Spinal Cord and the primary support for the entire body. It consists of separate bones called vertebrae that stack on top of each other and are held together by muscles. ◉ What does the shoulder girdle consist of?. Answer: The Collarbone and Shoulder Blade. ◉ What does the chest consist of and what does it protect?. Answer: The breastbone (Sternum) and ribs. It protects the heart, lungs, liver, and spleen. ◉ What does the pelvis protect?. Answer: The reproductive organs and supports the organs in the lower abdominal cavity.
◉ Voluntary Muscles. Answer: Used for deliberate acts, such as chewing, bending, lifting, and running. These are attached to the skeleton and under the control of the nervous system. ◉ Involuntary Muscles. Answer: Also known as smooth muscle, carry out many automatic body functions. They are in the walls of the tube-like organs such as ducts, blood vessels, and the intestinal walls. The individual does not normally control these muscles. ◉ Cardiac Muscles. Answer: Found only in the heart, work constantly to expand and contract the heart. ◉ Nervous System. Answer: Controls voluntary and involuntary body activity. Supports higher mental functions (thoughts and emotions). Keeps the rest of the body's systems working together and be aware of and react to the environment. ◉ What are the two main systems in the nervous system?. Answer: Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System. ◉ Central Nervous System. Answer: Located in the brain and spinal cord. The body's mainframe computer.Where all communication and control originate.
◉ Peripheral Nervous System. Answer: Includes nerves that connect to eh spinal cord and branch out to every other part of the body. Serve as a two-way communication system. Some carry information from the brain and spinal cord to the body. Others carry information from the body back to the brain. ◉ Respiratory System. Answer: Delivers oxygen to and removes carbon dioxide from the blood. ◉ What parts make up the air way that bring oxygen to the lungs?. Answer: Nose, Mouth, Throat, Voice Box, and Windpipe. ◉ Trachea. Answer: The passage that connects the upper airway with the lower airway. Also known as the windpipe. ◉ Epiglottis. Answer: Leaf shaped flap at the upper end of the Trachea that keeps food and foreign objects from entering the windpipe. ◉ Diaphragm. Answer: Below the lungs at the bottom of the chest cavity, it assists in moving air in and out of the lungs. ◉ Circulatory System. Answer: Pumps blood throughout the body. Functions to deliver oxygen and nutrients to and remove waste from the body's tissues.
