RED CROSS INSTRUCTOR FINAL EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Crew Resource Management - ✔✔is a concept that helps to promote effective and
efficient teamwork and reduce the likelihood of errors. Crew resource management
emphasizes using all available resources (including people, equipment and procedures)
to reduce the likelihood of human error and promote effective and efficient teamwork.
Crew resource management also guides team members to communicate directly and
effectively with the team leader about dangerous or time-critical decisions. When a
problem arises, team members must get the attention of the team leader, state their
concern, describe the problem as they see it and suggest a solution. The team leader
then provides direction, enabling the team to work together to resolve the issue.
✔✔Six-Person High-Performance Resuscitation Team - ✔✔A typical six-person high-
performance resuscitation team includes team members who perform the three
CPR/defibrillator roles, as well as team members who perform the three leadership and
supportive roles.
✔✔Data Manager - ✔✔One team member is responsible for communicating and
recording key data during the resuscitation effort (for example, data related to
medication administration and interruptions to chest compressions).
✔✔Airway manager and ventilator - ✔✔One team member is responsible for managing
the airway and providing ventilations. A trained respiratory therapist, if available, would
fill this role.
✔✔Compressor - ✔✔One team member is responsible for chest compressions.
✔✔AED/Defibrillator Operator - ✔✔One team member is responsible for managing the
AED or defibrillator and for establishing any other monitoring. This team member also
relieves the team member who is performing compressions.
✔✔Team Leader - ✔✔One team member is responsible for prioritizing and directing the
other team members' actions.
✔✔Medication Administrator - ✔✔One team member is responsible for establishing
vascular access and administering medications.
✔✔Assess, Recognize and Care - ✔✔a concept that describes the ongoing process of
gathering data about the patient's condition, using that data to identify a problem and
then intervening to address the problem. Because an acutely ill patient's condition can
change rapidly (for better or for worse), you must continuously assess the patient,
recognize what is happening with the patient and provide care accordingly.
, ✔✔Assess - ✔✔is the process of gathering the data that help you to determine what is
happening with the patient. To ensure that the most pressing problems are addressed
first, take a phased, systematic approach to assessment: perform a rapid assessment, a
primary assessment and (when the patient's condition allows) a secondary assessment.
In an emergency situation, assessment is ongoing.
✔✔Recognize - ✔✔After you gather assessment data, use critical thinking, your past
clinical experience and your general knowledge to correctly interpret the meaning of the
data and gain an understanding of the patient's clinical situation and care needs. This
understanding enables you to determine your next steps.
✔✔Care - ✔✔Implement appropriate care based on your understanding of the patient's
condition. Proper care cannot be provided without effective assessment and accurate
recognition of the patient's condition.
✔✔Rapid assessment - ✔✔A quick survey to ensure safety; form an initial impression
about the patient's condition; and, if the patient appears to be unresponsive, check for
responsiveness, breathing and a pulse
✔✔Primary assessment - ✔✔A focused assessment of airway, breathing, circulation,
disability and exposure (ABCDE) to identify potentially life-threatening conditions and
address them immediately
✔✔Secondary assessment - ✔✔A broader assessment to narrow the list of differential
diagnoses and discover underlying causes; includes a focused history and physical
examination and diagnostic testing
✔✔When an advanced airway has been placed in a patient who is in cardiac arrest,
compressions and ventilations are delivered continuously with no interruptions. One
provider delivers __________ every 6 seconds while the second provider performs
compressions at a rate of 100 to 120 compressions per minute. - ✔✔1 ventilation
✔✔Provide the minimal level of supplemental oxygen needed to maintain an oxygen
saturation of at least _____ - ✔✔94%.
✔✔Based on your visual survey, the patient appears to be unresponsive. What should
your immediate next action be?
Establish cardiac monitoring.
Check for responsiveness using the shout-tap-shout sequence.
Assess airway patency.
Begin CPR. - ✔✔2
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Crew Resource Management - ✔✔is a concept that helps to promote effective and
efficient teamwork and reduce the likelihood of errors. Crew resource management
emphasizes using all available resources (including people, equipment and procedures)
to reduce the likelihood of human error and promote effective and efficient teamwork.
Crew resource management also guides team members to communicate directly and
effectively with the team leader about dangerous or time-critical decisions. When a
problem arises, team members must get the attention of the team leader, state their
concern, describe the problem as they see it and suggest a solution. The team leader
then provides direction, enabling the team to work together to resolve the issue.
✔✔Six-Person High-Performance Resuscitation Team - ✔✔A typical six-person high-
performance resuscitation team includes team members who perform the three
CPR/defibrillator roles, as well as team members who perform the three leadership and
supportive roles.
✔✔Data Manager - ✔✔One team member is responsible for communicating and
recording key data during the resuscitation effort (for example, data related to
medication administration and interruptions to chest compressions).
✔✔Airway manager and ventilator - ✔✔One team member is responsible for managing
the airway and providing ventilations. A trained respiratory therapist, if available, would
fill this role.
✔✔Compressor - ✔✔One team member is responsible for chest compressions.
✔✔AED/Defibrillator Operator - ✔✔One team member is responsible for managing the
AED or defibrillator and for establishing any other monitoring. This team member also
relieves the team member who is performing compressions.
✔✔Team Leader - ✔✔One team member is responsible for prioritizing and directing the
other team members' actions.
✔✔Medication Administrator - ✔✔One team member is responsible for establishing
vascular access and administering medications.
✔✔Assess, Recognize and Care - ✔✔a concept that describes the ongoing process of
gathering data about the patient's condition, using that data to identify a problem and
then intervening to address the problem. Because an acutely ill patient's condition can
change rapidly (for better or for worse), you must continuously assess the patient,
recognize what is happening with the patient and provide care accordingly.
, ✔✔Assess - ✔✔is the process of gathering the data that help you to determine what is
happening with the patient. To ensure that the most pressing problems are addressed
first, take a phased, systematic approach to assessment: perform a rapid assessment, a
primary assessment and (when the patient's condition allows) a secondary assessment.
In an emergency situation, assessment is ongoing.
✔✔Recognize - ✔✔After you gather assessment data, use critical thinking, your past
clinical experience and your general knowledge to correctly interpret the meaning of the
data and gain an understanding of the patient's clinical situation and care needs. This
understanding enables you to determine your next steps.
✔✔Care - ✔✔Implement appropriate care based on your understanding of the patient's
condition. Proper care cannot be provided without effective assessment and accurate
recognition of the patient's condition.
✔✔Rapid assessment - ✔✔A quick survey to ensure safety; form an initial impression
about the patient's condition; and, if the patient appears to be unresponsive, check for
responsiveness, breathing and a pulse
✔✔Primary assessment - ✔✔A focused assessment of airway, breathing, circulation,
disability and exposure (ABCDE) to identify potentially life-threatening conditions and
address them immediately
✔✔Secondary assessment - ✔✔A broader assessment to narrow the list of differential
diagnoses and discover underlying causes; includes a focused history and physical
examination and diagnostic testing
✔✔When an advanced airway has been placed in a patient who is in cardiac arrest,
compressions and ventilations are delivered continuously with no interruptions. One
provider delivers __________ every 6 seconds while the second provider performs
compressions at a rate of 100 to 120 compressions per minute. - ✔✔1 ventilation
✔✔Provide the minimal level of supplemental oxygen needed to maintain an oxygen
saturation of at least _____ - ✔✔94%.
✔✔Based on your visual survey, the patient appears to be unresponsive. What should
your immediate next action be?
Establish cardiac monitoring.
Check for responsiveness using the shout-tap-shout sequence.
Assess airway patency.
Begin CPR. - ✔✔2
