EMS - PATIENT ASSESSMENT UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

EMS - PATIENT ASSESSMENT UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. SUBJECTIVE condition the patient feels and tells you about.
Answer:
Symptom

Question:
2. OBJECTIVE condition you can observe about the patient.
Answer:
Sign

Question:
3. Who must master and be comfortable with the patient assessment process?
Answer:
EMT

Question:
4. What is used, to some degree, in every patient encounter?
Answer:
Patient assessment

Question:
5. Scene size-up, Primary assessment, History taking, Secondary assessment, Reassessment are the 5 main
parts of what?
Answer:
Assessment process

Question:
6. How often does one sign or symptom reveal the patient's status or underlying problem?
Answer:
Rarely

Question:
7. What process is the ground on which all levels of EMT education programs are built? This is also the
foundation of all patient care.
Answer:
Patient Assessment

Question:
8. How you prepare for a specific situation
Answer:
Scene size-up

,Question:
9. Scene size-up begins with the?
Answer:
Dispatchers basic info

Question:
10. Scene size-up must be combined with an inspection of the scene to help you?
Answer:
Ensure safety

Question:
11. During what phase of the assessment process are you to identify hazards, safety concerns, the number
of patients, and identify your need for additional resources?
Answer:
Scene size-up

Question:
12. This setting is uncontrolled and isolated; it is unpredictable, dangerous, and unforgiving. With a
potential for injury.
Answer:
prehospital

Question:
13. Who's safety comes first when responding to any incident?
Answer:
mine

Question:
14. Your safety begins with wearing what?
Answer:
ANSI 207 hi-vis vest

Question:
15. What does ANSI stand for?
Answer:
American National Standards Institute

Question:
16. When should you look for possible danger on the scene?
Answer:
Before stepping out of vehicle and as you approach

Question:
17. Always consider what when using a stretcher?
Answer:
difficult terrain

, Question:
18. How would you typically leave an area with a stretcher?
Answer:
The way you entered

Question:
19. Do not enter a potentially dangerous scene until a professional rescuer has made the scene what?
Answer:
Safe

Question:
20. When should you consider traffic safety issues?
Answer:
Vehicle rescue

Question:
21. Your patient may be outdoors, indoors, or in a public space. You must also be aware of weather and the
terrain. these are examples of what?
Answer:
Environmental conditions

Question:
22. When working in unfavorable/unstable conditions, you should consider taking the same action you did
for yourself to protect who?
Answer:
patient

Question:
23. if appropriate, you should help protect ________ from becoming patients as well.
Answer:
bystanders

Question:
24. Chemical/biologic, Electricity from downed lines or lighting, Water hazards, Fires, explosions,
Potentially toxic environments, Hazards found at every MVC, are examples of what?
Answer:
hazards

Question:
25. If the scene is unsafe?
Answer:
make it safe

Question:
26. If it is not possible to make a scene safe before entering?