PARAMEDIC NATIONAL REGISTRY TEST PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔S&S of Tuberculosis - ✔✔- Short of breath
- night sweats
- cough
- weight loss
- hemoptysis
- chills
- fever
✔✔Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) - ✔✔-local skin abscesses
- cellulitis
- sepsis especially in elderly
✔✔How is MRSA transferred - ✔✔from one person to another through break in skin
✔✔Vancomycim resistant staphylococcus (VRSA) - ✔✔-fever chills
- localized skin lesions
- pneumonia
- sepsis
✔✔how is VRSA transferred? - ✔✔usually from catheters
- recent hospitalizations
- open wounds
✔✔Clostridium difficile ( C diff) - ✔✔- Watery diarrhea
- green and foul smelling
- nausea
- vomiting
✔✔How does C diff spread? - ✔✔Usually after hospital stay or course of antibiotics
✔✔Delusion - ✔✔false beliefs such as delusions of grandeur or paranoia
✔✔How do you restrain a patient with 2 people? - ✔✔one equal distance either side of
patient
✔✔How do you restrain patient? - ✔✔Restrain on back or side
- one arm above head, one at side and ankles together
✔✔Narcotics - ✔✔-Opium-heroin
- fentanyl
- morphine
- codeine
, ✔✔S/S of narcotic Toxicity - ✔✔-Respiratory
- central nervous system depression
- decreased respiration's
-decreased level of consciousness
- small pupils
✔✔Stimulants - ✔✔-Cocaine
- methamphetamine
✔✔S/S of stimulants - ✔✔-Dilated pupils
- increased heart rate
- increase respiratory rate
- increase B/P
- agitates/restless
- seizures
- V-Fib
✔✔tricyclic antidepressants - ✔✔-Mellaril
- Tofranil
- Evail (amitriptyine)
✔✔S/S of tricyclic antidepressants - ✔✔-Dry mouth
- blurred vision
- hyperthermia
- AMS
- seizure
- EKG changes due to blockage of Na channels
- wide QRS
- heart blocks
- torasdes
- V-tach
✔✔treatment for tricyclic antidepressant - ✔✔Sodium bicarb
✔✔S&S of salicylates (aspirin) - ✔✔-Metabolic acidosis
- Respiratory alkalosis
- hyperventilation
- tachycardia
- fever
- sweating
- tinnitus ( ring in the ears)
✔✔salicylates (aspirin) treatment - ✔✔-Large amounts of IV fluids
- May need dialysis
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔S&S of Tuberculosis - ✔✔- Short of breath
- night sweats
- cough
- weight loss
- hemoptysis
- chills
- fever
✔✔Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) - ✔✔-local skin abscesses
- cellulitis
- sepsis especially in elderly
✔✔How is MRSA transferred - ✔✔from one person to another through break in skin
✔✔Vancomycim resistant staphylococcus (VRSA) - ✔✔-fever chills
- localized skin lesions
- pneumonia
- sepsis
✔✔how is VRSA transferred? - ✔✔usually from catheters
- recent hospitalizations
- open wounds
✔✔Clostridium difficile ( C diff) - ✔✔- Watery diarrhea
- green and foul smelling
- nausea
- vomiting
✔✔How does C diff spread? - ✔✔Usually after hospital stay or course of antibiotics
✔✔Delusion - ✔✔false beliefs such as delusions of grandeur or paranoia
✔✔How do you restrain a patient with 2 people? - ✔✔one equal distance either side of
patient
✔✔How do you restrain patient? - ✔✔Restrain on back or side
- one arm above head, one at side and ankles together
✔✔Narcotics - ✔✔-Opium-heroin
- fentanyl
- morphine
- codeine
, ✔✔S/S of narcotic Toxicity - ✔✔-Respiratory
- central nervous system depression
- decreased respiration's
-decreased level of consciousness
- small pupils
✔✔Stimulants - ✔✔-Cocaine
- methamphetamine
✔✔S/S of stimulants - ✔✔-Dilated pupils
- increased heart rate
- increase respiratory rate
- increase B/P
- agitates/restless
- seizures
- V-Fib
✔✔tricyclic antidepressants - ✔✔-Mellaril
- Tofranil
- Evail (amitriptyine)
✔✔S/S of tricyclic antidepressants - ✔✔-Dry mouth
- blurred vision
- hyperthermia
- AMS
- seizure
- EKG changes due to blockage of Na channels
- wide QRS
- heart blocks
- torasdes
- V-tach
✔✔treatment for tricyclic antidepressant - ✔✔Sodium bicarb
✔✔S&S of salicylates (aspirin) - ✔✔-Metabolic acidosis
- Respiratory alkalosis
- hyperventilation
- tachycardia
- fever
- sweating
- tinnitus ( ring in the ears)
✔✔salicylates (aspirin) treatment - ✔✔-Large amounts of IV fluids
- May need dialysis
