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WorksheetsChapter 12- Critical Thinking and Clinical Decision Making
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The practice of blindly following steps without thinking about what you are doing or whether it is working.
Evidenced based Medicine
Cookbook Medicine
Algorithm Medicine
The first cornerstone of your paramedic practice is:
gathering, evaluating, and synthesizing information.
developing and implementing a treatment plan.
using judgement and independent decision making.
ability to think and work under pressure.
Pattern of understanding based on initially obtained information; the first stage of the critical thinking process in prehospital care.
Data interpretation
Reflection in action
Reflection on action
Concept formation
The second stage of critical thinking process, you must evaluate all the information you have gathered and form a conclusion.
Data interpretation
Reflection on action
Reflection in action
Concept formation
The ____________________ is what you tentatively believe to be the problem and the focus of your treatment.
field impression
working diagnosis
differential diagnosis
general impression
Thinking WHILE doing.
Data interpretation
Reflection on action
Reflection in action
Concept formation
This occurs after the call is over and is commonly associated with run review, run critiques or debriefing.
Data interpretation
Reflection on action
Reflection in action
Concept formation
Occurs when you focus on or consider only one aspect of a situation without first taking into account all possibilities.
Working diagnosis
Tunnel vision
Differential diagnosis
Field impression
The 6 Rs of clinical decision making are: Read the scene, Read the patient, React, Reevaluate, Revise the treatment plan, and ___________________.
Retrain
Read your abilities
Review performance
Review protocols
If you arrived on scene and found that a fight is in progress and law enforcement is not yet on scene, what would you do?
Stop your vehicle and remain inside.
Get out of your vehicle and stop the fight
Stop your vehicle and yell for them to stop
Leave the scene until police arrive and secure the scene.
