FIRST RESPONDER UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is a component of a typical EMS system?
Answer:
Ambulance Service Hospital Communication Center *Rehabilitation Center is not
Question:
2. Which level of EMS provider is the most common and is trained to provide basic life-support care
as well as transport people to a hospital?
Answer:
EMT
Question:
3. As an Emergency Responder, what is your primary responsibility at the scene of an emergency?
Answer:
Ensure that the scene is safe
Question:
4. In the EMS system, who is the person responsible for developing emergency care protocols?
Answer:
Medical Director
Question:
5. In the workplace, which device is better to access 911?
Answer:
Land line
Question:
6. What is the term that refers to your legal obligation to assist an ill or injured person?
Answer:
Duty
Question:
7. What is the term: you are not to discuss information about the ill or injured person with others
unless they are directly involved with the person's care?
Answer:
Confidentiality
Question:
8. You are allowed to care for an unconscious person who is injured based on what consent?
Answer:
Implied
, Question:
9. You are caring for an ill person who becomes uncon-scious. You get overwhelmed and decide to
leave the scene. You may be accused of a negligent act called what?
Answer:
Abandonment
Question:
10. What is the most appropriate way to manage an ill or injured person who you feel is in need of
care but is refusing it?
Answer:
Call 911
Question:
11. What type of ill or injured person presents the great-est risk of exposure to blood for an
Emergency Re-sponder?
Answer:
A person with an open wound to the forehead
Question:
12. You arrive at the scene of an emergency in the park-ing lot at work. You find a car that has
crashed into a power pole with two people inside who are crying in pain. The power pole is leaning
over and looks like it may fall at any moment. What should you do first?
Answer:
Prevent others from entering the scene and call 911.
Question:
13. You are assisting an injured worker who was cut severely by a large shard of glass. While helping
him, you kneel down on some broken glass that was covered with blood. The glass causes several
small cuts on your knee. This type of exposure would be referred to as what?
Answer:
Injection
Question:
14. Using personal protective equipment such as gloves to protect yourself from being exposed to
blood is known as what type of precautions?
Answer:
Body Substance Isolation
Question:
15. You have just finished helping at the scene of an emergency and notice some blood from the
person on the back of your forearm. What should you do first?
Answer:
Immediately wash with soap and warm water
Question:
16. Denial, fear, and guilt are signs and symptoms of what type of stress response?
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is a component of a typical EMS system?
Answer:
Ambulance Service Hospital Communication Center *Rehabilitation Center is not
Question:
2. Which level of EMS provider is the most common and is trained to provide basic life-support care
as well as transport people to a hospital?
Answer:
EMT
Question:
3. As an Emergency Responder, what is your primary responsibility at the scene of an emergency?
Answer:
Ensure that the scene is safe
Question:
4. In the EMS system, who is the person responsible for developing emergency care protocols?
Answer:
Medical Director
Question:
5. In the workplace, which device is better to access 911?
Answer:
Land line
Question:
6. What is the term that refers to your legal obligation to assist an ill or injured person?
Answer:
Duty
Question:
7. What is the term: you are not to discuss information about the ill or injured person with others
unless they are directly involved with the person's care?
Answer:
Confidentiality
Question:
8. You are allowed to care for an unconscious person who is injured based on what consent?
Answer:
Implied
, Question:
9. You are caring for an ill person who becomes uncon-scious. You get overwhelmed and decide to
leave the scene. You may be accused of a negligent act called what?
Answer:
Abandonment
Question:
10. What is the most appropriate way to manage an ill or injured person who you feel is in need of
care but is refusing it?
Answer:
Call 911
Question:
11. What type of ill or injured person presents the great-est risk of exposure to blood for an
Emergency Re-sponder?
Answer:
A person with an open wound to the forehead
Question:
12. You arrive at the scene of an emergency in the park-ing lot at work. You find a car that has
crashed into a power pole with two people inside who are crying in pain. The power pole is leaning
over and looks like it may fall at any moment. What should you do first?
Answer:
Prevent others from entering the scene and call 911.
Question:
13. You are assisting an injured worker who was cut severely by a large shard of glass. While helping
him, you kneel down on some broken glass that was covered with blood. The glass causes several
small cuts on your knee. This type of exposure would be referred to as what?
Answer:
Injection
Question:
14. Using personal protective equipment such as gloves to protect yourself from being exposed to
blood is known as what type of precautions?
Answer:
Body Substance Isolation
Question:
15. You have just finished helping at the scene of an emergency and notice some blood from the
person on the back of your forearm. What should you do first?
Answer:
Immediately wash with soap and warm water
Question:
16. Denial, fear, and guilt are signs and symptoms of what type of stress response?
