31 Introduction

31 General Health, Wellness, and Resilience

32 Wellness and Stress Management

35 Sleep

36 Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 

38 Balancing Work, Family, and Health

38 Infectious and Communicable Diseases

38 Routes of Transmission

41 Risk Reduction and Prevention for Infectious and Communicable Diseases

51 Immunity

53 General Postexposure Management

54 Scene Safety

55 Scene Hazards

60 Scenes of Violence

61 Protective Clothing: Preventing Injury

65 Caring for Critically Ill and Injured Patients

65 Techniques for Communicating With the Critical Patient

66 Locating and Notifying Family Members

66 Injured and Critically Ill Children

66 Coping With the Death of a Child

67 Helping the Family

67 Death and Dying

68 The Grieving Process

68 What Can the EMT Do?

69 Assisting Patient and Family Members

69 Stress Management on the Job

71 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

72 Burnout

72 Compassion Fatigue

72 Responder Risk for Suicide

73 Emotional Aspects of Emergency Care

74 Stressful Situations

75 Workplace Issues

75 Cultural Diversity on the Job

76 Sexual Harassment

77 Substance Abuse

77 Injury and Illness Prevention