EMT FISDAP EXAM 2 STUDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
The collective set of regulations and ethical considerations governing the EMT is called:
a. duty to act
b. scope of practice
c. advanced directives
d. good samaritan laws ✔✔B
Legislation that governs the skills and medical interventions that may be performed 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 of Transportation ✔✔B
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
Which one of the following is NOT a type of consent required for any treatment or action by an
EMT?
a. child and mentally incompetent adult
b. implied
c. applied
d. expressed ✔✔C
When you informed the adult patient of the procedures were about to perform and its associated
risks, you are asking for his or her:
a. expressed consent
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied ✔✔A
,You are treating a patient that was found unconscious at the bottom of the stairwell. Consent that
is based on the assumption that an unconscious patient would approve the EMT's life-saving
interventions is called:
a. expressed
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied ✔✔C
Your record of a patient's refusal of medical care (aid) or transport should include 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
Forcing a competent adult patient to go to the hospital agains his or her will may result in
_______ charges against the EMT.
a. abandonment
b. assault and battery
, c. implied consent
d. negligence ✔✔B
Which of the following is an action you should not take if a patient refuses care?
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 problem or they wish to be
transported.
Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive ✔✔D
There are varying degrees of DNR orders, expressed through a variety of detailed instructions
that may be part of the order such as:
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
The collective set of regulations and ethical considerations governing the EMT is called:
a. duty to act
b. scope of practice
c. advanced directives
d. good samaritan laws ✔✔B
Legislation that governs the skills and medical interventions that may be performed 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 of Transportation ✔✔B
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
Which one of the following is NOT a type of consent required for any treatment or action by an
EMT?
a. child and mentally incompetent adult
b. implied
c. applied
d. expressed ✔✔C
When you informed the adult patient of the procedures were about to perform and its associated
risks, you are asking for his or her:
a. expressed consent
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied ✔✔A
,You are treating a patient that was found unconscious at the bottom of the stairwell. Consent that
is based on the assumption that an unconscious patient would approve the EMT's life-saving
interventions is called:
a. expressed
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied ✔✔C
Your record of a patient's refusal of medical care (aid) or transport should include 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
Forcing a competent adult patient to go to the hospital agains his or her will may result in
_______ charges against the EMT.
a. abandonment
b. assault and battery
, c. implied consent
d. negligence ✔✔B
Which of the following is an action you should not take if a patient refuses care?
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 problem or they wish to be
transported.
Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive ✔✔D
There are varying degrees of DNR orders, expressed through a variety of detailed instructions
that may be part of the order such as:
