EMT: EXAM 2 STUDY QUESTIONS
B- ✅✅ -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
C- ✅✅ -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
A- ✅✅ -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
C- ✅✅ -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
B- ✅✅ -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
✅✅
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. - -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
D- ✅✅ -Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive
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. - -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
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. - -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- ✅✅ -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
C- ✅✅ -Leaving a patient on the hallway stretcher in a busy ED and leaving without
giving report with a healthcare professional is an example of:
a. liability infraction
b. battery
c. abandonment
d. breach of duty
D- ✅✅ -The EMT should not discuss information about the patient except to relate
pertinent information to the physician at the ED. Information considered confidential
includes:
a. patient history gained through the interview
b. assessment findings
c. treatment rendered
d. all of the above
D- ✅✅ -The EMT can release confidential patient information in all of the following
circumstances EXCEPT to:
a. inform other health care professionals who need to know information to continue care
b. report incidents required by state law, such as rape or abuse
c. comply with the legal subpoena
, d. protect the other victims of a motor vehicle collision
D- ✅✅ -A medical identification device that indicates serious patient medical
conditions, allergies, and/or medications they are currently prescribed comes in the form
of each of the following except:
a. bracelets
b. necklaces
c. cards
d. patches
B- ✅✅ -You responded to a high-speed collision involving a motorcycle and
automobile. The 22-year-old male cyclist has a severe head injury and is not likely to
live through the evening. When treating this critical patient, who happens to have an
organ donor card, the EMT should:
a. transport without delay and document a DNR
b. treat the patient with the same care as any other patient and inform the ED physician
c. withhold oxygen therapy from the patient to keep the organ hypoxic
d. all of the above
A- ✅✅ -You are at the scene of a home invasion where the homeowner was shot to
death by the perpetrators. At this crime scene, you should:
a. avoid disturbing any evidence at the scene unless emergency care requires it
b. immediately remove the patient from the scene
c. move all obstacles from around the patient to make more room to work
d. search the house for clues to find the cause of the crime
B- ✅✅ -Commonly required reporting situations include all the following EXCEPT:
a. child and elder abuse
b. crimes in public places
c. sexual assault
d. domestic abuse
C- ✅✅ -The extent of limits of the EMT's job is called the:
a. ethical dilemma
b. national curriculum
c. scope of practice
d. regional protocol
B- ✅✅ -You were called to the scene of an incident where a 21-year-old male was
knocked unconscious in a bar fight. Upon arrival, the patient is awake and has a broken
B- ✅✅ -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
C- ✅✅ -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
A- ✅✅ -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
C- ✅✅ -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
B- ✅✅ -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
✅✅
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. - -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
D- ✅✅ -Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive
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. - -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
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. - -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- ✅✅ -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
C- ✅✅ -Leaving a patient on the hallway stretcher in a busy ED and leaving without
giving report with a healthcare professional is an example of:
a. liability infraction
b. battery
c. abandonment
d. breach of duty
D- ✅✅ -The EMT should not discuss information about the patient except to relate
pertinent information to the physician at the ED. Information considered confidential
includes:
a. patient history gained through the interview
b. assessment findings
c. treatment rendered
d. all of the above
D- ✅✅ -The EMT can release confidential patient information in all of the following
circumstances EXCEPT to:
a. inform other health care professionals who need to know information to continue care
b. report incidents required by state law, such as rape or abuse
c. comply with the legal subpoena
, d. protect the other victims of a motor vehicle collision
D- ✅✅ -A medical identification device that indicates serious patient medical
conditions, allergies, and/or medications they are currently prescribed comes in the form
of each of the following except:
a. bracelets
b. necklaces
c. cards
d. patches
B- ✅✅ -You responded to a high-speed collision involving a motorcycle and
automobile. The 22-year-old male cyclist has a severe head injury and is not likely to
live through the evening. When treating this critical patient, who happens to have an
organ donor card, the EMT should:
a. transport without delay and document a DNR
b. treat the patient with the same care as any other patient and inform the ED physician
c. withhold oxygen therapy from the patient to keep the organ hypoxic
d. all of the above
A- ✅✅ -You are at the scene of a home invasion where the homeowner was shot to
death by the perpetrators. At this crime scene, you should:
a. avoid disturbing any evidence at the scene unless emergency care requires it
b. immediately remove the patient from the scene
c. move all obstacles from around the patient to make more room to work
d. search the house for clues to find the cause of the crime
B- ✅✅ -Commonly required reporting situations include all the following EXCEPT:
a. child and elder abuse
b. crimes in public places
c. sexual assault
d. domestic abuse
C- ✅✅ -The extent of limits of the EMT's job is called the:
a. ethical dilemma
b. national curriculum
c. scope of practice
d. regional protocol
B- ✅✅ -You were called to the scene of an incident where a 21-year-old male was
knocked unconscious in a bar fight. Upon arrival, the patient is awake and has a broken
