Dr. Muhammad Tharwat discusses how to be a professional paramedic. Key aspects include having knowledge, skills, ethics, experience, integrity, empathy, self-motivation, appearance, confidence, communication, time management, teamwork, respect, patient advocacy, and carefully delivering services. The document outlines duties and skills expected of paramedics as well as ethical principles like putting patients first, doing no harm, treating all patients with compassion, maintaining confidentiality, and more. It emphasizes putting patients' interests above personal views and knowing when to involve medical direction.

1. Dr. Muhammad Tharwat
Emergency medicine & Traumatology M.Sc
Lecturer of Emergency Medicine

2. How can I be a professional

3. Knowledge
Skills
Ethics
Experience
Professional
Paramedic

6. Integrity
‫الـنـزاهــة‬

7. Empathy
‫التعاطف‬

8. Self-motivation
‫الذاتي‬ ‫التحفيز‬

9. Appearance & personal hygiene
‫الشخصية‬ ‫والنظافة‬ ‫المظهر‬

10. Self-confidence
‫بالنفس‬ ‫الثقة‬

11. Communication
‫التواصل‬

12. Time management
‫الـوقـت‬ ‫ادارة‬

13. Teamwork & Diplomacy
‫الدبلوماسية‬ ‫و‬ ‫الفريق‬ ‫روح‬

14. Respect
‫االحـتـرام‬

15. Patient advocacy
‫المريض‬ ‫صرة‬ُ‫ـ‬‫ن‬

16. Careful delivery of service
‫بدقة‬ ‫الخدمة‬ ‫تقديم‬

17. The range of duties and skills you’re
allowed and expected to perform when
necessary

23. Discipline relating to right and wrong,
moral duty and obligation.

24. To conserve life, alleviate suffering,
promote health, do no harm, and
encourage the quality and equal
availability of emergency medical care
.

25.  To provide services based on human need,
with compassion and respect for human
dignity, unrestricted by consideration of
nationality, race, creed, color, or status; to not
judge the merits of the patient’s request for
service, nor allow the patient’s socioeconomic
status to influence our demeanor or the care
that we provide

26.  To not use professional knowledge and skills
in any enterprise detrimental to the public well
being.
 To respect and hold in confidence all
information of a confidential nature obtained
in the course of professional service unless
required by law to divulge such information.

27. To use social media in a responsible and
professional manner that does not
discredit, dishonor, or embarrass an EMS
organization, co-workers, other health care
practitioners, patients, individuals or the
community at large.

28. To maintain professional competence,
striving always for clinical excellence in the
delivery of patient care.
To assume responsibility in upholding
standards of professional practice and
education

29.  To assume responsibility for individual
professional actions and judgment, both in
dependent and independent emergency
functions, and to know and uphold the laws
which affect the practice of EMS.
 To be aware of and participate in matters of
legislation and regulation affecting EMS.

30.  To work cooperatively with EMS associates
and other allied healthcare professionals in
the best interest of our patients.
 To refuse participation in unethical
procedures, and assume the responsibility to
expose incompetence or unethical conduct of
others to the appropriate authority in a proper
and professional manner.

31.  OK !! If you don’t, avoid the following:
 Negligence
 Abandonment
 False imprisonment
 Assault
 Battery
 Libel
 Non licensed
 Avoiding mandated reporting

32. Personal
Professional
If there’s conflict, which one would you
abide to ?

33. Provide patient benefit.
Do not harm

34. Autonomy
Confidentiality

35. OHCA
Refusal
Drugs
Crimes
Domestic violence
Triage
DNR

36. Q2: What’s the patient best interest ?
Q3: What are the patient’s rights?
Q4: Does the patient understand the issues
at hand?
What’s is the paramedic’s professional,
legal, and moral accountability

39. Impartiality test
Universalizability test
 Interpesonal justifiability test

40. What is the fundamental question for
ethical tests in health care?
A.“What can be justified?”
B.“What is in the patient’s best interest?”
C.“What is the legally acceptable
treatment?”
D.“What does the patient want?”

41. Which aspect of care should the
paramedic use when confronted with a
situation having never before faced?
A.Emotion
B.Personal knowledge base
C.Global protocols
D.Medical direction or other resources

42. What is another word for autonomy?
A.Self-determination
B.Ethics
C.Morals
D.Decision making