Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
Advanced EMT 2nd Edition
(Alexander/Belle) Chapter 14 Patient
Assessment and Clinical Reasoning
Questions and Correct Verified Answers
A systematic process of collecting relevant patient information in order to determine a
patient's medical condition and establish priorities for treatment and transport would
be known as:
✓ patient assessment
Giving oxygen to a patient without having to have a specific diagnosis of the underlying
cause of difficulty breathing would be an example of using:
✓ assessment-based management
An AEMT engaging in a systematic reasoning process to explain the assessment
findings would be exercising:
✓ clinical problem solving
An AEMT provider's provisional diagnosis of a patient's medical problem upon which
the medical treatment plan is based would be referred to as:
✓ field impression
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, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
The means by which energy, often mechanical forces, is transmitted to the body,
producing the potential for trauma would be defined as the:
✓ mechanism of injury
What question is NOT a goal of the patient assessment process?
✓ "What kind of insurance does the patient have?"
Successful patient assessment requires that you FIRST establish:
✓ trust and rapport with the patient
Patient assessment consists of four essential components. These components in order
from beginning to end of the call would be:
✓ scene size-up, primary assessment, secondary assessment, and reassessment
During which essential component of patient assessment does the AEMT monitor the
patient's condition for changes, assess the effects of treatment, and make adjustments
in treatment as needed?
✓ reassessment
During which essential component of patient assessment does the AEMT collect vital
signs, obtain a medical history, and look for additional signs of injury and illness?
✓ secondary assessment
Top Mark !!!
Advanced EMT 2nd Edition
(Alexander/Belle) Chapter 14 Patient
Assessment and Clinical Reasoning
Questions and Correct Verified Answers
A systematic process of collecting relevant patient information in order to determine a
patient's medical condition and establish priorities for treatment and transport would
be known as:
✓ patient assessment
Giving oxygen to a patient without having to have a specific diagnosis of the underlying
cause of difficulty breathing would be an example of using:
✓ assessment-based management
An AEMT engaging in a systematic reasoning process to explain the assessment
findings would be exercising:
✓ clinical problem solving
An AEMT provider's provisional diagnosis of a patient's medical problem upon which
the medical treatment plan is based would be referred to as:
✓ field impression
Top Mark !!!
, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
The means by which energy, often mechanical forces, is transmitted to the body,
producing the potential for trauma would be defined as the:
✓ mechanism of injury
What question is NOT a goal of the patient assessment process?
✓ "What kind of insurance does the patient have?"
Successful patient assessment requires that you FIRST establish:
✓ trust and rapport with the patient
Patient assessment consists of four essential components. These components in order
from beginning to end of the call would be:
✓ scene size-up, primary assessment, secondary assessment, and reassessment
During which essential component of patient assessment does the AEMT monitor the
patient's condition for changes, assess the effects of treatment, and make adjustments
in treatment as needed?
✓ reassessment
During which essential component of patient assessment does the AEMT collect vital
signs, obtain a medical history, and look for additional signs of injury and illness?
✓ secondary assessment
Top Mark !!!
