NREMT - Everything Needed to be Known.
NREMT – Study Guide Exam Containing
288 Questions (Everything you Should
Know to Ace NREMT) with Definitive
Solutions 2024-2025.
Medical Direction - Answer: Oversight of the patient-care aspects of an EMS
system by the Medical Director.
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Protocols - Answer: lists of steps, such as assessments and interventions, to be
taken in different situations. Protocols are developed by the Medical Director of
an EMS system
Offline Direction - Answer: consists of standing orders issued by the medical
director that allows EMTs to give certain medications or perform certain
procedures without speaking to the medical director or another physician.
Online Direction - Answer: consists of orders from the on-duty physician given
directly to an EMT-B in the field by radio or telephone.
Standing Orders - Answer: A policy or protocol issued by a Medical Director that
authorizes EMT-Bs and others to perform particular skills in certain situations.
HEPA Mask - Answer: High Efficiency Particulate Air respirator; used for patients
with suspected TB; worn by the EMT provider to prevent airborne transmission
Hepatitis B - Answer: infectious inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis B
virus (HBV) that is transmitted sexually or by exposure to contaminated blood or
body fluid
Hepatitis C - Answer: inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus,
transmitted by exposure to infected blood (rarely contracted sexually)
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Tuberculosis - Answer: Infectious disease caused by the tubercle bacillus,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Most commonly affects the respiratory system and
causes inflammation and calcification of the system.
Acute Stress - Answer: short term ; fight or flight response ; effects disappear
quickly after it is over
Scope of Practice - Answer: What we are allowed to do or trained to do
Standard Care - Answer: the degree of care that a reasonably prudent person
should exercise under the same or similar circumstances
Duty to Act - Answer: an obligation to provide care to a patient
Good Samaritan - Answer: a person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in
times of trouble
Expressed Consent - Answer: Permission that must be obtained from every
conscious, mentally competent adult before emergency treatment may be
provided
Implied Consent - Answer: The consent it is presumed a patient or patient's
parent or gaurdian would give if they could, such as for an unconscious patient or
a parent who cannot be contacted when care is needed.
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Treatment of a Minor - Answer: Must be given by legal guardian
Involuntary - Answer: Mentally incompetent person
Advanced Directive - Answer: a legal document prepared by a living, competent
adult to provide guidance to the health care team if the individual should become
unable to make decisions regarding his or her medical care; may also be called a
living will or durable power of attorney for health care
Polst - Answer: Physicians orders for life sustaining treatment. May include order
for DO NOT RESUSCITATE
PCR - Answer: Prehospital care report
Emergency Move - Answer: a move made when there is an immediate danger to
the patient.
Urgent Move - Answer: Move used if a scne factor causes a decline in patient's
condition, or if the treatment of a patient requires a move.
Non urgent move - Answer: No immediate threat to life, are carried out in such a
way as to prevent injury and to avoid discomfort and pain.
bariatric stretcher - Answer: Stretcher for obese patients
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NREMT – Study Guide Exam Containing
288 Questions (Everything you Should
Know to Ace NREMT) with Definitive
Solutions 2024-2025.
Medical Direction - Answer: Oversight of the patient-care aspects of an EMS
system by the Medical Director.
1
, NREMT - Everything Needed to be Known.
Protocols - Answer: lists of steps, such as assessments and interventions, to be
taken in different situations. Protocols are developed by the Medical Director of
an EMS system
Offline Direction - Answer: consists of standing orders issued by the medical
director that allows EMTs to give certain medications or perform certain
procedures without speaking to the medical director or another physician.
Online Direction - Answer: consists of orders from the on-duty physician given
directly to an EMT-B in the field by radio or telephone.
Standing Orders - Answer: A policy or protocol issued by a Medical Director that
authorizes EMT-Bs and others to perform particular skills in certain situations.
HEPA Mask - Answer: High Efficiency Particulate Air respirator; used for patients
with suspected TB; worn by the EMT provider to prevent airborne transmission
Hepatitis B - Answer: infectious inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis B
virus (HBV) that is transmitted sexually or by exposure to contaminated blood or
body fluid
Hepatitis C - Answer: inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus,
transmitted by exposure to infected blood (rarely contracted sexually)
2
, NREMT - Everything Needed to be Known.
Tuberculosis - Answer: Infectious disease caused by the tubercle bacillus,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Most commonly affects the respiratory system and
causes inflammation and calcification of the system.
Acute Stress - Answer: short term ; fight or flight response ; effects disappear
quickly after it is over
Scope of Practice - Answer: What we are allowed to do or trained to do
Standard Care - Answer: the degree of care that a reasonably prudent person
should exercise under the same or similar circumstances
Duty to Act - Answer: an obligation to provide care to a patient
Good Samaritan - Answer: a person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in
times of trouble
Expressed Consent - Answer: Permission that must be obtained from every
conscious, mentally competent adult before emergency treatment may be
provided
Implied Consent - Answer: The consent it is presumed a patient or patient's
parent or gaurdian would give if they could, such as for an unconscious patient or
a parent who cannot be contacted when care is needed.
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, NREMT - Everything Needed to be Known.
Treatment of a Minor - Answer: Must be given by legal guardian
Involuntary - Answer: Mentally incompetent person
Advanced Directive - Answer: a legal document prepared by a living, competent
adult to provide guidance to the health care team if the individual should become
unable to make decisions regarding his or her medical care; may also be called a
living will or durable power of attorney for health care
Polst - Answer: Physicians orders for life sustaining treatment. May include order
for DO NOT RESUSCITATE
PCR - Answer: Prehospital care report
Emergency Move - Answer: a move made when there is an immediate danger to
the patient.
Urgent Move - Answer: Move used if a scne factor causes a decline in patient's
condition, or if the treatment of a patient requires a move.
Non urgent move - Answer: No immediate threat to life, are carried out in such a
way as to prevent injury and to avoid discomfort and pain.
bariatric stretcher - Answer: Stretcher for obese patients
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