Emergency Medical Technician Program – EMT
FISDAP Readiness Exam 2 – Practice Exam
with Answer Key – Comprehensive Exam
Preparation Material
Introduction:
This document contains a complete EMT FISDAP Readiness
Exam 2 practice exam with 162 multiple-choice questions and
detailed answer keys. It covers essential EMT topics including
scene size-up, primary and secondary assessment, mechanism
of injury, airway and oxygen therapy, trauma care, medical
emergencies, pharmacology, and legal and ethical
responsibilities. The material is designed to help EMT students
assess exam readiness, strengthen clinical reasoning, and
prepare for national-level EMT testing standards.
Exam Questions and Answers:
35. When you informed the adult patient of the procedures
were about to per- form and its associated risks, you are
asking for his or her:
a. expressed consent
b. negligence
c. implied
,d. applied---Correct Answer---a. expressed consent
36. 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---Correct Answer---c. implied
37. 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---Correct Answer---c. signing of the form by the
medical director
38. 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---Correct Answer---b. assault and battery
39. 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--
-Correct Answer---b. recommend that a relative call the family
physician to report the incident
40. Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive---Correct Answer---d. advanced
directive
41. 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---Correct Answer---a. allowing CPR only if
cardiac or respiratory arrest was observed
42. In a hospital, long-term life support and comfort care
measures would consist of intravenous feeding and:
a. routine inoculations
b. the use of a respirator
c. infection control by the healthcare providers
d. hourly patient documentation---Correct Answer---b. the
use of a respirator
43. If an EMT with a duty to act fails to provide the standard
of care, and if this failure causes harm or injury to the patient,
the EMT may be accused of:
a. res ipsa loquitur
b. negligence
c. abandonment
d. assault---Correct Answer---b. negligence
FISDAP Readiness Exam 2 – Practice Exam
with Answer Key – Comprehensive Exam
Preparation Material
Introduction:
This document contains a complete EMT FISDAP Readiness
Exam 2 practice exam with 162 multiple-choice questions and
detailed answer keys. It covers essential EMT topics including
scene size-up, primary and secondary assessment, mechanism
of injury, airway and oxygen therapy, trauma care, medical
emergencies, pharmacology, and legal and ethical
responsibilities. The material is designed to help EMT students
assess exam readiness, strengthen clinical reasoning, and
prepare for national-level EMT testing standards.
Exam Questions and Answers:
35. When you informed the adult patient of the procedures
were about to per- form and its associated risks, you are
asking for his or her:
a. expressed consent
b. negligence
c. implied
,d. applied---Correct Answer---a. expressed consent
36. 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---Correct Answer---c. implied
37. 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---Correct Answer---c. signing of the form by the
medical director
38. 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---Correct Answer---b. assault and battery
39. 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--
-Correct Answer---b. recommend that a relative call the family
physician to report the incident
40. Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive---Correct Answer---d. advanced
directive
41. 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---Correct Answer---a. allowing CPR only if
cardiac or respiratory arrest was observed
42. In a hospital, long-term life support and comfort care
measures would consist of intravenous feeding and:
a. routine inoculations
b. the use of a respirator
c. infection control by the healthcare providers
d. hourly patient documentation---Correct Answer---b. the
use of a respirator
43. If an EMT with a duty to act fails to provide the standard
of care, and if this failure causes harm or injury to the patient,
the EMT may be accused of:
a. res ipsa loquitur
b. negligence
c. abandonment
d. assault---Correct Answer---b. negligence
