RQI 2025 BLS Healthcare Provider
After 4 minutes of rescue breathing, no pulse is present during a pulse check. What
immediate actions should be taken?
o Turn on the AED while your colleague attaches the pads to the patient's chest
o Continue providing rescue breaths and turn on the AED
o Immediately being CPR while your colleague counts compressions out loud
o Immediately being CPR and turn on the AED - ANS - o Immediately being CPR and
turn on the AED
After check for breathing and a pulse, you find that the patient is not breathing normally
but has a pulse and needs rescue breathing. What is the correct ventilation rate?
o 2 breaths every 3-5 seconds, or about 24-40 breaths per minute
o 2 breaths every 6 seconds, or about 20 breaths per minute
o 1 breath every 3-5 seconds, or about 12-20 breaths per minute
o 1 breath every 6 seconds, or about 10 breaths per minute - ANS - o 1 breath every
6 seconds, or about 10 breaths per minute
As Team Leader, you notice that your Compressor is pushing too fast. It is important to
correct actions that are incorrect, but it is also important to be tactful when delivering
this correction to a colleague. This is an example of what element of team dynamics?
o Knowing your limitations
o Debriefing
o Constructive intervention
o Closed-loop communication - ANS - o Constructive intervention
As you are providing CPR, your colleague arrives, turns on the AED, and follows the
prompts. The AED analyses the rhythm and does not advise a shock. After you
immediately resume CPR, how do you continue treating the patient?
o Continue CPR until you are fatigued, the code team arrives, or the patient starts to
move
o Continue CPR for 2 minutes, and then deliver rescue breathing until the code team
arrives or the patient starts to move
o Continue CPR until promoted by the AED to allow a rhythm check, the code team
arrives or the patient starts to move
After 4 minutes of rescue breathing, no pulse is present during a pulse check. What
immediate actions should be taken?
o Turn on the AED while your colleague attaches the pads to the patient's chest
o Continue providing rescue breaths and turn on the AED
o Immediately being CPR while your colleague counts compressions out loud
o Immediately being CPR and turn on the AED - ANS - o Immediately being CPR and
turn on the AED
After check for breathing and a pulse, you find that the patient is not breathing normally
but has a pulse and needs rescue breathing. What is the correct ventilation rate?
o 2 breaths every 3-5 seconds, or about 24-40 breaths per minute
o 2 breaths every 6 seconds, or about 20 breaths per minute
o 1 breath every 3-5 seconds, or about 12-20 breaths per minute
o 1 breath every 6 seconds, or about 10 breaths per minute - ANS - o 1 breath every
6 seconds, or about 10 breaths per minute
As Team Leader, you notice that your Compressor is pushing too fast. It is important to
correct actions that are incorrect, but it is also important to be tactful when delivering
this correction to a colleague. This is an example of what element of team dynamics?
o Knowing your limitations
o Debriefing
o Constructive intervention
o Closed-loop communication - ANS - o Constructive intervention
As you are providing CPR, your colleague arrives, turns on the AED, and follows the
prompts. The AED analyses the rhythm and does not advise a shock. After you
immediately resume CPR, how do you continue treating the patient?
o Continue CPR until you are fatigued, the code team arrives, or the patient starts to
move
o Continue CPR for 2 minutes, and then deliver rescue breathing until the code team
arrives or the patient starts to move
o Continue CPR until promoted by the AED to allow a rhythm check, the code team
arrives or the patient starts to move
