Team Approach to EMS

Which of the following is a characteristic of a regular team?

• They serve a specialized role within the larger emergency health care system.

• Members consistently interact with the same partner.

• Regular teams are more common in volunteer EMS systems.

• 3. The team performs special functions across geographic boundaries.

Essential elements of a group that people must share include:

• focusing on individual goals.

• placing emphasis on one way of accomplishing a task.

• working with a set of shared values.

• promoting a personal identity.

Members of an interdependent group:

• focus on the goals of their own individual areas.

• rely on the group leader for task assignments.

• have limited ability to adapt and deliver critical care medical care in an uncontrolled field environment.

• work together with shared responsibilities, accountability, and a common goal.

When a team member speaks, you should repeat the message back to him or her. This is an example of:

• closed loop communication.

• a clear message.

• constructive intervention.

• courtesy.

A team leader:

• helps individual team members to work together.

• is often defined by policy, procedure, or statute.

• provides coordination, oversight, centralized decision making and support for the team.

• All of the above.

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

When verbal transfer of care occurs, all team members should do their best to ensure that:

• the transfer of care occurs in a place where many staff members are present to hear.

• lifesaving care is not interrupted if it is being performed by the person giving report.

• everyone is respectful of each team member’s role.

• patient care is centered around what you believe is the correct treatment.

Your partner is working a 48-hour shift and has had little sleep. He disagrees with you over how to position the patient and how you should drive to the hospital. You should:

• follow your partner’s orders and discuss the call after the patient has been dropped off at the hospital.

• confront your partner about his or her behavior in front of the patient.

• tell your partner he or she does not know that they are talking about.

• ask the patient who he or she thinks is correct.