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EXAM 2 Questions and
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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 - ANS 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 T ransportation - ANS 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 - ANS C
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 - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS C
Your record of a patient's refusal of medical care (aid) or transport should include
all of the following EXCEPT :
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 - ANS C
Forcing a competent adult patient to go to the hospital agains his or her will may
result in _______ charges against the EMT .
a. abandonment
b. assault and battery
c. implied consent
d. negligence - ANS 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 - ANS C. In all cases of
refusal you should advise patients to call EMS back at any time if there is a
problem or 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
d. advanced directive - ANS 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 - ANS A.
The other options are part of a living will and not a DNR order . DNR orders
generally do not specify procedures that are improper such as specifying that
only five minutes of artificial respiration will be attempted.
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