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Paramedic Care Principles & Practice Quiz Questions
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The ________ guidelines outline how employers and employees share
responsibility for
ensuring that Standard Precautions are used to assist in preventing
contamination from blood and
other bodily fluids.
A) HIPAA
B) AHA
C) AMA
D) OSHA
D
Which of the following is NOT part of the commitment that an EMS provider
needs to have
to prevent illness and injury?
A) Parking the unit in the safest place to load the patient, then directing traffic
B) Being familiar with local and state traffic laws and obeying them
C) Consistently incorporating exercise and a health-minded attitude into his
life
D) Knowing his limits and taking time out to relax when necessary
A
What tends to be the first body part that is injured in a pediatric patient during
a motor
vehicle collision?
A) Chest
B) Head
C) Abdomen
D) Neck
B
What is the most common mechanism of injury for children younger than 6
years old?
A) Firearms
B) Abuse and assault
C) Motor vehicle collision
D) Falls
D
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What is the biggest preventable injury in the geriatric population?
A) Falls
B) Firearms
C) Accidental overdose
D) Abuse
A
Almost one-half of public workplace injuries occur to all of the following
EXCEPT:
A) the back.
B) the eyes.
C) the feet.
D) the hands.
C
Which of the following can lead to a medication-related illness/injury?
A) Following the medication directions of the pharmacist
B) Taking only 7 of the 10 prescribed antibiotic pills
C) Seeking prescriptions only from an urgent care facility
D) Refilling a medication prescription two days prior to the expiration date
B
A community issue that may require EMS assistance in developing a
prevention program is:
A) epidemiological research.
B) financial support.
C) recognizing scene hazards.
D) early discharge of a patient.
C
A hazardous or potentially hazardous situation that puts people in danger of
sustaining injury
best defines which of the following?
A) Injury risk
B) Injury surveillance
C) Injury
D) Accident
A
Certain situations, such as epidemics and disasters, call for which of the
following actions?
A) Public health law research program
B) Epidemiological research
C) Public health agency police powers
D) Illness and prevention laws
C
Which of the following is one of the components that must be in place for EMS
and public
health to work together?
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A) Strong medical oversight
B) Legislative doctrines
C) Educating the community about EMS
D) Passive pursuit of finances
A
Which of the following is NOT a prevention strategy that EMS personnel
should be able to
implement?
A) Preserving the safety of the response team
B) Policing powers
C) Document findings
D) Knowing the community resources
B
State laws requiring the reporting of births, deaths, certain infectious
diseases, and child and
elder abuse and neglect may require the paramedic to breach the obligation to
protect the
patient's:
A) right to self-determination.
B) First Amendment rights.
C) confidentiality.
D) autonomy.
C
The four fundamental principles or values used to resolve problems in
bioethics today include
all of the following EXCEPT:
A) beneficence.
B) maleficence.
C) autonomy.
D) egalitarianism.
D
The obligation of a paramedic to treat all patients fairly is an example of the
principle of:
A) beneficence.
B) democracy.
C) sovereignty.
D) justice.
D
Your paramedic partner is telling you about a situation in which he
resuscitated a patient with
a DNR, even though the DNR was present and available to him at the time he
began
resuscitation. He tells you he is justified because the patient survived for a
year after the incident
and suffered no ill effects from the cardiac arrest or the resuscitation efforts.
Paramedic Care Principles & Practice Quiz Questions
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The ________ guidelines outline how employers and employees share
responsibility for
ensuring that Standard Precautions are used to assist in preventing
contamination from blood and
other bodily fluids.
A) HIPAA
B) AHA
C) AMA
D) OSHA
D
Which of the following is NOT part of the commitment that an EMS provider
needs to have
to prevent illness and injury?
A) Parking the unit in the safest place to load the patient, then directing traffic
B) Being familiar with local and state traffic laws and obeying them
C) Consistently incorporating exercise and a health-minded attitude into his
life
D) Knowing his limits and taking time out to relax when necessary
A
What tends to be the first body part that is injured in a pediatric patient during
a motor
vehicle collision?
A) Chest
B) Head
C) Abdomen
D) Neck
B
What is the most common mechanism of injury for children younger than 6
years old?
A) Firearms
B) Abuse and assault
C) Motor vehicle collision
D) Falls
D
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What is the biggest preventable injury in the geriatric population?
A) Falls
B) Firearms
C) Accidental overdose
D) Abuse
A
Almost one-half of public workplace injuries occur to all of the following
EXCEPT:
A) the back.
B) the eyes.
C) the feet.
D) the hands.
C
Which of the following can lead to a medication-related illness/injury?
A) Following the medication directions of the pharmacist
B) Taking only 7 of the 10 prescribed antibiotic pills
C) Seeking prescriptions only from an urgent care facility
D) Refilling a medication prescription two days prior to the expiration date
B
A community issue that may require EMS assistance in developing a
prevention program is:
A) epidemiological research.
B) financial support.
C) recognizing scene hazards.
D) early discharge of a patient.
C
A hazardous or potentially hazardous situation that puts people in danger of
sustaining injury
best defines which of the following?
A) Injury risk
B) Injury surveillance
C) Injury
D) Accident
A
Certain situations, such as epidemics and disasters, call for which of the
following actions?
A) Public health law research program
B) Epidemiological research
C) Public health agency police powers
D) Illness and prevention laws
C
Which of the following is one of the components that must be in place for EMS
and public
health to work together?
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A) Strong medical oversight
B) Legislative doctrines
C) Educating the community about EMS
D) Passive pursuit of finances
A
Which of the following is NOT a prevention strategy that EMS personnel
should be able to
implement?
A) Preserving the safety of the response team
B) Policing powers
C) Document findings
D) Knowing the community resources
B
State laws requiring the reporting of births, deaths, certain infectious
diseases, and child and
elder abuse and neglect may require the paramedic to breach the obligation to
protect the
patient's:
A) right to self-determination.
B) First Amendment rights.
C) confidentiality.
D) autonomy.
C
The four fundamental principles or values used to resolve problems in
bioethics today include
all of the following EXCEPT:
A) beneficence.
B) maleficence.
C) autonomy.
D) egalitarianism.
D
The obligation of a paramedic to treat all patients fairly is an example of the
principle of:
A) beneficence.
B) democracy.
C) sovereignty.
D) justice.
D
Your paramedic partner is telling you about a situation in which he
resuscitated a patient with
a DNR, even though the DNR was present and available to him at the time he
began
resuscitation. He tells you he is justified because the patient survived for a
year after the incident
and suffered no ill effects from the cardiac arrest or the resuscitation efforts.
