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State laws enacted to protect HCPs and other emergency personnel from being sued because of providing help to a victim during an emergency situation are Good Samaritan laws.

Patients who have difficulty communicating are at lesser risk of medical errors and poor outcomes.

Blunt trauma occurs when a foreign object penetrates the body, tearing a hole in one or more blood vessels.

A health care provider contracts an infectious agent after using a pen that a patient used to sign consent forms. What mode of transmission has occurred in this scenario?

Closed-ended questions often provide limited information to the health care provider.

According to the Glasgow coma scale, which of the following would be considered a minor brain injury? 

Infant safe sleeping involves:

What type of respiratory sounds occur when air moves freely though the large passageways of the lungs and are heard over the anterior chest in the trachea and bronchi?

Hypotensive crisis is an emergency with severe elevation in BP (>180/120 mm Hg) associated with evidence of new or worsening target organ damage.

Using masks and other PPEs according to standard precautions when performing splash generating procedures (e.g., wound irrigation, suctioning, intubation) is an example of what?