Nancy Caroline's Emergency Care in the Streets Ch 1,2,3,4
1. Blinding The method of not giving the specifics of a project to the
people participating in a research or study
2. Certification Person meets predetermined standard to provide safe and
ethical care
3. Descriptive A research format in which an observation of an event is
made, but without attempts to alter or change it
4. Inferential A research format that uses a hypothesis to prove one
finding from another
5. Licensure The process whereby a state allows qualified people to
perform a regulated act
6. Prospective Research
A type of research that gathers information as events
occur in real time.
7. Qualitative does not use numerical information
8. Quantitative uses mean, median, and mode. Numerical
9. Retrospective
Research
Performed from currently available information
10. Unblinded Study Subjects advised of all aspects of the study.
11. Blind Panic A fear reaction in which a person's judgment seems to
disappear entirely
12. Burnout The exhaustion of physical or emotional strength
13. Conversion Hysteria
A reaction in which a person subconsciously transforms
his or her anxiety into a bodily dysfunction; visual or physical impairment
14. Critical Incident An event that overwhelms he ability to cope with the experience, either at the scene or later