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Duty J: Introduction to Emergency Care
Competency #1: Define the components of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems and describe the roles and responsibiities of the EMT-Basic including how they relate to medical oversight and the specific statutes and regulations of the EMS system in Pennsylvania.
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Competency #2: List and discuss the possible reactions of family members and the EMT-Basic to the emotional aspects of emergency care and the steps needed to relieve the consequences of these.
High School, Level 2 |

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Duty J: Introduction to Emergency Care
Competency #3: Discuss all aspects of scene safety, including the personal protective equipment necessary for various situations.
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Competency #4: Demonstrate the proper use, removal and discarding of personal protective equipment, complete disinfection/cleaning and completion of reporting documentation.
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Competency #5: Define the EMT-Basic's scope of practice and ethical responsibilities and discuss the implications of advance directives, consent, refusals, abandonment, negligence, duty to act, confidentiality and speicall situations such as organ donors and crime scenes.
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Competency #6: Describe the anatomy and function of the major systems of the human body.
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