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Chapter 4 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Base Station | Transmitter and receiver in fixed area |
Cellular Phone | Low power radio that connects through repeater station (cells) |
Channel | Assigned frequency |
Close-ended Questions | Single short worded answers |
Communication | Transmission of info |
Cultural Imposition | Imposing beliefs/values/practices because you believe they're better |
Dedicated Line | Hotline |
Docummentation | Written record |
Duplex | Send and receive simultaneously |
Ethnocentrism | Believing personal values are more important (cultural misinterpretation |
FCC | Federal Communications Commissions (beeeeeeeeeeeep) |
Interoperable | Operates over different chanels |
Med Channel | VHF and UHF channels designated by FCC |
MDT | Mobile Data Terminal (laptop built in ambulance) |
Multiplex | Radio carries audio and data signals |
Noise | any sound that interferes with radio message |
Open-ended Question | Longer response required |
Paging | Radio signal/ voice over pager |
PCR | Patient Care Report (pre-hospital) |
Rapport | Trust Building with Pt |
Repeater | Recieves messages and retransmits them |
Scanner | Searches across sequences until message is complete |
Simplex | One-way radio |
Standing Order | Written protocol from MD |
Telementry | Electronic signals are converted in into audible signals |
Theraputic | Treatment |
Trunking | Automated complex radio system |
UHF | Ultra High Frequency |
VHF | Very High Frequency |