For Your Safety and That of Your Crew, You Should

question 8

Multiple Choice

For your safety and that of your crew, you should:

• A) request police assistance on all calls.
• B) search each and every patient for weapons.
• C) evaluate every scene for dangers before entering.
• D) ensure the availability of a paramedic for most medical calls.

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Definitions:

Irresistible Impulse Test

A legal test for insanity that holds people to be insane at the time they committed a crime if they were driven to do so by an uncontrollable “fit of passion.”

Durham Test

A legal test for insanity that holds people to be insane at the time they committed a crime if their act was the result of a mental disorder or defect.

American Law Institute Test

A legal test for insanity that holds people to be insane at the time of committing a crime if, because of a mental disorder, they did not know right from wrong or could not resist an uncontrollable impulse to act.

M'Naghten Rule

A standard for determining the insanity of a defendant in a criminal case, based on their ability to understand the nature of their act or distinguish right from wrong.