AMERICAN RED CROSS BLS FINAL ASSESSMENT 2026 | COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
& PRACTICE QUESTIONS
While orienting a new medical assistant to the facility, you find a patient who is unresponsive in
the exam room. You yell to the medical assistant, "Go get the AED!" Which response by the
medical assistant demonstrates closed-loop communication? - (answer)-"I'll go get the AED."
The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines she is choking. Which intervention should
the nurse implement? - (answer)-Cycles of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts
After immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is the next link in the Adult
In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival? - (answer)-Early high-quality CPR
You are providing high-quality CPR on a 6-year-old patient who weighs 44 pounds. The AED
arrives. It does not have a pediatric setting and includes only adult AED pads. What should you
do? - (answer)-Use the adult AED pads.
You have assessed your patient and recognized that they are in cardiac arrest. You should begin
CPR __________. - (answer)-Immediately
You enter Ms. Evers's room and notice she is slumped over in her chair and appears
unresponsive and cyanotic. You do not see signs of life-threatening bleeding. Which is the next
appropriate action? - (answer)-Check for responsiveness.
A well-organized team response when performing high-quality CPR includes ensuring that
providers switch off performing compressions every _____ minutes. - (answer)-2
You and two nurses have been performing CPR on a 72-year-old patient, Ben Phillips. When Mr.
Phillips shows signs of ROSC, where should you perform the pulse check? - (answer)-At the
carotid or femoral artery
& PRACTICE QUESTIONS
While orienting a new medical assistant to the facility, you find a patient who is unresponsive in
the exam room. You yell to the medical assistant, "Go get the AED!" Which response by the
medical assistant demonstrates closed-loop communication? - (answer)-"I'll go get the AED."
The nurse assesses a responsive adult and determines she is choking. Which intervention should
the nurse implement? - (answer)-Cycles of 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts
After immediately initiating the emergency response system, what is the next link in the Adult
In-Hospital Cardiac Chain of Survival? - (answer)-Early high-quality CPR
You are providing high-quality CPR on a 6-year-old patient who weighs 44 pounds. The AED
arrives. It does not have a pediatric setting and includes only adult AED pads. What should you
do? - (answer)-Use the adult AED pads.
You have assessed your patient and recognized that they are in cardiac arrest. You should begin
CPR __________. - (answer)-Immediately
You enter Ms. Evers's room and notice she is slumped over in her chair and appears
unresponsive and cyanotic. You do not see signs of life-threatening bleeding. Which is the next
appropriate action? - (answer)-Check for responsiveness.
A well-organized team response when performing high-quality CPR includes ensuring that
providers switch off performing compressions every _____ minutes. - (answer)-2
You and two nurses have been performing CPR on a 72-year-old patient, Ben Phillips. When Mr.
Phillips shows signs of ROSC, where should you perform the pulse check? - (answer)-At the
carotid or femoral artery
