NYS EMT CERTIFYING EXAM TEST QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
1. Providing care within the scope of practice would be Professional Standards
considered behavior in accordance with:
1. The sovereign immunity doctrine
2. Approved protocols
3. Professional Standards
4. Institutional Standards
2. As you lift a patient into the rear of the ambulance, Advise the press that you
a reporter recognizes the patient as a State Senator. are unable to comment
Immediately the press demands to be told what has
happened to the senator. You Should:
1. Advise the press that you are unable to comment
2. Deny the patient is the Senator
3. Tell the press your diagnosis
4. Advise the press to contact the Senator's family
3. If the patient care protocols have been revised, it is the Attend in-service training
EMS providers responsibility to with the agency medical
director to become famil-
1. Attend in-service training with the agency medical iar with new protocols
director to become familiar with the new protocols
2. Continue to use the old protocols because they are
already familiar
3. Begin to use the new protocols as soon as the
agency receives them
4. Operate only when in direct communication with
the physician
4. During the Initial Assessment, you are assessing a Continue with your initial
conscious trauma patient complaining loudly of pain assessment
in the leg. You should
,NYS EMT CERTIFYING EXAM TEST QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
1. Begin to obtain the history
2. Assess the leg immediately
3. Discontinue the initial Assessment, start the De-
tailed Physical Exam
4. Continue with your initial assessment
5. The overall purpose of the initial Assessment is to Identify and correct
life-threatening problems
1. Identify and correct life-threatening problems and and set priorities
set priorities
2. Ensure that the airway is open and locate breathing
problems
3. Identify and treat major extremity injuries
4. Identify minor problems and provide treatment
6. Systolic blood pressure indicates the pressure when Ventricles are contracting
the
1. Atria are contracting
2. Atria are relaxing
3. Ventricles are contracting
4. Ventricles are relaxing
7. In what order is the Detailed Physical Exam usually Head, Neck, Chest, Ab-
conducted on an adult patient? domen, Pelvis, And Ex-
tremities
1. Head, Neck, extremities, chest, pelvis, abdomen
2. Head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, extremities
3. Head, neck, abdomen, chest, pelvis, extremities
4. Head, chest, abdomen, neck, pelvis, and extremities
8.
, A driver has crashed into a tree. In what order should Respirations, Pulse, And
you check for the signs of life-threatening problems in hemorrhage
this accident victim?
1. Pulse, respirations, Hemorrhage
2. Respirations, Hemorrhage, and pulse
3. Hemorrhage, Pulse, and Respirations
4. Respirations, Pulse, And hemorrhage
9. In assessing a pediatric trauma patient's capillary refill Greater than 2 seconds
time, an abnormal finding would be a refill time of
1. Greater than 5 seconds
2. Less than 2 seconds
3. Greater than 2 seconds
4. Greater than 4 seconds
10. If a life-threatening problem is discovered during the Correct the problem be-
initial assessment, you should fore continuing with the
initial Assessment
1. Finish the initial Assessment and then go back to
correct the problem
2. Complete both the initial Assessment and the sec-
ondary survey
3. Transport the patient to the hospital immediately
4. Correct the problem before continuing with the
initial Assessment
11. All of the following are symptoms EXCEPT Weak Pulse
1. Headache
2. Weak Pulse
, 3. Chest Pain
4. Nausea
12. Which one of the following is an example of a sign? Cyanosis
1. Cyanosis
2. Nausea
3. Dizziness
4. Chest Pain
13. The "A" in the Mnemonic "AVPU" as it relates to patient Alert
assessment stands for
Alert Verbal Painful Stimuli
1. Agitated and Unresponsive
2. Airway
3. Alert
4. Auscultate
14. After you have determined that the scene is safe, the Determine unresponsive-
first step in caring for a patient is to ness
1. Check for a carotid pulse
2. Open the airway
3. Determine unresponsiveness
4. Check for breathing
15. The main tube which carries air to the lungs is called Trachea
the
1. Trachea
2. Esophagus
3. Bronchiole
4. Alveolus
1. Providing care within the scope of practice would be Professional Standards
considered behavior in accordance with:
1. The sovereign immunity doctrine
2. Approved protocols
3. Professional Standards
4. Institutional Standards
2. As you lift a patient into the rear of the ambulance, Advise the press that you
a reporter recognizes the patient as a State Senator. are unable to comment
Immediately the press demands to be told what has
happened to the senator. You Should:
1. Advise the press that you are unable to comment
2. Deny the patient is the Senator
3. Tell the press your diagnosis
4. Advise the press to contact the Senator's family
3. If the patient care protocols have been revised, it is the Attend in-service training
EMS providers responsibility to with the agency medical
director to become famil-
1. Attend in-service training with the agency medical iar with new protocols
director to become familiar with the new protocols
2. Continue to use the old protocols because they are
already familiar
3. Begin to use the new protocols as soon as the
agency receives them
4. Operate only when in direct communication with
the physician
4. During the Initial Assessment, you are assessing a Continue with your initial
conscious trauma patient complaining loudly of pain assessment
in the leg. You should
,NYS EMT CERTIFYING EXAM TEST QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
1. Begin to obtain the history
2. Assess the leg immediately
3. Discontinue the initial Assessment, start the De-
tailed Physical Exam
4. Continue with your initial assessment
5. The overall purpose of the initial Assessment is to Identify and correct
life-threatening problems
1. Identify and correct life-threatening problems and and set priorities
set priorities
2. Ensure that the airway is open and locate breathing
problems
3. Identify and treat major extremity injuries
4. Identify minor problems and provide treatment
6. Systolic blood pressure indicates the pressure when Ventricles are contracting
the
1. Atria are contracting
2. Atria are relaxing
3. Ventricles are contracting
4. Ventricles are relaxing
7. In what order is the Detailed Physical Exam usually Head, Neck, Chest, Ab-
conducted on an adult patient? domen, Pelvis, And Ex-
tremities
1. Head, Neck, extremities, chest, pelvis, abdomen
2. Head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, extremities
3. Head, neck, abdomen, chest, pelvis, extremities
4. Head, chest, abdomen, neck, pelvis, and extremities
8.
, A driver has crashed into a tree. In what order should Respirations, Pulse, And
you check for the signs of life-threatening problems in hemorrhage
this accident victim?
1. Pulse, respirations, Hemorrhage
2. Respirations, Hemorrhage, and pulse
3. Hemorrhage, Pulse, and Respirations
4. Respirations, Pulse, And hemorrhage
9. In assessing a pediatric trauma patient's capillary refill Greater than 2 seconds
time, an abnormal finding would be a refill time of
1. Greater than 5 seconds
2. Less than 2 seconds
3. Greater than 2 seconds
4. Greater than 4 seconds
10. If a life-threatening problem is discovered during the Correct the problem be-
initial assessment, you should fore continuing with the
initial Assessment
1. Finish the initial Assessment and then go back to
correct the problem
2. Complete both the initial Assessment and the sec-
ondary survey
3. Transport the patient to the hospital immediately
4. Correct the problem before continuing with the
initial Assessment
11. All of the following are symptoms EXCEPT Weak Pulse
1. Headache
2. Weak Pulse
, 3. Chest Pain
4. Nausea
12. Which one of the following is an example of a sign? Cyanosis
1. Cyanosis
2. Nausea
3. Dizziness
4. Chest Pain
13. The "A" in the Mnemonic "AVPU" as it relates to patient Alert
assessment stands for
Alert Verbal Painful Stimuli
1. Agitated and Unresponsive
2. Airway
3. Alert
4. Auscultate
14. After you have determined that the scene is safe, the Determine unresponsive-
first step in caring for a patient is to ness
1. Check for a carotid pulse
2. Open the airway
3. Determine unresponsiveness
4. Check for breathing
15. The main tube which carries air to the lungs is called Trachea
the
1. Trachea
2. Esophagus
3. Bronchiole
4. Alveolus
