EMT: EXAM 2 STUDY QUESTIONS
The collective set of regulations and ethical considerations governing the EMT is called:
a. duty to act
b. scope of practice
c. advanced directives
d. good Samaritan laws
B
Legislation that governs the skills and medical interventions that may be performed by the EMT is:
a. standardized (uniform) throughout the country
b. different from state to state
c. standardized for regions within a state
d. governed by the US Department of Transportation
B
When the EMT makes the physical/emotional needs of the patient a priority, this is considered a(n)_______ of the EMT.
a. advanced directive
b. protocol
c. ethical responsibility
d. legal responsibility
C
Which one of the following is NOT a type of consent required for any treatment or action by an EMT?
a. child and mentally incompetent adult
b. implied
c. applied
d. expressed C
When you informed the adult patient of the procedures were about to perform and its associated risks, you are asking for his or her:
a. expressed consent
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied
A
You are treating a patient that was found unconscious at the bottom of the stairwell. Consent that is based on the assumption that an unconscious patient would approve the EMT's life-saving interventions is called:
a. expressed
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied
C
Your record of a patient's refusal of medical care (aid) or transport should include all of the following
EXCEPT:
a. informing the patient of the risks and consequences of refusal
b. documenting the steps you took
c. signing of the form by the medical director
d. obtaining a release form with the patient's witnessed signature
C
Forcing a competent adult patient to go to the hospital agains his or her will may result in _______ charges against the EMT. a. abandonment
b. assault and battery
c. implied consent
d. negligence
B
Which of the following is an action you should not take if a patient refuses care?
a. leave phone stickers with emergency numbers
b. recommend that a relative call the family physician to report the incident
c. tell the patient to call his or her family physician if the problem reoccurs
d. call a relative or neighbor who can stay with the patient
C. In all cases of refusal you should advise patients to call EMS back at any time if there is a problem or they wish to be transported.
Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive
D
There are varying degrees of DNR orders, expressed through a variety of detailed instructions that may be part of the order such as:
a. allowing CPR only if cardiac or respiratory arrest was observed
b. allowing comfort-care measures such as intravenous feeding
c. disallowing the use of long-term life-support measures
d. specify that only five minutes of artificial respiration will be attempted A. The other options are part of a living will and not a DNR order. DNR orders generally do not specify procedures that are improper such as specifying that only five minutes of artificial respiration
will be attempted.
In a hospital, long-term life support and comfort care measures would consist of intravenous feeding
and:
a. routine inoculations
b. the use of a respirator
c. infection control by the healthcare providers
d. hourly patient documentation
B. Once a patient is considered terminal, routine inoculations will not be needed. Infection control by the healthcare providers is a given. Documentation needs to be the same as it would be had the patient not had an advance directive.
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If an EMT with a duty to act fails to provide the standard of care, and if this failure causes harm or injury to the patient, the EMT may be accused of:
a. res ipsa loquitur
b. negligence
c. abandonment
d. assault
B
Leaving a patient on the hallway stretcher in a busy ED and leaving without giving report with a healthcare professional is an example of:
The collective set of regulations and ethical considerations governing the EMT is called:
a. duty to act
b. scope of practice
c. advanced directives
d. good Samaritan laws
B
Legislation that governs the skills and medical interventions that may be performed by the EMT is:
a. standardized (uniform) throughout the country
b. different from state to state
c. standardized for regions within a state
d. governed by the US Department of Transportation
B
When the EMT makes the physical/emotional needs of the patient a priority, this is considered a(n)_______ of the EMT.
a. advanced directive
b. protocol
c. ethical responsibility
d. legal responsibility
C
Which one of the following is NOT a type of consent required for any treatment or action by an EMT?
a. child and mentally incompetent adult
b. implied
c. applied
d. expressed C
When you informed the adult patient of the procedures were about to perform and its associated risks, you are asking for his or her:
a. expressed consent
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied
A
You are treating a patient that was found unconscious at the bottom of the stairwell. Consent that is based on the assumption that an unconscious patient would approve the EMT's life-saving interventions is called:
a. expressed
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied
C
Your record of a patient's refusal of medical care (aid) or transport should include all of the following
EXCEPT:
a. informing the patient of the risks and consequences of refusal
b. documenting the steps you took
c. signing of the form by the medical director
d. obtaining a release form with the patient's witnessed signature
C
Forcing a competent adult patient to go to the hospital agains his or her will may result in _______ charges against the EMT. a. abandonment
b. assault and battery
c. implied consent
d. negligence
B
Which of the following is an action you should not take if a patient refuses care?
a. leave phone stickers with emergency numbers
b. recommend that a relative call the family physician to report the incident
c. tell the patient to call his or her family physician if the problem reoccurs
d. call a relative or neighbor who can stay with the patient
C. In all cases of refusal you should advise patients to call EMS back at any time if there is a problem or they wish to be transported.
Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive
D
There are varying degrees of DNR orders, expressed through a variety of detailed instructions that may be part of the order such as:
a. allowing CPR only if cardiac or respiratory arrest was observed
b. allowing comfort-care measures such as intravenous feeding
c. disallowing the use of long-term life-support measures
d. specify that only five minutes of artificial respiration will be attempted A. The other options are part of a living will and not a DNR order. DNR orders generally do not specify procedures that are improper such as specifying that only five minutes of artificial respiration
will be attempted.
In a hospital, long-term life support and comfort care measures would consist of intravenous feeding
and:
a. routine inoculations
b. the use of a respirator
c. infection control by the healthcare providers
d. hourly patient documentation
B. Once a patient is considered terminal, routine inoculations will not be needed. Infection control by the healthcare providers is a given. Documentation needs to be the same as it would be had the patient not had an advance directive.
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If an EMT with a duty to act fails to provide the standard of care, and if this failure causes harm or injury to the patient, the EMT may be accused of:
a. res ipsa loquitur
b. negligence
c. abandonment
d. assault
B
Leaving a patient on the hallway stretcher in a busy ED and leaving without giving report with a healthcare professional is an example of:
