AAOS EMT EXAMS SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Duty to act - ✔✔responsibility to provide patient care
✔✔Emancipated minor - ✔✔Married, in armed services, or parents
✔✔Emergency doctrine - ✔✔principle of implied consent
✔✔Expressed consent - ✔✔Patient acknowledges he or she wants you to provide care
or transport
✔✔False imprisionment - ✔✔unauthorized confinement of a person
✔✔Good Samaritan Law - ✔✔legal protection to people who give reasonable
assistance to those in need
✔✔Gross negligence - ✔✔Lack of diligence or care.
✔✔Implied consent - ✔✔Applies to unconscious or incapable patients
✔✔Informed consent - ✔✔Treatment, risks and benefits have been explained.
✔✔Kidnapping - ✔✔Seizing, confining, abducting, or carrying away by force
✔✔Libel - ✔✔a published false statement
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔Failure to provide same care that person with similar training would
provide in same or similar situation
✔✔PHI - ✔✔Protected Health Information
, ✔✔Rigor mortis - ✔✔stiffening
✔✔Slander - ✔✔making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation
✔✔The determination that prompt surgical care in the hospital is more important than
performing time-consuming procedures in the field on a major trauma patient is based
MOSTLY on: - ✔✔EMS Research
✔✔The ability to take appropriate action with little direction is known as ______ -
✔✔self-motivation
✔✔Which of the following interventions is used by all levels of EMS providers? -
✔✔Automated External Defibrillator
✔✔Prehospital patient care decision should be based on _____ - ✔✔EMS Research
✔✔Online medical control requires______ - ✔✔Phone or radio contact with the medical
director
✔✔The EMT is legally obligated to protect a patient's privacy according to _______ -
✔✔HIPAA
✔✔Which of the following is a specific example of the Mobile Integrated Healthcare
(MIH) model? - ✔✔The paramedic administers a patient's flu vaccination
✔✔As an EMT, you may be authorized to administer aspirin to a patient with chest pain
based on: - ✔✔Medical director approval
✔✔The ability to handle multiple tasks based on their priority is called_______ - ✔✔time
management
✔✔National guidelines for EMS care are intended to _______ - ✔✔Provide more
consistent delivery of EMS care across the United States
✔✔Which of the following statements regarding the NREMT is correct? - ✔✔The
NREMT provides a national standard for EMS testing
✔✔American Heart Association protocols are based on ____ - ✔✔Evidence-based
research
✔✔The ability to understand others and have them understand you is known as
_______ - ✔✔Communication
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Duty to act - ✔✔responsibility to provide patient care
✔✔Emancipated minor - ✔✔Married, in armed services, or parents
✔✔Emergency doctrine - ✔✔principle of implied consent
✔✔Expressed consent - ✔✔Patient acknowledges he or she wants you to provide care
or transport
✔✔False imprisionment - ✔✔unauthorized confinement of a person
✔✔Good Samaritan Law - ✔✔legal protection to people who give reasonable
assistance to those in need
✔✔Gross negligence - ✔✔Lack of diligence or care.
✔✔Implied consent - ✔✔Applies to unconscious or incapable patients
✔✔Informed consent - ✔✔Treatment, risks and benefits have been explained.
✔✔Kidnapping - ✔✔Seizing, confining, abducting, or carrying away by force
✔✔Libel - ✔✔a published false statement
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔Failure to provide same care that person with similar training would
provide in same or similar situation
✔✔PHI - ✔✔Protected Health Information
, ✔✔Rigor mortis - ✔✔stiffening
✔✔Slander - ✔✔making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation
✔✔The determination that prompt surgical care in the hospital is more important than
performing time-consuming procedures in the field on a major trauma patient is based
MOSTLY on: - ✔✔EMS Research
✔✔The ability to take appropriate action with little direction is known as ______ -
✔✔self-motivation
✔✔Which of the following interventions is used by all levels of EMS providers? -
✔✔Automated External Defibrillator
✔✔Prehospital patient care decision should be based on _____ - ✔✔EMS Research
✔✔Online medical control requires______ - ✔✔Phone or radio contact with the medical
director
✔✔The EMT is legally obligated to protect a patient's privacy according to _______ -
✔✔HIPAA
✔✔Which of the following is a specific example of the Mobile Integrated Healthcare
(MIH) model? - ✔✔The paramedic administers a patient's flu vaccination
✔✔As an EMT, you may be authorized to administer aspirin to a patient with chest pain
based on: - ✔✔Medical director approval
✔✔The ability to handle multiple tasks based on their priority is called_______ - ✔✔time
management
✔✔National guidelines for EMS care are intended to _______ - ✔✔Provide more
consistent delivery of EMS care across the United States
✔✔Which of the following statements regarding the NREMT is correct? - ✔✔The
NREMT provides a national standard for EMS testing
✔✔American Heart Association protocols are based on ____ - ✔✔Evidence-based
research
✔✔The ability to understand others and have them understand you is known as
_______ - ✔✔Communication
