A client has fallen and sustained a leg injury. Which question should the nurse ask the client to help determine if the injury caused a fracture?

Which among the following is the PRIMARY responsibility of an EMS Nurse at the scene of an accident?

Which among the following best defines the concept of medical direction?

You are dispatched to the scene of an unconscious patient. Upon arrival, you find an 85 year-old patient with bradycardia and slow shallow respirations. The patient has a terminal illness. The family presents you with a notarized DNR. As a pre-hospital provider, what actions would be appropriate?

A feeling of hopelessness, loss of appetite, and feeling of isolation are all signs of:

Major disasters affecting the families such as the death of a child may require a more organized response by the EMT Nurse to resolve negative feelings. This process is called a/an:

Which among the following best describes the term “standard of care”?

The following are ingredients of a negligence case EXCEPT:

If you leave one patient to respond to another without proper turnover, you may be guilty of which among the following?

What component of blood pressure is obtained using the palpation technique?

What is the best way for you to determine that the rescue breath you are delivering to a patient is effective?

Gastric distention during rescue breathing is a common complication of:

The jaw thrust without head extension is the primary airway maneuver used for:

You arrived at the scene of a bar fight. A 25 year old man has been stabbed in the chest and is bleeding severely. The assailant is still in the scene and holding a knife. What should you do?

During assessment of a responsive medical patient, you use the memory device SAMPLE to obtain information. What does the letter P stands for this memory aid?

A 20 year old patient was found unresponsive. One of the first steps during your focused history and physical exam should include:

You find a 16 year old boy, a baseball player, who is unresponsive with a deformed right leg. During the initial assessment, you find broken teeth in the mouth. You should:

One of the best ways to determine if your patient’s condition is changing is to:

Which among the following devices is best suited for moving a patient over rough terrain?

When a group of EMT-Bs is performing a log roll in a patient, the movement should be supervised by the EMT-B positioned at the patient’s:

Patients with dyspnea are generally more comfortable when they are in what position?

When reaching or stretching, the EMT Nurse should reach no more than:

When caring for a deaf person, you should:

While comforting for all patients, it is imperative to maintain physical contact with the:

Which among the following is NOT an essential component of the verbal report?

In a pre-hospital setting, a patient with confused mental status refused treatment. The refusal signature is of no value unless you:

The management of acute asthma attack is aimed at:

Which among the patients with chest pain should NOT be given nitroglycerin?

You are transporting 67 year old male to the hospital when he suddenly goes into cardiac arrest. Your ambulance is moving at 50 mph (80.4 kph). If you need to attach the AED, which among the following should be done?

A seizure patient becomes cyanotic. After convulsions have ended, what action should you take?

The seizure patient in a post-ictal state typically presents with:

Status epilepticus is defined as multiple seizures without return to consciousness for a period of:

Your patient is a 65 year old male with a chief complaint of headache that started suddenly. Your assessment reveals he is oriented with slurred speech, BP of 200/120 mmHg and warm, moist skin. You also noted some left sided weakness. Your patient is most likely experiencing a/an:

In a patient with a cerebral thrombus, the artery is:

Which among the following is a contraindication for giving oral glucose?

The function of insulin is to:

A man tells you that he can’t awaken his wife, who you find lying on the couch. He explains that she takes pills for diabetes. You find the patient to be unresponsive to painful stimulus. Your first action should be to:

You are giving oral glucose to a patient with diabetes when the patient suddenly has a seizure. What should you do for this patient?

What are the classic signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia?

A severe allergic reaction in which bronchial constriction, airway obstruction, and hypotension occur is referred to as:

A patient suffering from an allergic reaction may tell you their skin feels:

In an allergic reaction, exposure to an allergen will cause the blood vessels to:

Which of the following actions does epinephrine cause when given for an allergic reaction?

Which among the following is classified as a stimulant?

Drugs classified as opioids may cause:

Your first priority in responding to a drug or alcohol emergency is to:

Alcohol is classified as a/an:

Carbon monoxide, chlorine, and ammonia are examples of ______ poisons:

In tagging the body which is not part of the documentation:

Which of these is NOT a secondary identifying description:

When performing tagging and documentation, the body has a wrist watch and noticed that the arm was swelling:

Management of the bereaved families is the responsibility of the:

There is no significant public health risks associated with dead bodies to cause outbreaks from natural disasters. Victims are normally killed by injury, drowning or fire not by disease.

Dead bodies are hosts of disease agents present in endemic areas, however there should be presence of other risk factor to cause spread of infectious disease.

The surviving population is more likely to spread disease due to poor sanitation and unhygienic practices.

Burial of bodies in common graves or use of mass cremation shall be done in all circumstances to avoid spread of diseases.

The public health approach to the management of the dead EXCEPT:

The management of the bereaved actions are all of these except:

Mass fatality incident in natural disaster, identification shall be primarily done by:

In human generated activities, identification shall be primarily done by:

Visual recognition of cadavers or their photographs by acquaintances of the deceased is simplest form for identification but prone to errors:

In having temporary burials, which of these is not true:

It is a condition involving mass casualty and or major damages to property, disruption of means of livelihoods, roads and normal way of life of people in the affected areas as a result of the occurrence of natural or human-induced hazard.

The vice chair of disaster response:

Accreditation, mobilization and protection of Disaster Volunteers & National Service Reserve Corp, CSO’s and the Private Sector is in both PD 1566 and RA10121:

If the IRA is 100,000, how much will be allocated used to support disaster risk management activities such as, but not limited to, pre-disaster preparedness programs including training, purchasing life-saving rescue equipment, supplies and medicines, for post-disaster activities, and for the payment of premiums on calamity insurance:

How much shall be allocated as Quick Response Fund (QRF) or stand-by fund for relief and recovery programs:

The declaration and lifting of the state of calamity may also be issued by the _____, upon the recommendation of the LDRRMC, based on the results of the damage assessment and needs analysis.

The charge nurse in the ICU is notified of a bus accident with multiple injuries, and clients are being brought to the ER. The hospital is implementing the disaster policy. Which intervention should the nurse implement first?

Bring the future into the present; what can you do today to ensure success tomorrow?

Take responsibility for your life and decisions, and focus on what you can control

Begin with an END IN MIND mentality

You take ownership of your performance and hold yourself accountable

“Work on the things we can do something about.”

It is the periodic collection of information to assess progress in changing the practices and well being of target populations

It is designed to evaluate policies, roles and responsibilities, capabilities and procedures, of single or multiple emergency management functions or agencies

It is full-scale exercises are seldom used to evaluate a specific emergency response program by itself, but rather as a component of a total response system.

The Health Information Pathway

It is an end product of data management processes that involves data collection, processing, analysis and dissemination.

When information becomes integrated with information and evaluated in terms of the issues confronting the health system, it becomes a:

When it is synthesized, formatted in a form that changes their understanding of health issues and needs, it becomes:

Facts extracted from a set of data (interpreted data); meaningful and useful, it becomes:

It is the identifying the information needs data collection, processing information, decision making, dissemination and sharing of information, and monitoring

It is needed to enhance the capacity of a community to manage its risks through risk awareness, prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.

It is needed by disaster workers, managers and authorities to enable optimal actions and decisions

It is a continuous process that produces data and information.

Its objectives are to establish priorities, follow trends, identify vulnerable groups, high risk situations and reassess priorities

Ensure routine mechanisms to provide data to program managers in comprehensible format of the analysis and presentation

As you assess a conscious patient for a spinal injury, you should examine the lower extremities for

The primary concern for patients with facial trauma should be

An injury to the eye should be treated by

The most important step when treating for chemical burns of the eye is to

Your patient has an impaled object through the cheek into the mouth. The patient is experiencing dyspnea due to bleeding from the impaled object. Your treatment should include

Venous hemorrhage can usually be suspected if the color is

During the initial assessment, you find a severe arterial bleeding from an extremity. What is the first method to control the bleed?

A 39-year-old patient crashed their car into a tree. He is conscious and complaining severe pain in the right anterior chest and difficulty of breathing. After ensuring an adequate airway, you should next

You are evaluating a 32 year old male who sustained a stab wound in the abdomen. You note fat and intestines protruding through the open wound. In managing the patient, you should

The urgency of transport for female patients with injuries to the genitalia will depend on the following EXCEPT

You are evaluating a 56-year-old male with bleeding from the nose. You should