MPDS EXAM PREP 2026|2027 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
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Define the 3 Acuity - Correct answer -Acuity 1 - within 30 min 2A
Acuity 2 - within 60 2B
Acuity 3 - greater than 60 R3
URGENT- Emergency response - 1C
Difference between 1B or 1C - Correct answer -1B - highest clinical level available
1C - any vehicle in the vicinity
All command list in A4 - Correct answer -PHELP
Questions to ask in F9 and record in comments and notes - Correct answer -Infection (/NI - MRSA - VRE)
Also Why, how, are they, what, who else
What gives an R3 responses? - Correct answer -Hospital to hospital
Psychiatric
Person Ill (protocol 33)
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,Strategies for managing difficult callers - Correct answer -Maintain professionalism, advise you need this
info, explain the process, acknowledge their fear or anxiety, if their behaviour is uncontrollable tell them
that their behaviour is unacceptable, escalate to supervisor
What are codes /STR and /NI mean? - Correct answer -Stretcher and non infectious
Shortcut for a walking patient and what does it decode to? - Correct answer -/AMB - patient is ambulant
How do you identify a scene safety question? - Correct answer -Written in red
What do grey block ranges in Geo- Locator signify? - Correct answer -Vanity addresses - Street name
and numbering a correct for a bordering suburb
What icon in ProQA use to fin a specific PAI - Correct answer -Target
What nature problem do you select for a patient from a minor hospital to a major ED within 1hr for CVA? -
Correct answer -0 Hosp to Hosp (R3 response)
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, What priority for a PT being sent home from the hospital ED, back to nursing home? 0 STR after treatment
(R6) - Correct answer -
If an address does not appear in Geo Locate after using the search function, what is the sequence of
steps? - Correct answer -Bloc range, soundex, no match
List some of the conditions that would lead to ventilations first CPR - Correct answer -Allergic reaction,
asthma, drowning, hanging, lightning strikes, OD/poisoning, severe Trauma, strangulation, toxic inhalation
Give an example of ineffective breathing - Correct answer -Barely breathing, can't breathe, fighting for
air, gasping for air, just a little bit, making funny noises, not breathing, turning blue or purple
If a person rings for pain in shoulder/neck, which protocol do you go to? - Correct answer -10 (chest
pain)
What is the difference between the domestic and specialised water rescue? - Correct answer -Domestic
(pool etc
Specialised (river, ocean, dam)
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|LATEST UPDATE
Define the 3 Acuity - Correct answer -Acuity 1 - within 30 min 2A
Acuity 2 - within 60 2B
Acuity 3 - greater than 60 R3
URGENT- Emergency response - 1C
Difference between 1B or 1C - Correct answer -1B - highest clinical level available
1C - any vehicle in the vicinity
All command list in A4 - Correct answer -PHELP
Questions to ask in F9 and record in comments and notes - Correct answer -Infection (/NI - MRSA - VRE)
Also Why, how, are they, what, who else
What gives an R3 responses? - Correct answer -Hospital to hospital
Psychiatric
Person Ill (protocol 33)
1|Page
,Strategies for managing difficult callers - Correct answer -Maintain professionalism, advise you need this
info, explain the process, acknowledge their fear or anxiety, if their behaviour is uncontrollable tell them
that their behaviour is unacceptable, escalate to supervisor
What are codes /STR and /NI mean? - Correct answer -Stretcher and non infectious
Shortcut for a walking patient and what does it decode to? - Correct answer -/AMB - patient is ambulant
How do you identify a scene safety question? - Correct answer -Written in red
What do grey block ranges in Geo- Locator signify? - Correct answer -Vanity addresses - Street name
and numbering a correct for a bordering suburb
What icon in ProQA use to fin a specific PAI - Correct answer -Target
What nature problem do you select for a patient from a minor hospital to a major ED within 1hr for CVA? -
Correct answer -0 Hosp to Hosp (R3 response)
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, What priority for a PT being sent home from the hospital ED, back to nursing home? 0 STR after treatment
(R6) - Correct answer -
If an address does not appear in Geo Locate after using the search function, what is the sequence of
steps? - Correct answer -Bloc range, soundex, no match
List some of the conditions that would lead to ventilations first CPR - Correct answer -Allergic reaction,
asthma, drowning, hanging, lightning strikes, OD/poisoning, severe Trauma, strangulation, toxic inhalation
Give an example of ineffective breathing - Correct answer -Barely breathing, can't breathe, fighting for
air, gasping for air, just a little bit, making funny noises, not breathing, turning blue or purple
If a person rings for pain in shoulder/neck, which protocol do you go to? - Correct answer -10 (chest
pain)
What is the difference between the domestic and specialised water rescue? - Correct answer -Domestic
(pool etc
Specialised (river, ocean, dam)
3|Page
