4H0X1 Air Force

"Trusted Care, Anywhere"

Readiness, Better Care, Better Health, Best Value

Encourage healthy behaviors through a health-based culture to enhance resilience and human performance, while reducing illness and injury.

Leadership Engagement, Culture of Safety, Continuous Process Improvement, Patient Centeredness

Develop Trusted Care leaders at all levels in the Air Force Medical Service who are trained, experienced and equipped to enable a highly reliable organization.

Put the health and safety of others first. Trust in leadership and in staff, willingness to admit error and identify unsafe conditions, respectful communication and the belief that safe care is everyone's duty.

See the operational environment as a system of care that can be studied to effect positive change, eliminate gaps and reduce waste. Every Airmen, Every Day, A Problem Solver.

Communicate clearly and maximize value to the patient, empower patients as partners in ensuring safe care, and consistently display empathy, transparency and humility in patient interactions. Ensure patient values guide all clinical decisions.

A management tools that helps leadership, supervisors, and trainers plan, develop, manage and conduct an effective and efficient career field training program

1-Helper, 3-Apprentice, 5-Journeyman, 7-Craftsman, 9-Superintendent

Respiratory Therapy Services

Spirometry, Flow volume loops, Bronchoprovocation, and Lung capacity

Electrocardiograms, stress checks, Echocardiograms, Cardiac catheterization

Phase I and Phase II of training.

12

Journeyman (5) level

A minimum rank of SSgt and 12 months of UGT

SMSgt

formal indication of an individual's ability to perform a task to required standards.

Prescribes the condition and methods required to provide a safe and healthy work place to all personnel and patients in the hospital environment.

Kinked cords, cords draped over the plumbing, and worn/frayed chords or extension cords.

Away from structures.

-297 degrees Fahrenheit and 49.7atm

50psi

Rinse eyes, hands, and mucous membranes.

Alcohol, Iodophors, Glutaraldehyde, and Betadine.

Inspect for chips, cracks, and defects.

Check for patient allergies.

Verify a physician written order for said drugs.

NEVER

Right drug, right dose, right route, right time, right patient.

Gloves, Mask/protective eyewear, and gowns/aprons

Provide consistent standards for expenses, manpower, performance, and reporting in military facilities.

Financial, personnel, and workload data from MTFs worldwide.

Unit Cost

Translation of medical reports into a short code used within the healthcare industry.

International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Current Procedure Terminology (CPT), and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS)

The major medical fields, performance measurement, and emerging medical technology.

DMHRSI

To manage human resources for the Defense Health Agency

A system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and scientific research.

"respect the humanity in persons"

Decision-making problem between two possible moral imperatives, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable.

Patient expectations, staffing, and quality of care.

Autonomy, Veracity, nonmaleficence, beneficence, confidentiality, justice, and role duty.

Patients have the right to decide their own course and it is unethical to coerce a patient.

Telling the truth.

avoiding harming the patient.

Contribute to the patients health; "do no harm"

The Hippocratic Oath.

Formalism, Consequentialism, Virtue Ethics, and Intuitionism.

Criminal and Administrative

Protects citizens or organizations from others who might seek to take unfair and unlawful advantage of them.

Civil wrong by Causing a situation that creates an opportunity for someone to be harmed, intentionally or unintentionally.

Failure to perform duties competently. Involves the act of commission or omission.

Unreasonable lack of skill; unethical conduct.

Slander is verbal defamation, Libel is written defamation.

Right and wrong described in terms of rules and principles.

Right and wrong assessed in the amount of relative good or bad it will bring about.

Ethics founded in character and justice.

"treat others fairly"