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EMT FISDAP READINESS TEST EXAM 2/ FISDAP
EMT READINESS TEST EXAM 2 RECENT AND
COMPLETE VERSION ALL 230 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS/ BEST GRADED A+
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. scope of practice
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. different from state to state
When the EMT makes the physical/emotional needs of the patient a priority, this is
considered a(n)_______ of the EMT.
a. advanced directive
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b. protocol
c. ethical responsibility
d. legal responsibility
c. ethical responsibility
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. applied
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. expressed consent
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
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b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied
c. implied
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. signing of the form by the medical director
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. assault and battery
Which of the following is an action you should not take if a patient refuses care?
a. leave phone stickers with emergency numbers
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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
b. recommend that a relative call the family physician to report the incident
Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive
d. advanced directive
There are varying degrees of DNR orders, expressed through a variety of detailed
instructions that may be part of the order such as:
a. allowing CPR only if cardiac or respiratory arrest was observed
b. allowing comfort-care measures such as intravenous feeding
c. disallowing the use of long-term life-support measures
d. specify that only five minutes of artificial respiration will be attempted
a. allowing CPR only if cardiac or respiratory arrest was observed
In a hospital, long-term life support and comfort care measures would consist of
intravenous feeding and:
a. routine inoculations
EMT FISDAP READINESS TEST EXAM 2/ FISDAP
EMT READINESS TEST EXAM 2 RECENT AND
COMPLETE VERSION ALL 230 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS/ BEST GRADED A+
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. scope of practice
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. different from state to state
When the EMT makes the physical/emotional needs of the patient a priority, this is
considered a(n)_______ of the EMT.
a. advanced directive
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b. protocol
c. ethical responsibility
d. legal responsibility
c. ethical responsibility
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. applied
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. expressed consent
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
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b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied
c. implied
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. signing of the form by the medical director
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. assault and battery
Which of the following is an action you should not take if a patient refuses care?
a. leave phone stickers with emergency numbers
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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
b. recommend that a relative call the family physician to report the incident
Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive
d. advanced directive
There are varying degrees of DNR orders, expressed through a variety of detailed
instructions that may be part of the order such as:
a. allowing CPR only if cardiac or respiratory arrest was observed
b. allowing comfort-care measures such as intravenous feeding
c. disallowing the use of long-term life-support measures
d. specify that only five minutes of artificial respiration will be attempted
a. allowing CPR only if cardiac or respiratory arrest was observed
In a hospital, long-term life support and comfort care measures would consist of
intravenous feeding and:
a. routine inoculations
