Free CHEP Practice Questions

Question 1

Smoke from a linen-room fire is entering a hospital's west inpatient corridor. The alarm has been activated and the fire response is underway. A smoke barrier separates the east compartment on the same floor; the route to it is clear, and it has capacity and staff to receive the threatened patients. What patient-movement instruction should incident command issue first?

Accepted Answer

Move the threatened patients horizontally into the protected east compartment with their clinical support.

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Start moving all patients on the floor downstairs to the ambulance loading area.

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Keep patients in their current rooms until firefighters identify the fire's point of origin.

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Stage the threatened patients beside the west stairwell while off-site destinations are assigned.

Question 2

An emergency department receives several residents and a staff member from a nursing home during a power outage. They report headache, nausea, and dizziness; one resident is confused. A portable generator was running near an open service entrance. Conventional pulse oximetry reads 97%-99%. Which interpretation should guide the hospital's initial hazard assessment?

Accepted Answer

Carbon monoxide remains a leading concern despite the pulse oximeter readings.

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A contagious respiratory outbreak is more likely because staff and residents became ill together.

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A combustion-related exposure is unlikely because the measured oxygen saturations are within the normal range.

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Cyanide is the leading concern because generator exhaust typically causes impaired cellular oxygen use.

Question 3

A Medicare-participating hospital activated its emergency operations plan during an actual March flood. Its next required community-based full-scale exercise is scheduled for July, and its additional annual exercise is a qualifying facilitated tabletop in October. No accreditor or state rule adds a separate exercise requirement. Which statement correctly applies the federal testing requirements?

Accepted Answer

Use the flood activation exemption for July, retain October, and document and analyze the flood response.

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Cancel both exercises because activation of the emergency plan satisfies the entire annual testing requirement.

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Retain July and cancel October because only discussion-based exercises can be replaced by an actual emergency.

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Cancel July and add a second tabletop in October because the regulation still requires two simulated exercises.

Question 4

At the hospital command center, the Operations Section Chief is directing patient transfers. Before the next operational period, someone must reconcile unit census reports, project resource needs, and assemble the incident action plan for approval. Who should lead that work?

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The Planning Section Chief, who integrates situation and resource information.

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The Logistics Section Chief, who arranges incident support and supplies.

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The Operations Section Chief, who directs the transfer teams' work.

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The Liaison Officer, who coordinates with assisting agencies and their representatives.

Question 5

A hospital's hazard vulnerability analysis treats power failure as well controlled because the emergency generator has passed every load test. Both normal and emergency power, however, depend on electrical switchgear in a flood-prone basement. Which mitigation project most directly addresses this vulnerability?

Accepted Answer

Relocate the shared switchgear outside the assessed flood exposure.

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Increase on-site fuel storage to support a longer interruption of utility service.

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Add a second emergency generator that feeds the existing basement switchgear.

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Increase the frequency of full-load testing and emergency power-loss drills.

Question 6

The next exercise must test hospital command, bed reporting, and mutual-aid requests under real-time pressure. Participants will work from their actual command locations, but controllers will simulate ambulances, patients, and outside agencies. Physical deployment is not an objective. The exercise director should select a:

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Functional exercise

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Full-scale exercise

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Tabletop exercise

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Single-function drill

Question 7

A medical-gas system has a very low estimated probability of failure. The documented risk assessment nevertheless finds that loss of the system would likely cause major injury or death before alternative support could be established. Under NFPA 99, how should this system be classified?

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Category 1

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Category 2

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Category 3

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Category 4

Question 8

A regional children's hospital must relocate two ventilated infants before a projected utility failure. A nearby hospital reports eight open adult ward beds; a farther center has accepted both infants into staffed pediatric intensive care beds. Travel times are within the infants' verified support endurance. What should guide the healthcare coalition's placement assistance?

Accepted Answer

Match the infants to the accepted pediatric beds and appropriately equipped transport.

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Use the nearest hospital to minimize time spent in transit.

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Use the larger bed count to preserve the specialized center's capacity for additional pediatric emergencies.

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Split placements between the hospitals to balance the regional workload.

Question 9

An industrial worker is sent to the emergency department after an unintended exposure to an intact, sealed gamma source. The source remains at the worksite, and radiation-safety personnel confirm that the worker has no radioactive contamination. Registration asks whether the patient must enter through decontamination. Which direction is appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Use the usual clinical route; external irradiation alone does not cause contamination.

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Decontaminate the worker before allowing entry into clinical treatment areas.

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Keep the patient outside the treatment area until radiation safety calculates the total absorbed dose.

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Transfer directly to a radiation-specialty hospital before providing the initial emergency medical evaluation.

Question 10

During a pandemic, the intensive care unit is full. The hospital activates a preplanned conversion of its postanesthesia care unit using qualified critical-care staff, appropriate monitoring, ventilators, and oxygen. Clinical leaders verify that the care delivered there is functionally equivalent to usual intensive care. Which response is justified by these conditions?

Accepted Answer

Use the converted area as contingency capacity and monitor its ability to maintain equivalent care.

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Invoke crisis allocation because the patients will be cared for outside the ICU.

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Transfer all overflow patients before using the converted area because keeping care in its usual location takes precedence.

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Record this as conventional capacity because equivalent care is still available.

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