OEC WRITTEN EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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OEC WRITTEN EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS UPDATED
(2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Which of the following statements about OEC 5th Edition is false?
a. It contains the most recent information about prehospital care at the
time of its
publication.
b. It is a resource text for the NSP OEC course.
c. It is to be used by instructors to teach students the basic concepts of care.
d. It supersedes local medical direction and management directives. - ANS
✓d
In order to become an "on the hill" Alpine patroller, you need to do all of
the following
except:
a. Complete the OEC course.
b. Successfully complete a written exam and a practical exam.
c. Demonstrate a level of skiing/boarding and toboggan handling
proficiency.
d. Successfully complete a three-month candidacy program at your
mountain. - ANS ✓d
In order to maintain OEC certification, you must:
a. Complete a refresher course that covers one-third of the curriculum
every year.
b. Complete a refresher course that covers the key objectives of the entire
curriculum every
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year.
c. Complete a refresher course that covers the key objectives of the entire
curriculum every
three years.
d. Demonstrate CPR and AED skills every two years. - ANS ✓a
Good Samaritan laws generally:
a. Protect a ski patroller from being sued in every circumstance.
b. Apply to people who do not receive compensation for helping people.
c. Are the same in every state.
d. Provide enough protection so that you need not to know whether your
mountain has
insurance. - ANS ✓b
The failure to exercise the care that is not up to the technician's standard of
training is called:
a. Negligence
b. Assault
c. Gross negligence
d. Standard of care breach - ANS ✓a
While you are alone and caring for an injured skier in the aid room, a fellow
patroller calls
and tells you that your own young child was just injured in the terrain park.
Concerned for your
child, you leave the patient's care unfinished and run to the terrain park.
Your action could be
viewed as:
a. A breach of ethics
b. Your duty to act
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c. Denial of care
d. Abandonment - ANS ✓d
You arrive at the scene of an accident where a 22-year-old female skier has
hit a tree and has
a large bleeding cut on her head. When you ask her if she needs help, she
refuses care and says
she just needs to sit for a while. Noticing the amount of bleeding, you calmly
express your
concern for her, but she continues to say she doesn't want help. You
hesitate to touch her
because you are concerned that if you do, she could accuse you of:
a. Assault
b. Battery
c. Breach of duty
d. Duty to act - ANS ✓b
You have just finished your shift, and while driving home still wearing your
patrol jacket you
come upon a car collision in which people appear to be injured. You
recognize that if you
approach the collision wearing your patrol jacket, members of the public
may have a reasonable
expectation that you will provide care. This expectation is known as:
a. The absence of negligence
b. Professional ethics
c. Moral obligation
d. the doctrine of public reliance - ANS ✓d.
While in the aid room treating a patient with a fractured wrist, the patient
tells you that he
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was skiing on a slope that was too difficult for him, and that he started
going too fast and got out
of control. You recognize that this information must be documented on the
accident report
because it provides evidence of:
a. Gross negligence.
b. Assumption of risk.
c. Contributory negligence.
d. Willful negligence. - ANS ✓c
Which of the following statements concerning "standard of training" is
true?
a. Acting within the "standard of training" is fundamental to reducing an
OEC Technician's
legal risk.
b. "Standard of training" is the same thing as "standard of care."
c. "Standard of training" includes the mountain area's protocols.
d. "Standard of training" includes your state's laws and procedures. - ANS
✓a
Which of the following is not considered a form of patient consent?
a. Informed consent
b. Minor consent
c. Implied consent
d. Absolute consent - ANS ✓d
Upon finding an unconscious patient at the scene of a bad accident, your
next step should be
to:
a. Assume "implied consent" and begin to examine and treat the patient.
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