OEC UPDATED PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔The failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person with similar
training would exercise in a similar circumstance is known as:
a. negligence.
b. assault.
c. gross negligence.
d. standard of care breach. - ✔✔a
✔✔You have just finished your shift, and while driving home still wearing your patrol
jacket you come upon a car collision in which people appear to be injured. You
recognize that if you approach the collision wearing your patrol jacket, members of the
public may have a reasonable expectation that you will provide care. This expectation is
known as:
a. the absence of negligence.
b. professional ethics.
c. moral obligation.
d. the doctrine of public reliance. - ✔✔d
✔✔While you are alone and caring for an injured skier in the aid room, a fellow patroller
calls and tells you that your own young child was just injured in the terrain park.
Concerned for your child, you leave the patient's care unfinished and run to the terrain
park. Your action could be viewed as:
a. a breach of ethics.
b. your duty to act.
c. denial of care.
d. abandonment. - ✔✔d
✔✔You arrive at the scene of an accident where a 22-year-old female skier has hit a
tree and has a large bleeding cut on her head. When you ask her if she needs help, she
refuses care and says she just needs to sit for a while. Noticing the amount of bleeding,
you calmly express your concern for her, but she continues to say she doesn't want
,help. You hesitate to touch her because you are concerned that if you do, she could
accuse you of:
a. assault.
b. battery.
c. breach of duty.
d. duty to act. - ✔✔b
✔✔While in the aid room treating a patient with a fractured wrist, the patient tells you
that he was skiing on a slope that was too difficult for him, and that he started going too
fast and got out of control. You recognize that this information must be documented on
the accident report because it provides evidence of:
a. gross negligence.
b. assumption of risk.
c. contributory negligence.
d. willful negligence. - ✔✔c
✔✔Although not required in OEC 5th Edition, your local mountain protocol states that
any time you use a backboard you should always treat the patient as having a
neck/back injury and apply a cervical collar. You recognize that this mountain-specific
requirement is called a:
a. standard of training.
b. standard of care.
c. medical standard.
d. duty to act. - ✔✔b
✔✔Which of the following statements concerning "standard of training" is true?
a. Acting within the "standard of training" is fundamental to reducing an OEC
Technician's legal risk.
b. "Standard of training" is the same thing as "standard of care."
c. "Standard of training" includes the mountain area's protocols.
,d. "Standard of training" includes your state's laws and procedures. - ✔✔a
✔✔Which of the following is not considered a form of patient consent?
a. Informed consent
b. Minor consent
c. Implied consent
d. Absolute consent - ✔✔d
✔✔You are skiing down your favorite slope and notice a small group gathered around a
middle-aged man sitting on the ground. You note that the boarder is holding his wrist
and appears in pain. He agrees to have you examine him but then refuses any more
help. You explain the possible consequences of not splinting the wrist and of the
boarder trying to get down the mountain without help. This explanation of the risk of
refusing care is provided in order to:
a. demonstrate that you know how to treat a wrist injury.
b. diminish your risk of being accused of abandonment.
c. reduce your risk of an accusation of battery.
d. help the patient understand why you are about to put the splint on anyway. - ✔✔b
✔✔When you approach an injured skier and ask, "May I help you?" and she replies
"Yes," you interpret this "expressed consent" to mean that:
a. you can examine and treat the patient.
b. you can examine, treat, and transport the patient.
c. you can only examine the patient.
d. you can only ask the patient to provide a history. - ✔✔d
✔✔Upon finding an unconscious patient at the scene of a bad accident, your next step
should be to:
a. assume "implied consent" and begin to examine and treat the patient.
b. delay your examination and ask other patrollers to respond as witnesses.
, c. delay your examination until you can locate a spouse or a friend of the patient.
d. begin your assessment but not provide any treatment until another patroller arrives. -
✔✔a
✔✔It is a busy Friday night in the aid room when a child arrives complaining of
abdominal pain. The child states that her parents dropped her off and that they are at
the movies. You are concerned because the child is a minor with no adult to give
consent for treatment. You would:
a. recognize that you need the parents' consent and try to reach them by phone.
b. recognize that the child needs to be assessed and that there is implied consent to
treat.
c. recognize that you must have some adult's permission and try to locate an aunt or an
uncle.
d. do as much of an assessment as possible without touching the child to determine if a
life-threatening emergency exists. - ✔✔b
✔✔The type of consent that is based on an appreciation and understanding of the facts,
implications, and possible future consequences of an action is known as:
a. implied consent.
b. educated consent.
c. expressed consent.
d. informed consent. - ✔✔d
✔✔Which of the following descriptions is the best example of expressed consent?
a. A 37-year-old man who is found unresponsive
b. A 52-year-old skier who comes to the aid room and asks for help
c. A 19-year-old male who appears to be intoxicated and lets you examine him
d. A man who asks you to help his unresponsive 29-year-old diabetic wife - ✔✔b
✔✔What type of consent would apply for an unresponsive 28-year-old male victim of a
motorcycle collision?
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔The failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person with similar
training would exercise in a similar circumstance is known as:
a. negligence.
b. assault.
c. gross negligence.
d. standard of care breach. - ✔✔a
✔✔You have just finished your shift, and while driving home still wearing your patrol
jacket you come upon a car collision in which people appear to be injured. You
recognize that if you approach the collision wearing your patrol jacket, members of the
public may have a reasonable expectation that you will provide care. This expectation is
known as:
a. the absence of negligence.
b. professional ethics.
c. moral obligation.
d. the doctrine of public reliance. - ✔✔d
✔✔While you are alone and caring for an injured skier in the aid room, a fellow patroller
calls and tells you that your own young child was just injured in the terrain park.
Concerned for your child, you leave the patient's care unfinished and run to the terrain
park. Your action could be viewed as:
a. a breach of ethics.
b. your duty to act.
c. denial of care.
d. abandonment. - ✔✔d
✔✔You arrive at the scene of an accident where a 22-year-old female skier has hit a
tree and has a large bleeding cut on her head. When you ask her if she needs help, she
refuses care and says she just needs to sit for a while. Noticing the amount of bleeding,
you calmly express your concern for her, but she continues to say she doesn't want
,help. You hesitate to touch her because you are concerned that if you do, she could
accuse you of:
a. assault.
b. battery.
c. breach of duty.
d. duty to act. - ✔✔b
✔✔While in the aid room treating a patient with a fractured wrist, the patient tells you
that he was skiing on a slope that was too difficult for him, and that he started going too
fast and got out of control. You recognize that this information must be documented on
the accident report because it provides evidence of:
a. gross negligence.
b. assumption of risk.
c. contributory negligence.
d. willful negligence. - ✔✔c
✔✔Although not required in OEC 5th Edition, your local mountain protocol states that
any time you use a backboard you should always treat the patient as having a
neck/back injury and apply a cervical collar. You recognize that this mountain-specific
requirement is called a:
a. standard of training.
b. standard of care.
c. medical standard.
d. duty to act. - ✔✔b
✔✔Which of the following statements concerning "standard of training" is true?
a. Acting within the "standard of training" is fundamental to reducing an OEC
Technician's legal risk.
b. "Standard of training" is the same thing as "standard of care."
c. "Standard of training" includes the mountain area's protocols.
,d. "Standard of training" includes your state's laws and procedures. - ✔✔a
✔✔Which of the following is not considered a form of patient consent?
a. Informed consent
b. Minor consent
c. Implied consent
d. Absolute consent - ✔✔d
✔✔You are skiing down your favorite slope and notice a small group gathered around a
middle-aged man sitting on the ground. You note that the boarder is holding his wrist
and appears in pain. He agrees to have you examine him but then refuses any more
help. You explain the possible consequences of not splinting the wrist and of the
boarder trying to get down the mountain without help. This explanation of the risk of
refusing care is provided in order to:
a. demonstrate that you know how to treat a wrist injury.
b. diminish your risk of being accused of abandonment.
c. reduce your risk of an accusation of battery.
d. help the patient understand why you are about to put the splint on anyway. - ✔✔b
✔✔When you approach an injured skier and ask, "May I help you?" and she replies
"Yes," you interpret this "expressed consent" to mean that:
a. you can examine and treat the patient.
b. you can examine, treat, and transport the patient.
c. you can only examine the patient.
d. you can only ask the patient to provide a history. - ✔✔d
✔✔Upon finding an unconscious patient at the scene of a bad accident, your next step
should be to:
a. assume "implied consent" and begin to examine and treat the patient.
b. delay your examination and ask other patrollers to respond as witnesses.
, c. delay your examination until you can locate a spouse or a friend of the patient.
d. begin your assessment but not provide any treatment until another patroller arrives. -
✔✔a
✔✔It is a busy Friday night in the aid room when a child arrives complaining of
abdominal pain. The child states that her parents dropped her off and that they are at
the movies. You are concerned because the child is a minor with no adult to give
consent for treatment. You would:
a. recognize that you need the parents' consent and try to reach them by phone.
b. recognize that the child needs to be assessed and that there is implied consent to
treat.
c. recognize that you must have some adult's permission and try to locate an aunt or an
uncle.
d. do as much of an assessment as possible without touching the child to determine if a
life-threatening emergency exists. - ✔✔b
✔✔The type of consent that is based on an appreciation and understanding of the facts,
implications, and possible future consequences of an action is known as:
a. implied consent.
b. educated consent.
c. expressed consent.
d. informed consent. - ✔✔d
✔✔Which of the following descriptions is the best example of expressed consent?
a. A 37-year-old man who is found unresponsive
b. A 52-year-old skier who comes to the aid room and asks for help
c. A 19-year-old male who appears to be intoxicated and lets you examine him
d. A man who asks you to help his unresponsive 29-year-old diabetic wife - ✔✔b
✔✔What type of consent would apply for an unresponsive 28-year-old male victim of a
motorcycle collision?
