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1) What is a primary purpose of the modern-day EMS system?
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B) Ensure that all members of society have equal access to hospitals
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C) Decrease the incidence of death and disability related to injury and illness
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D) Provide emergency health care services to medically underserved areas
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2) Most authorities agree that the modern-
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day EMS system evolved after the release of which document?
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A) The Emergency Medical Services Act of 1973
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B) The white paper "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern
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C) The American Heart Association's Guidelines for Cardiac Resuscitation
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3) An Emergency Medical Responder comes to you and states that he would like to work for y
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ss our emergency ambulance service on a full-
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time basis. Knowing theFNational EMS Scope of Practice Model, you inform him of which ele
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ss ment?
A) He will be able to take care of only patients with non-life-threatening complaints
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B) He will first need approval from your ambulance service's medical director
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C) He will be able to work only with an Advanced EMT or paramedic
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D) HeFwill firstFhave to become an Emergency Medical Technician
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4) As defined by the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, the four levels of EMS
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B) EMS medical director
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5) An Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) approaches you andFstates that he is interested in
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ss becoming an EMT. Specifically, he asks what he will be able to do as an EMT that he cannot p
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ss resently do as an EMR. You respond by sayingFhe will be able to:
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B) Assist in emergency childbirth ss ss ss




C) Use an automated external defibrillator
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6) You have been dispatched for a 61-year-
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old female in cardiac arrest. Emergency Medical Responders (EMRs) are on scene. In your co
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ss mmunity, all EMS practitioners are trained according to the National EMS Scope of Practice M
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ss odel. Given this, which type of care do you expect the EMRs to be providing?
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7) An EMT with your service states that she desires to become a paramedic because she wants to
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ss provide advanced care. Under the National EMS Scope of Practice Model, which one of these ty
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ss pes of care will she be able to provide as a paramedic that she cannot provideFas an EMT?
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