EMT FISDAP READINESS EXAM 2
1. The collective set of regulations and ethical considerations governing theEMT is called:
a. duty to act
b. scope of practice
c. advanced directives
d. good samaritan laws: B
2. Legislation that governs the skills and medical interventions that may beperformed by the EMT is:
a. standardized (uniform) throughout the country
b. different from state to state
c. standardized for regions within a state
d. governed by the US Department ofTransportation: B
3. When the EMT makes the physical/emotional needs of the patient a priority,this is considered a(n) of the
EMT.
a. advanced directive
b. protocol
c. ethical responsibility
d. legal responsibility: C
4. Which one of the following is NOT a type of consent required for anytreatment or action by an
EMT?
a. child and mentally incompetent adult
b. implied
c. applied
,d. expressed: C
5. When you informed the adult patient of the procedures were about toperform and its associated risks,
you are asking for his or her:
a. expressed consent
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied: A
6. You are treating a patient that was found unconscious at the bottom of the stairwell. Consent that is based on
the assumption that an unconsciouspatient would approve the EMT's life- saving interventions is called:
a. expressed
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied: C
7. Your record of a patient's refusal of medical care (aid) or transport shouldinclude all of the following
EXCEPT:
,a. informing the patient of the risks and consequences of refusal
b. documenting the steps you took
c. signing of the form by the medical director
d. obtaining a release form with the patient's witnessed signature: C
8. Forcing a competent adult patient to go to the hospital agains his or her willmay result in
charges against the EMT.
a. abandonment
b. assault and battery
c. implied consent
d. negligence: B
9. Which of the following is an action you should not take if a patient refusescare?
a. leave phone stickers with emergency numbers
b. recommend that a relative call the family physician to report the incident
c. tell the patient to call his or her family physician if the problem reoccurs
d. call a relative or neighbor who can stay with the patient: C. In all cases of refusal you should advise patients
to call EMS back at any time if there is a problemor they wish to be transported.
10. Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive: D
11. There are varying degrees of DNR orders, expressed through a variety ofdetailed instructions
that may be part of the order such as:
, a. allowing CPR only if cardiac or respiratory arrest was observed
1. The collective set of regulations and ethical considerations governing theEMT is called:
a. duty to act
b. scope of practice
c. advanced directives
d. good samaritan laws: B
2. Legislation that governs the skills and medical interventions that may beperformed by the EMT is:
a. standardized (uniform) throughout the country
b. different from state to state
c. standardized for regions within a state
d. governed by the US Department ofTransportation: B
3. When the EMT makes the physical/emotional needs of the patient a priority,this is considered a(n) of the
EMT.
a. advanced directive
b. protocol
c. ethical responsibility
d. legal responsibility: C
4. Which one of the following is NOT a type of consent required for anytreatment or action by an
EMT?
a. child and mentally incompetent adult
b. implied
c. applied
,d. expressed: C
5. When you informed the adult patient of the procedures were about toperform and its associated risks,
you are asking for his or her:
a. expressed consent
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied: A
6. You are treating a patient that was found unconscious at the bottom of the stairwell. Consent that is based on
the assumption that an unconsciouspatient would approve the EMT's life- saving interventions is called:
a. expressed
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied: C
7. Your record of a patient's refusal of medical care (aid) or transport shouldinclude all of the following
EXCEPT:
,a. informing the patient of the risks and consequences of refusal
b. documenting the steps you took
c. signing of the form by the medical director
d. obtaining a release form with the patient's witnessed signature: C
8. Forcing a competent adult patient to go to the hospital agains his or her willmay result in
charges against the EMT.
a. abandonment
b. assault and battery
c. implied consent
d. negligence: B
9. Which of the following is an action you should not take if a patient refusescare?
a. leave phone stickers with emergency numbers
b. recommend that a relative call the family physician to report the incident
c. tell the patient to call his or her family physician if the problem reoccurs
d. call a relative or neighbor who can stay with the patient: C. In all cases of refusal you should advise patients
to call EMS back at any time if there is a problemor they wish to be transported.
10. Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive: D
11. There are varying degrees of DNR orders, expressed through a variety ofdetailed instructions
that may be part of the order such as:
, a. allowing CPR only if cardiac or respiratory arrest was observed
