EMT NREMT PRACTICE EXAM
Q: Which of the following refers to a program or process for evaluating and improving
the effectiveness of an EMS System
a. Quality Improvement
b. System effectiveness management
c. Process Improvement Plan (PIP)
d. Total Quality System - Answers -a
In 1966 the National Highway Safety Act charged which of the following agencies with
the development of emergency medical service standards?
A) U.S. Department of Transportation
B) U.S. Department of the Interior
C) U.S. Department of Health Services
D) U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Answers -a
Centralized coordination of emergency medical access, transportation, and care most
refers to which of the following?
A) Emergency preparedness plan
B) Trauma system
C) Resource management
D) Central deployment - Answers -c
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of the modern emergency medical
services (EMS) system?
A) To have trained personnel respond quickly and provide emergency care on the
scene, during transport, and at the hospital
B) To have trained personnel capable of assessing and caring for injured and ill patients
on the scene
C) To have trained personnel understand the limitations of their training and "do no
harm," while providing prompt transport to the hospital
D) To have trained personnel knowledgeable in all aspects of prehospital care -
Answers -a
Which of the following refers to a program or process for evaluating and improving the
effectiveness of an EMS System
a. Quality Improvement
b. System effectiveness management
c. Process Improvement Plan (PIP)
d. Total Quality System - Answers -a
Which of the following agencies is responsible for establish EMS system assessment
programs?
a. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
b. United States Health Services Agency (HSA)
,c. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
d. National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations (NHTSA) - Answers -d
Which of the following is the primary responsibility of the EMT?
a. Protect and stabilize the patient
b. Maintain personal health and safety
c. Communicate with other responders on the scene
d. Provide emergency care - Answers -b
What BEST defines the evaluation of the patient's condition in order to provide
emergency care?
a. Patient Advocacy
b. Medical Intervention
c. Patient Access
d. Patient Assessment - Answers -d
When covering a patient's mouth and nose with a mask of any kind, which of the
following is the primary risk?
a. Upsetting the patient because of the social stigma
b. Interfering with patient communication
c. Obstructing the ability to visualize and protect the airway
d. Causing or exasperating respiratory illnesses - Answers -c
Which three "Rs" are essential for the EMT to practice when reacting to danger?
a. Ricochet, Recover, Re-entry
b. Realize, React, Reassess
c. Retreat, Radio, Reevaluate
d. Remember, Respect, Respond - Answers -c
Urgent moves are required when
a. Rapid transport is necessary
b. There are no life threats and conditions are stable
c. Performed for treatment of life threats along with precautions for spinal injuries
d. An emergency move is not possible - Answers -c
Which of the following factors housed be considered before lifting any patient
a. Communications
b. The weight of the patient
c. Your physical limitations
d. All of the above - Answers -d
Concept that's used in tort law meaning "the thing speaks for itself" in Latin
a. Res ipso loquitur
b. Tort
c. Negligence
d. In loco parentis - Answers -a
,Consent that's given. By adults who are of legal age and mentally competent to make a
rational decision regarding their medical well-being
a. Implied Consent
b. Expressed Consent
c. In loco parentis
d. Direct Concsent - Answers -b
Consent is presumed a patient or patients parent/guardian would give if they could
a. Implied Consent
b. Expressed Consent
c. In loco parentis
d. Direct Concsent - Answers -a
Consent in a situation where care may be given without direct consent from a
parent/guardian. The child care provider or school authority may act based on what type
of consent?
a. Implied Consent
b. Expressed Consent
c. In loco parentis
d. Involuntary Concsent - Answers -c
What is the danger that an altered mental status can pose to a patients breathing
a. Bronchospasms
b. Hyperoxia
c. Loss of muscle tone and airway collapse d. Depressed alveolar function - Answers -c
For life to be maintained, a balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide is needed. The
condition when oxygen levels are low is called:
a. Hyperventilation
b. Hypoxia
c. Hypercarbia
d. Hypotension - Answers -b
What is the color of a light skinned patient when its normal, also normal at inner eyelids,
lips, and nail beds of dark-skinned patients?
a. Pale
b. Cyanotic
c. Pink
d. Jaundice - Answers -c
What is the color of ones skin when there blood vessels are constricted, usually
resulting from blood loss, shock, hypertension, emotional distress
a. Pale
b. Cyanotic
c. Pink
, d. Jaundice - Answers -a
Lack of oxygen in blood cells and tissues resulting from inadequate breathing or heart
function causes ones skin to be _____
a. Pale
b. Cyanotic
c. Pink
d. Flushed - Answers -b
Exposure to heat, and emotional excitement causes the skin to look
a. Jaundice
b. Cyanotic
c. Mottled
d. Flushed - Answers -d
A patients skin may be ____ if they have abnormalities of their liver
a. Jaundice
b. Cyanotic
c. Mottled
d. Flushed - Answers -a
Which of the following is the primary responsibility of the EMT?
A) Protect and stabilize the patient
B) Communicate with other responders on the scene
C) Maintain personal health and safety
D) Provide emergency care - Answers -c
Which of the following is a personality trait required of EMTs?
A) Ability to lift and carry 125 pounds
B) Awareness of problems with color vision
C) Ability to dominate the patient
D) Control of personal habits - Answers -d
The National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) was founded to
establish which of the following?
A) An education curriculum for EMT courses
B) Quality oversight of emergency medical services practices
C) National standards for emergency medical services personnel
D) Quality improvement and quality assurance programs for emergency medical
services - Answers -c
Why is it important for EMTs to participate in quality improvement programs?
A) To ensure that individuals making false calls for EMS are prosecuted
Q: Which of the following refers to a program or process for evaluating and improving
the effectiveness of an EMS System
a. Quality Improvement
b. System effectiveness management
c. Process Improvement Plan (PIP)
d. Total Quality System - Answers -a
In 1966 the National Highway Safety Act charged which of the following agencies with
the development of emergency medical service standards?
A) U.S. Department of Transportation
B) U.S. Department of the Interior
C) U.S. Department of Health Services
D) U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Answers -a
Centralized coordination of emergency medical access, transportation, and care most
refers to which of the following?
A) Emergency preparedness plan
B) Trauma system
C) Resource management
D) Central deployment - Answers -c
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of the modern emergency medical
services (EMS) system?
A) To have trained personnel respond quickly and provide emergency care on the
scene, during transport, and at the hospital
B) To have trained personnel capable of assessing and caring for injured and ill patients
on the scene
C) To have trained personnel understand the limitations of their training and "do no
harm," while providing prompt transport to the hospital
D) To have trained personnel knowledgeable in all aspects of prehospital care -
Answers -a
Which of the following refers to a program or process for evaluating and improving the
effectiveness of an EMS System
a. Quality Improvement
b. System effectiveness management
c. Process Improvement Plan (PIP)
d. Total Quality System - Answers -a
Which of the following agencies is responsible for establish EMS system assessment
programs?
a. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
b. United States Health Services Agency (HSA)
,c. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
d. National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations (NHTSA) - Answers -d
Which of the following is the primary responsibility of the EMT?
a. Protect and stabilize the patient
b. Maintain personal health and safety
c. Communicate with other responders on the scene
d. Provide emergency care - Answers -b
What BEST defines the evaluation of the patient's condition in order to provide
emergency care?
a. Patient Advocacy
b. Medical Intervention
c. Patient Access
d. Patient Assessment - Answers -d
When covering a patient's mouth and nose with a mask of any kind, which of the
following is the primary risk?
a. Upsetting the patient because of the social stigma
b. Interfering with patient communication
c. Obstructing the ability to visualize and protect the airway
d. Causing or exasperating respiratory illnesses - Answers -c
Which three "Rs" are essential for the EMT to practice when reacting to danger?
a. Ricochet, Recover, Re-entry
b. Realize, React, Reassess
c. Retreat, Radio, Reevaluate
d. Remember, Respect, Respond - Answers -c
Urgent moves are required when
a. Rapid transport is necessary
b. There are no life threats and conditions are stable
c. Performed for treatment of life threats along with precautions for spinal injuries
d. An emergency move is not possible - Answers -c
Which of the following factors housed be considered before lifting any patient
a. Communications
b. The weight of the patient
c. Your physical limitations
d. All of the above - Answers -d
Concept that's used in tort law meaning "the thing speaks for itself" in Latin
a. Res ipso loquitur
b. Tort
c. Negligence
d. In loco parentis - Answers -a
,Consent that's given. By adults who are of legal age and mentally competent to make a
rational decision regarding their medical well-being
a. Implied Consent
b. Expressed Consent
c. In loco parentis
d. Direct Concsent - Answers -b
Consent is presumed a patient or patients parent/guardian would give if they could
a. Implied Consent
b. Expressed Consent
c. In loco parentis
d. Direct Concsent - Answers -a
Consent in a situation where care may be given without direct consent from a
parent/guardian. The child care provider or school authority may act based on what type
of consent?
a. Implied Consent
b. Expressed Consent
c. In loco parentis
d. Involuntary Concsent - Answers -c
What is the danger that an altered mental status can pose to a patients breathing
a. Bronchospasms
b. Hyperoxia
c. Loss of muscle tone and airway collapse d. Depressed alveolar function - Answers -c
For life to be maintained, a balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide is needed. The
condition when oxygen levels are low is called:
a. Hyperventilation
b. Hypoxia
c. Hypercarbia
d. Hypotension - Answers -b
What is the color of a light skinned patient when its normal, also normal at inner eyelids,
lips, and nail beds of dark-skinned patients?
a. Pale
b. Cyanotic
c. Pink
d. Jaundice - Answers -c
What is the color of ones skin when there blood vessels are constricted, usually
resulting from blood loss, shock, hypertension, emotional distress
a. Pale
b. Cyanotic
c. Pink
, d. Jaundice - Answers -a
Lack of oxygen in blood cells and tissues resulting from inadequate breathing or heart
function causes ones skin to be _____
a. Pale
b. Cyanotic
c. Pink
d. Flushed - Answers -b
Exposure to heat, and emotional excitement causes the skin to look
a. Jaundice
b. Cyanotic
c. Mottled
d. Flushed - Answers -d
A patients skin may be ____ if they have abnormalities of their liver
a. Jaundice
b. Cyanotic
c. Mottled
d. Flushed - Answers -a
Which of the following is the primary responsibility of the EMT?
A) Protect and stabilize the patient
B) Communicate with other responders on the scene
C) Maintain personal health and safety
D) Provide emergency care - Answers -c
Which of the following is a personality trait required of EMTs?
A) Ability to lift and carry 125 pounds
B) Awareness of problems with color vision
C) Ability to dominate the patient
D) Control of personal habits - Answers -d
The National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) was founded to
establish which of the following?
A) An education curriculum for EMT courses
B) Quality oversight of emergency medical services practices
C) National standards for emergency medical services personnel
D) Quality improvement and quality assurance programs for emergency medical
services - Answers -c
Why is it important for EMTs to participate in quality improvement programs?
A) To ensure that individuals making false calls for EMS are prosecuted
