Emergency Response Questions and Answers
Which of the following is considered a secondary responsibility of an EMR?
A:Ensuring your safety and that of bystanders
B: Reassuring the patient's family or friends
C: Determining any life-threatening injuries or illnesses
D: Assissting more advanced medical personnel - ✅✅B: Reassuring the patient's family or friends
Which type of Emergency Medical System (EMS) provider has the most in-depth amount of training?
A: Emergency Medical Technicia (EMT)
B: Paramedic
C: Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)
D: Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) - ✅✅B: Paramedic
Malaria is a disease that is primarily transmitted by which of the following?
A: Contaminated food
B: Respiratory droplets
C: Contaminated blood
D: Vector-borne transmission - ✅✅D: Vector-borne transmission
After being involved in a critical incident, you are participating in defusing. Which of the following best
descibes this technique?
A: A short, structured meeting with a team commander
B: One-on-one interaction with a peer counselor
C: A formalized, controlled discussion among team members
D: A group discussion with a trained professional - ✅✅B: One-on-one interaction with a peer
counselor
While providing care, you sustain an accidental neeedle stick injury. After taking the necessary steps to
clean the area, you document the incident for which reason?
, A: To ensure communication with your employer
B: To identify the future potential hazards with the device
C: To prevent potential legal action at a later date
D: To ensure adequate follow-up to reduce the risk if disease transmission - ✅✅D: To ensure
adequate follow-up to reduce the risk if disease transmission
Which type of hepatitus is spread primarily through the ingestion of contaminated water?
A: Hepatitus A
B: Hepatitus B
C: Hepatitus C
D: Hepatitus D - ✅✅A: Hepatitus A
Which of the following is an example of infection transmission by droplet transmission?
A: Touching a soiled dressing of an infected patient
B: Touching an infected person's body fluids
C: Having infected blood slash into the eyes
D: Inhaling particles from an infected person's cough - ✅✅D: Inhaling particles from an infected
person's cough
As an EMR, you are expected to provide care based on specific criteria. This is called--
Good faith action
Duty to act
Standard of care
Scope of practice - ✅✅Standard of care
A patient is lying on her back with her upper body elevated to about 45-degree angle. The patient is in
which position?
Fowler's
Prone
Supine
Which of the following is considered a secondary responsibility of an EMR?
A:Ensuring your safety and that of bystanders
B: Reassuring the patient's family or friends
C: Determining any life-threatening injuries or illnesses
D: Assissting more advanced medical personnel - ✅✅B: Reassuring the patient's family or friends
Which type of Emergency Medical System (EMS) provider has the most in-depth amount of training?
A: Emergency Medical Technicia (EMT)
B: Paramedic
C: Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)
D: Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) - ✅✅B: Paramedic
Malaria is a disease that is primarily transmitted by which of the following?
A: Contaminated food
B: Respiratory droplets
C: Contaminated blood
D: Vector-borne transmission - ✅✅D: Vector-borne transmission
After being involved in a critical incident, you are participating in defusing. Which of the following best
descibes this technique?
A: A short, structured meeting with a team commander
B: One-on-one interaction with a peer counselor
C: A formalized, controlled discussion among team members
D: A group discussion with a trained professional - ✅✅B: One-on-one interaction with a peer
counselor
While providing care, you sustain an accidental neeedle stick injury. After taking the necessary steps to
clean the area, you document the incident for which reason?
, A: To ensure communication with your employer
B: To identify the future potential hazards with the device
C: To prevent potential legal action at a later date
D: To ensure adequate follow-up to reduce the risk if disease transmission - ✅✅D: To ensure
adequate follow-up to reduce the risk if disease transmission
Which type of hepatitus is spread primarily through the ingestion of contaminated water?
A: Hepatitus A
B: Hepatitus B
C: Hepatitus C
D: Hepatitus D - ✅✅A: Hepatitus A
Which of the following is an example of infection transmission by droplet transmission?
A: Touching a soiled dressing of an infected patient
B: Touching an infected person's body fluids
C: Having infected blood slash into the eyes
D: Inhaling particles from an infected person's cough - ✅✅D: Inhaling particles from an infected
person's cough
As an EMR, you are expected to provide care based on specific criteria. This is called--
Good faith action
Duty to act
Standard of care
Scope of practice - ✅✅Standard of care
A patient is lying on her back with her upper body elevated to about 45-degree angle. The patient is in
which position?
Fowler's
Prone
Supine
