ALC Short Answer Essay Questions
What are standards and how to uphold them?
- Benchmarks for success, allow us to accomplish the mission - clearly define standards, empower subordinates to uphold them
Barriers to trust
- Identify and evaluate - inaccurate information from others -misjudging competence -absence of similarities Rebuild by identifying quickly and setting conditions
6 principles of AHS
-Flexibility -mobility -Proximity -control -continuity -conformity
3 levels of discipline and what is discipline
Behavior tempered by high standards of conduct Individual-self Organization-unit Professional-Army
Roles of Trusted Army Professionals (CCC)
Character- honorable servants of nation Competency- Army experts Commitment- stewards of profession, committed to improving organization and Soldiers
6 principles of AHS
Conformity- conform with OPORD, AHS planner involved early in planning Proximity- provide care to sick/injured in right place/time, keep mortality/morbidity low Flexibility- be prepared and empowered to shift AHS resources to meet requirements Mobility- AHS assets remain in supporting distance to maneuvering forces Continuity- moving or through progressive, phased roles of care, equal to or greater than current level of care Control- ensures AHS resources efficiently employed to support operations and strategic plans
Multi domain operations
Cooperation and operation of land, air, sea, cyber space, and space
Medical regulating
Ensures safe transport of patients, identifies patients awaiting evac, locates beds, coordinates evac and transport
Theater Evac Policy
Establishes number of days and max period of non-effectiveness that patients may be held in theater for treatment Short theater evac policy- Fewer bed requirements in theater Large demand on Air Force evac Higher requirements for replacements Long theater evac policy- Greater number of patients in theater Greater requirement for hospitals Reduces loss of manpower
Definitive treatment
Final role of comprehensive care to return patient to highest degree of mental and physical health. Not associated with specific role or location in continuum of care
10 characteristics of servant leadership
Healing Empathy Awareness Listening Persuasion Stewardship Conceptualization Commitment Foresight Building community
HSS and FHP
Health Service Support (HSS) -Medical Treatment -MEDEVAC -Hospitilization -MEDLOG Force Health Protection (FHP) -Dental services -Preventative medicine (occupational public health) -Combat and operational stress control (COSC) -vet services -MEDLAB
Mutual trust
Internal trust within Army, external with American people -honorable service, military expertise, stewardship, espirit de corps
10 characteristics of counterproductive leadership
Maladjusted Arrogant Autocratic Lack of confidence Irritable Discriminatory Incompetent Symbols of personal authority Unrealistic expectations Hierarchical
Force health protection (FHP)
Measures to promote, improve, or conserve, the mental and physical well-being of Service members. These measures enable a healthy and fit force, prevent injury and illness, and protect the force from health hazards.
NCO C3
Mutual trust and respect Effective Coaching- performance Active listening Communicating directly Powerful questioning Effective Counseling- personal Nondirective- conversation Combined Directed- event oriented Active listening Responding verbal/nonverbal Appropriate questioning Employ best practices, focus attention Effective mentoring- professional Respect Trust Partnership Realistic expectations Time
What happens at each role of care
POI- self aid, buddy aid, immediate life saving measures Role 1- immediate life saving, medic, PA, Doc, MEDEVAC Role 2- ancillary, prev med, pt hold, advanced trauma, MEDLOG, MEDEVAC, less than or = to 72 hrs Role 3- resuscitation, postoperative, hospitalization, medical regulating, clinic services, pharmacy Role 4- full spectrum, definitive medical care, SAFE HAVENS, CONUS OR OCONUS
Health services support (HSS)
Perform, provide, arranged by Army medicine to restore mental/physical well being by providing direct patient care
Definitive Care
Treatment or care which returns soldiers achieving max medical improvement
Medical evacuation
Vital linkage between roles of care to sustain patient during transport. Need deviated platform and personnel to provide enroute care
3 principles of PRT
Precision- ensures development and awareness of position in space, improves training, testing, and battlefield performance Progression- proper dose of frequency, intensity, duration, type of exercise. Overload body without causing overtraining, plateau, reversal of fitness Integration- focus on tasks and drills soldiers perform that enable them to fight and win
What is AHS
Provides highest level of care. Responsible for FHP and HSS, clears battlefield of casualties, owned by MHS
Unified Land Operations (ULO)
Simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability or defense support of civil authorities tasks to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative and consolidate gains to prevent conflict, shape the operational environment, and win our Nation's wars as part of unified action DSCA- defense support of civil authorities
6 warfighting functions (WFF)
Sustainment- HSS movement and maneuver Protection-FHP Intelligence Fires Command and control C2