After paramedic safety is ensured, what is the paramedic's next priority?
A. Patient safety
B. Determine level of consciousness
C. Traffic management
D. Spinal immobilization
Answer: B. Determine level of consciousness
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Health care workers must function within the legal scope of practice for the state in which they are employed because failure to do so may:
A) Compromise quality of care and safety. B) Be highly risky and illegal. C) Jeopardize the status of their professional license or certification. D) Lead to termination from their job. E) All of the above F) None of the above
The time control is found between the
a. incoming line and the exposure switch. b. autotransformer and the timer circuit. c. exposure switch and the step-up transformer. d. incoming line and the step-down transformer.