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EMT FISDAP READINESS EXAM 2
- 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 - 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 - 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
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- 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 - 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 - 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 - Your record of a patient’s refusal of medical care (aid) or transport should
include all of the following EXCEPT:
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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
- Forcing a competent adult patient to go to the hospital agains his or her willmay result in charges against the EMT.
a. abandonment
b. assault and battery
c. implied consent
d. negligence: B - 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: C. In all cases of
refusal you should advise patients to call EMS back at any time if there is a problemor they wish to be transported. - Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
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d. advanced directive: D
- 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.
The other options are part of a living will and not a DNR order. DNR orders generallydo not specify procedures that are improper such as specifying that only five minutesof artificial respiration will be attempted. - 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. Once a patient is considered terminal, routineinoculations will not be needed. Infection control by the healthcare providers is a