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Medical Assistant Certification Exam

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The reference procedural code book that uses a numbering system developed by the AMA is called a....






2. Payment made periodically to keep an insurance policy in force is called...






3. Any indibidual -living or dead -whose blood -or other potentially infectious materials nay be a sourse of occupational exposure to the employee is called a ...






4. Inflammation of the pancreas is called...






5. The point at wich air enters the respiratory tract is called the...






6. You should wash your hands for approximately....






7. The venipuncture site should be cleansed with...






8. The health worker is protected by law if it can be determined that he or she acted reasonable as compared with fellow workers.This is called...






9. Which of the following is used to take an infant's rectal temperature?






10. The right ventricle pumps the used blood to the lungs by way of the ................... artery






11. A method of charching whereby a physician presents a bill for each service render is called...






12. A date on a bottle of medication that provides a ''use until'' date is the...






13. What kind of environment do microorganisms grow best in?






14. Medical research is often published in medical journals that are evaluated by members of the medical community through a process known as...






15. Inflammation of the pleura is called...






16. Bones of the wrist and ankle are called ..............bones.






17. Inflammation of the appendix is called...






18. The medical abbreviation for by mouth is...






19. A form to itemize deposits made to savings or checking accounts is called...






20. A type of insurance whereby the insured pays a specific amount per unit if service and the isurer pays the rest of the cost is called...






21. The word element SUPER means...






22. A recap sheet that accompanies a Medicare or Medicaid check - showing breakdown and explanation of payment on a claim is called...






23. During a venipuncture - to secure the needle during insertion into the tube stopper - you need a .......






24. One of the arteries that supplies the hand and forearm is called the ....






25. The humerus is located in the....






26. A legal statement of how an individual's property is to be distributed after death is...






27. When doing a venipuncture th syringe or tube should be ....... the venipuncture site to prevent back-flow.






28. Biohazard labels must be colored...






29. A special device called a 'regulator' or 'flow meter' is necessary when using...






30. Never clean a glass thermometer with...






31. A request for payment under an insurance contractor bond is called a...






32. When cleansing the venipuncture site - it is good practice to...






33. Conduct -courtesy -and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by medical professionals are known as...






34. A health care worker who unconsciously transports harmful bacteria but is not ill called a...






35. When testing for occult blood which of the following speciments would be required?






36. If during a venipuncture a patient has a syncopal episode what would be your best course of action?

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37. A system whereby large quantities of data can be accessed -searched -sorted -and arranged very rapidly by computer is called a............... system






38. The abbreviation for two times a day is...






39. An unexpected event which may cause injury is called...






40. Failure to achieve an agreed upon result -even when the highest degree of skill has been used - is called...






41. When mixing reagents always read the label






42. Wgen a drop of blood is placed on a slide -place a second slide............ the first slide.






43. The wind pipe which conducts air between the larynx and lungs is called the...






44. Reasonable anticipated skin -eye -mucous membrane - or parenteral contact with blood - or other potentially infectious materials that may result form the performance of an employee's duties is called....






45. To cleanse the typical venipuncture site - begin at the intende site of the draw and....






46. The use of ultrasound to produce a picture of the structure of the heart is called...






47. When the physician feels with fingers or hands to determine the physical characteristics oftissues or organs it is called...






48. What licence must a physician have to dispense -precribe or administer controlled substances?






49. Which of these generally results form an act of carelessness - without an intent to harm?






50. Contact with blood - or other body fluids to which universal precautions apply through percutaneous inoculation - or contact with an open wound - non-intact skin - or mocous membrane during the performance of normal duties' This definition(found in t