NYS EMT CERTIFYING EXAM Questions and Answers (Verified Answers) Latest Update 2023

Providing care within the scope of practice would be considered behavior in accordance with: 1. The sovereign immunity doctrine 2. Approved protocols 3. Professional Standards 4. Institutional Standards - correct answers Professional Standards As you lift a patient into the rear of the ambulance, a reporter recognizes the patient as a State Senator. Immediately the press demands to be told what has happened to the senator. You Should: 1. Advise the press that you are unable to comment 2. Deny the patient is the Senator 3. Tell the press your diagnosis 4. Advise the press to contact the Senator's family - correct answers Advise the press that you are unable to commentIf the patient care protocols have been revised, it is the EMS providers responsibility to 1. Attend in-service training with the agency medical director to become familiar with the new protocols 2. Continue to use the old protocols because they are already familiar 3. Begin to use the new protocols as soon as the agency receives them 4. Operate only when in direct communication with the physician - correct answers Attend in-service training with the agency medical director to become familiar with new protocols During the Initial Assessment, you are assessing a conscious trauma patient complaining loudly of pain in the leg. You should 1. Begin to obtain the history 2. Assess the leg immediately 3. Discontinue the initial Assessment, start the Detailed Physical Exam