EMT FISDAP Readiness Exam 2
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The collective set of regulations and eth-
ical considerations governing the EMT is
called:
b. scope of practice
a. duty to act
b. scope of practice
c. advanced directives
d. good samaritan laws
Legislation that governs the skills and
medical interventions that may be per-
formed by the EMT is:
a. standardized (uniform) throughout the
b. different from state to state
country
b. different from state to state
c. standardized for regions within a state
d. governed by the US Department of
Transportation
When the EMT makes the physical/emo-
tional needs of the patient a priority, this
is considered a(n)_______ of the EMT.
c. ethical responsibility
a. advanced directive
b. protocol
c. ethical responsibility
d. legal responsibility
Which one of the following is NOT a type
of consent required for any treatment or
action by an EMT?
c. applied
a. child and mentally incompetent adult
b. implied
c. applied
d. expressed
When you informed the adult patient of
the procedures were about to perform
and its associated risks, you are asking
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for his or her:
a. expressed consent
b. negligence a. expressed consent
c. implied
d. applied
You are treating a patient that was found
unconscious at the bottom of the stair-
well. Consent that is based on the as-
sumption that an unconscious patient
would approve the EMT's life-saving in-
terventions is called: c. implied
a. expressed
b. negligence
c. implied
d. applied
Your record of a patient's refusal of med-
ical care (aid) or transport should include
all of the following EXCEPT:
a. informing the patient of the risks and
c. signing of the form by the medical di-
consequences of refusal
rector
b. documenting the steps you took
c. signing of the form by the medical di-
rector
d. obtaining a release form with the pa-
tient's witnessed signature
Forcing a competent adult patient to go
to the hospital agains his or her will may
result in _______ charges against the
EMT.
b. assault and battery
a. abandonment
b. assault and battery
c. implied consent
d. negligence
Which of the following is an action you
should not take if a patient refuses care?
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a. leave phone stickers with emergency
numbers
b. recommend that a relative call the fam-
b. recommend that a relative call the fam-
ily physician to report the incident
ily 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
Another name for a DNR order is:
a. deviated nervous response
d. advanced directive
b. duty not to react
c. refusal of treatment
d. advanced directive
There are varying degrees of DNR or-
ders, expressed through a variety of de-
tailed instructions that may be part of the
order such as:
a. allowing CPR only if cardiac or respi-
a. allowing CPR only if cardiac or respi-
ratory arrest was observed
ratory 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 artifi-
cial 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
b. the use of a respirator
c. infection control by the healthcare
providers
d. hourly patient documentation
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If an EMT with a duty to act fails to pro-
vide the standard of care, and if this fail-
ure causes harm or injury to the patient,
the EMT may be accused of:
b. negligence
a. res ipsa loquitur
b. negligence
c. abandonment
d. assault
Leaving a patient on the hallway stretch-
er in a busy ED and leaving without giv-
ing report with a healthcare professional
is an example of:
c. abandonment
a. liability infraction
b. battery
c. abandonment
d. breach of duty
The EMT should not discuss information
about the patient except to relate perti-
nent information to the physician at the
ED. Information considered confidential
includes:
d. all of the above
a. patient history gained through the in-
terview
b. assessment findings
c. treatment rendered
d. all of the above
The EMT can release confidential pa-
tient information in all of the following
circumstances EXCEPT to:
a. inform other health care professionals d. protect the other victims of a motor
who need to know information to contin- vehicle collision
ue care
b. report incidents required by state law,
such as rape or abuse
c. comply with the legal subpoena
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