EMT FISDAP Readiness Exam 2
verified questions and answers 2025
1. 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. scope of practice
2. 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: b. different from state to state
3. 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. ethical responsibility
4. 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: c. applied
5. 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: a. expressed consent
6. 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. implied
, EMT FISDAP Readiness Exam 2
verified questions and answers 2025
7. 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: c. signing of the form
by the medical director
8. 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: b. assault and battery
9. 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: b. recommend that a relative
call the family physician to report the incident 10. Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive: d. advanced directive
11. 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: a. allowing CPR
only if cardiac or respiratory arrest was observed
12. 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. the use of a respirator
verified questions and answers 2025
1. 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. scope of practice
2. 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: b. different from state to state
3. 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. ethical responsibility
4. 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: c. applied
5. 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: a. expressed consent
6. 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. implied
, EMT FISDAP Readiness Exam 2
verified questions and answers 2025
7. 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: c. signing of the form
by the medical director
8. 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: b. assault and battery
9. 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: b. recommend that a relative
call the family physician to report the incident 10. Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive: d. advanced directive
11. 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: a. allowing CPR
only if cardiac or respiratory arrest was observed
12. 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. the use of a respirator
