NYS EMT CERTIFYING EXAM 2026 Newest
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Providing care within the scope of Professional Standards
practice would be considered
behavior in accordance with:
1. The sovereign immunity doctrine
2. Approved protocols
3. Professional Standards
4. Institutional Standards
As you lift a patient into the rear of Advise the press that you are unable to comment
the ambulance, a reporter
recognizes the patient as a State
Senator. 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
,If the patient care protocols have Attend in-service training with the agency
been revised, it is the EMS medical director to become familiar with new
providers responsibility to protocols
1. Attend in-service training with the
agency medical 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
During the Initial Assessment, you Continue with your initial assessment
are assessing a conscious trauma
patient complaining loudly of pain
in the leg. You should
1. Begin to obtain the history
2. Assess the leg immediately
3. Discontinue the initial
Assessment, start the Detailed
Physical Exam
4. Continue with your initial
assessment
,The overall purpose of the initial Identify and correct life-threatening problems
Assessment is to and set priorities
1. Identify and correct life-
threatening problems and 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
Systolic blood pressure indicates Ventricles are contracting
the pressure when the
1. Atria are contracting
2. Atria are relaxing
3. Ventricles are contracting
4. Ventricles are relaxing
In what order is the Detailed Head, Neck, Chest, Abdomen, Pelvis, And
Physical Exam usually conducted Extremities
on an adult patient?
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
, A driver has crashed into a tree. In Respirations, Pulse, And hemorrhage
what order should you check for
the signs of life-threatening
problems in this accident victim?
1. Pulse, respirations, Hemorrhage
2. Respirations, Hemorrhage, and
pulse
3. Hemorrhage, Pulse, and
Respirations
4. Respirations, Pulse, And
hemorrhage
In assessing a pediatric trauma Greater than 2 seconds
patient's capillary refill 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
If a life-threatening problem is Correct the problem before continuing with the
discovered during the initial initial Assessment
assessment, you should
1. Finish the initial Assessment and
then go back to correct the
problem
2. Complete both the initial
Assessment and the secondary
survey
3. Transport the patient to the
hospital immediately
4. Correct the problem before
continuing with the initial
Assessment
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Terms in this set (154)
Providing care within the scope of Professional Standards
practice would be considered
behavior in accordance with:
1. The sovereign immunity doctrine
2. Approved protocols
3. Professional Standards
4. Institutional Standards
As you lift a patient into the rear of Advise the press that you are unable to comment
the ambulance, a reporter
recognizes the patient as a State
Senator. 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
,If the patient care protocols have Attend in-service training with the agency
been revised, it is the EMS medical director to become familiar with new
providers responsibility to protocols
1. Attend in-service training with the
agency medical 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
During the Initial Assessment, you Continue with your initial assessment
are assessing a conscious trauma
patient complaining loudly of pain
in the leg. You should
1. Begin to obtain the history
2. Assess the leg immediately
3. Discontinue the initial
Assessment, start the Detailed
Physical Exam
4. Continue with your initial
assessment
,The overall purpose of the initial Identify and correct life-threatening problems
Assessment is to and set priorities
1. Identify and correct life-
threatening problems and 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
Systolic blood pressure indicates Ventricles are contracting
the pressure when the
1. Atria are contracting
2. Atria are relaxing
3. Ventricles are contracting
4. Ventricles are relaxing
In what order is the Detailed Head, Neck, Chest, Abdomen, Pelvis, And
Physical Exam usually conducted Extremities
on an adult patient?
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
, A driver has crashed into a tree. In Respirations, Pulse, And hemorrhage
what order should you check for
the signs of life-threatening
problems in this accident victim?
1. Pulse, respirations, Hemorrhage
2. Respirations, Hemorrhage, and
pulse
3. Hemorrhage, Pulse, and
Respirations
4. Respirations, Pulse, And
hemorrhage
In assessing a pediatric trauma Greater than 2 seconds
patient's capillary refill 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
If a life-threatening problem is Correct the problem before continuing with the
discovered during the initial initial Assessment
assessment, you should
1. Finish the initial Assessment and
then go back to correct the
problem
2. Complete both the initial
Assessment and the secondary
survey
3. Transport the patient to the
hospital immediately
4. Correct the problem before
continuing with the initial
Assessment
