EMT FISDAP Readiness Exam 2
1. 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
2. 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
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. ethical responsibility
4. 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
5. 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
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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 unconscious
patient would approve the EMT's life-saving interventions is called:
a. expressed
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied: c. implied
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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: b. recommend that
a relative call the family physician to report the incident 10. Another name for a
DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
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d. advanced directive: d. advanced directive
11. 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
12. 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: b. the use of a respirator
13. 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: b. negligence
14. Leaving a patient on the hallway stretcher in a busy ED and leaving without
giving report with a healthcare professional is an example of: a. liability
infraction
b. battery
c. abandonment
d. breach of duty: c. abandonment
15. The EMT should not discuss information about the patient except to relate
pertinent information to the physician at the ED. Information considered
confidential includes:
a. patient history gained through the interview
b. assessment findings
c. treatment rendered
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d. all of the above: d. all of the above
16. The EMT can release confidential patient information in all of the following
circumstances EXCEPT to:
a. inform other health care professionals who need to know information to
continue care
b. report incidents required by state law, such as rape or abuse
c. comply with the legal subpoena
d. protect the other victims of a motor vehicle collision: d. protect the other
victims of a motor vehicle collision
1. 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
2. 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
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. ethical responsibility
4. 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
5. 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
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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 unconscious
patient would approve the EMT's life-saving interventions is called:
a. expressed
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied: c. implied
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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: b. recommend that
a relative call the family physician to report the incident 10. Another name for a
DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
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d. advanced directive: d. advanced directive
11. 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
12. 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: b. the use of a respirator
13. 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: b. negligence
14. Leaving a patient on the hallway stretcher in a busy ED and leaving without
giving report with a healthcare professional is an example of: a. liability
infraction
b. battery
c. abandonment
d. breach of duty: c. abandonment
15. The EMT should not discuss information about the patient except to relate
pertinent information to the physician at the ED. Information considered
confidential includes:
a. patient history gained through the interview
b. assessment findings
c. treatment rendered
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d. all of the above: d. all of the above
16. The EMT can release confidential patient information in all of the following
circumstances EXCEPT to:
a. inform other health care professionals who need to know information to
continue care
b. report incidents required by state law, such as rape or abuse
c. comply with the legal subpoena
d. protect the other victims of a motor vehicle collision: d. protect the other
victims of a motor vehicle collision
