The collective set of regulations and ethical considerations governing the EMT is called:
A. Duty of act
B. Scope of practice
C. Advance directives
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D. Good Samaritan law -answer- B
Legislation that governs the skills and medical interventions that may be performed by an EMT is:
A. Standardized (uniform) throughout the country
B. Different from state to state
C. Standardized (uniform) for regions within a state
D. Governed by the US Department of Transportation -answer- B
When the EMT-B makes the physical/emotional needs of the patient a priority, this is considered a ____ of the EMT.
A. Advance directive
B. Protocol
C. Ethical Responsibility
D. Legal Responsibility -answer- 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 -answer- C
When you inform the adult patient of a procedure you are about to perform and its associated risks, you are asking for her or his:
A. Expressed consent
B. Negligence
C. Implied consent
D. Applied consent -answer- A
You are treating a patient who was found unconscious at the bottom of a 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 -answer- C
Your record of a patients 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 -answer- C
Forcing a competent adult patient to go to the hospital against his or her will may result in ____ charges against the EMT.
A. Abandonment
B. Assault and battery
C. Implied consent
D. Negligence -answer- B
Which one 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 daily 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 -answer- C
Another name for DNR is:
A. Deviated nervous response
B. Duty not to react
C. Refusal of treatment
D. Advance directive -answer- 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. Specifying that only 5 minutes of artificial respiration will be attempted -answer- A
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 health care providers
D. Hourly patient documentation -answer- B
If an EMT with a duty to act fails to provide the standard of care, and if this failure causes harm or injury to the patient, the EMT may be accused of:
A. Res ipsa loquitur
B. Negligence
C. Abandonment
D. Assault -answer- B
Leaving a patient in the hallway stretcher in a busy ED and leaving without giving a report to a health care professional is an example of:
A. Liability infraction
B. Battery
C. Abandonment
D. Breach of duty -answer- C [Show Less]