Chapter 1

Question 1

A process in which a person, an institution, or a program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide ethical care.

A) Licensure
B) Certification
C) Qualification
D) Authorization

Answer 1

B) Certification

Question 2

An individual who has training in specific aspects of advanced life support, such as intravenous therapy, and the administration of certain emergency medications.

A) EMR
B) AEMT
C) Paramedic
D) EMT

Answer 2

B) AEMT

Question 3

A Health care model in which experienced paramedics receive advanced training to equip them to provide additional services in the prehospital environment, such as health evaluations, monitoring of chronic illness or conditions, and patient advocacy.

Answer 3

Community paramedicine

Question 4

A system of internal and external reviews and audits of aspects of an EMS system aiming at improving outcomes.

A) Quality Control
B) Continuous quality improvement
C) Accountability
D) Standard of care

Answer 4

B) Continuous quality improvement (CQI)

Question 5

An established process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed to practice a particular profession, or to function as an organization.

A) certification
B) credentialing
C) documentation
D) licensing

Answer 5

B) Credentialing

Question 6

A system that assists dispatches in selecting appropriate units to respond to a particular call for assistance and provides callers with vital instructions until the arrival of EMS crews.

Answer 6

EMD

Question 7

An approach to medicine where decisions are based on well conducted research, classifying recommendations based on the strength of the scientific evidence; also called science based medicine.

Answer 7

EBM Evidence based medicine

Question 8

The delivery of medication directly into a vein

Answer 8

Intravenous therapy (IV)

Question 9

The process whereby a component authority, usually the state, allows people to perform a regulated act.

A) Credentials
B) Authorization
C) Licensure
D) Qualification

Answer 9

C) Licensure

Question 10

Physician instructions given directly by radio or cell phone (online/direct) or indirectly by protocol/guidlines (off-line/indirect), as authorized by the medical director of the service program.

A) Medical director
B) Medical personnel
C) Medical Authorization
D) Medical Control

Answer 10

D) Medical Control

Question 11

The physician who authorizes or delegates to the EMT the authority to provide medical care in the field.

Answer 11

Medical Director

Question 12

A method of delivering health care that involves providing health care within the community rather than at a physician’s office or hospital

Answer 12

Mobile integrated health care (MIH)

Question 13

A document created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that outlines the skills performed by various EMS providers

Answer 13

National EMS scope of practice model

Question 14

An individual who has extensive training in advanced life support, including endotracheal intubation, emergency pharmacies-cology, cardiac monitoring and other advanced assessment and treatment skills.

Answer 14

Paramedic

Question 15

Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.

Answer 15

Primary Prevention

Question 16

The designated area in which EMS agency is responsible for the provision of prehospital emergency care and transportation to the hospital.

Answer 16

Primary Service Area

Question 17

The Branch of Medicine that is focused on examining the Health needs of entire populations with the goal of preventing Health Problems.

Answer 17

Public Health

Question 18

Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you can’t completely prevent.

Answer 18

Secondary Prevention

Question 19

If an EMT has been convicted of a Felony or a Misdemeanor they should?

Answer 19

Contact the State EMS office and provide its staff with the required documentation.

Question 20

According to the National EMS Scope of Practice, an EMT should be able to?

Answer 20

assist a patient with certain prescribed medications.

Question 21

EMT as we know it today had its origins in 1966 with the publications of?

Answer 21

Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society.

Question 22

If a defibrillator manufacturer claims that its device terminates ventricular fibrillation on the first shock 95% of the time, you should?

Answer 22

Recognize that this does not mean the device will save more lives.

Question 23

The determination that prompt surgical care in the hospital is more important than performing time-consuming procedures in the field on a major trauma patient is based mostly on?

Answer 23

EMS Research

Question 24

The standards for prehospital emergency care and the individual who provide it are typically regulated by the?

Answer 24

State office of EMS

Question 25

Which of the following descriptions most accurately portrays emergency medical services?

Answer 25

A team of health care professionals who are responsible for providing emergency care and transportation to the sick and injured.

Question 26

Which of the following criteria is required to become licensed and employed as an EMT?

Answer 26

Proof of immunizations

Question 27

KSA Failures

Answer 27

Knowledge, Skill, and Ability.