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Medical Assistant Certification Exam
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 venipuncture site should be cleansed with...
An alcohol prep
1-vomiting.2-headache.3-confusion.
1000 to 15000 milliliters
Bland diet
2. The buccal method of administering a drug is done by ...
Physiology
Placing the medication between the gum and the check
Capillary
Hardware
3. The............. pages of the Physician's Desk Reference is where a medical assistant would be able to locate a medication by brand or genetic name.
Pelvis
Ophthalmoscope
Pink
Perform quality control testing with every new kit and routinely thereafter.
4. A health care worker who unconsciously transports harmful bacteria but is not ill called a...
Carrier
gtt
Overall approach to infection control
Lithiotomy.
5. The word element CRANIO means...
Skull
0.5cc
Gunshot wound
Head
6. The wind pipe which conducts air between the larynx and lungs is called the...
Trachea
decongestant
a paper towel
Privileged communication
7. High blood pressure is referred to as
Take all complaints seriously and ake through notes
Shallow respiration
Hypertension
Rhinitis
8. A legal statement of how an individual's property is to be distributed after death is...
Hardware
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Will
Twice
9. ............... testing should be made available by the employer to all workers who maybe concerned they have been infected with HIV through an occupational exposure.
Adduction
Premium
Serologic
Diastolic pressure
10. A respiratory rate greater han 24 per minute is called...
Tachypnea
Pulmonay
emulsion
Red top tube
11. What federal agency requires the use of Sharps Containers?
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
arteries
Fraud
Gunshot wound
12. Deoxygenated blood enters the right atrium of the...
Ethics
Hearth
Red top tube
Medical etiquette
13. The use of ultrasound to produce a picture of the structure of the heart is called...
Red skin
Echocardiography
Dorsiflexion
Carotid
14. The abbreviation for tincture is ...
tinc
Air -lungs
Quality control
popliteal
15. Negligence by a professional person is called...
Hypogastric region
Malpractice
GI or G.I
hemiplegia
16. The medical term for sugar in the urine iss...
glucosuria
Third
Benefits
Red
17. When writting a bussiness letter -the salutation of a letter should be followed by wich punctuation mark?
inj
Red top tube
Grammar
Colon
18. The Tri-Care fiscal year is form...
October 1 to September 30
Gingivitis
Blood
Not use alcohol to clean the site
19. It is recommended that protective masks and eye wear -or face shields -be worn by laboratory technicians - or housekeeping personnel........
Insurance agent
Never
Drug Enforcement Agency
When cleaning up blood or body fluids
20. Unauthorized disclosure of information regarding any patient to a third party may result in...
Superficial
Blood
Invasion of privacy
Assignment of benefits
21. When taking the pulse - you must be able to report accurately the...
Fibrillation
Jugular
Bagged or containerized at the location.
1-Rhythm of pulse beats.2-Rate(number of pulse beats per minute) 3-force of the beat.
22. The statement 'A physician shall respect the law' is a part of the...
Atrophy
AMA Code of Ethics
Health maintenance organization
0.20 sec
23. In the health care field the acronym HIPAA stands for...
Arm
Glucose tolerance test
Privileged communication
Health Insure Portability and Accountability Act
24. A sum of money provided in an insurance policy -payable for covered services is called...
Benefits
Tunning fork
chilled/refrigerated
Closed
25. General infection-control procedures are designed to prevent transmission of a wide range of ................ and to provide a wide margin of safety in the varied situations encountered in the health-care environment.
1-the cuff should be applied to the bare upper arm.2-room should be quiet so that blood pressure can be heard.3-sphygmomanometer needs to clearly visible.
Microbiological Agents
Breach
po
26. The word elements ALGIA - ALGESIA refer tos...
Unethical
Pain
ALCOHOL
Glass
27. The femur is located in the...
gavae
0.5cc
Ethics
Leg
28. To use a physical chemical procedure to destroy all microbial life including highly resistant bacterial endospores is to...
Sterilize
Color Coded
Heart
Invasion of privacy
29. If the septum of the hearth has an abnomal opening it is referred to as...
The fourth intercostal spce right sternal border
Bland diet
a septal defect
sourse individual
30. ......................... is a federal regulation that requires health care professionals to protect the privacy and confidentiality of patient's health information.
Quality control
substances that have no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse
Pelvis
HIPAA
31. Some clinical signs for head injury could be...
1-vomiting.2-headache.3-confusion.
catheter
0.5 cc
Shifts up or down form baseline
32. The word element RENAL means...
Muscular
villi
Palpate
kidney
33. Permission granted by a person voluntarily and in his right mind is...
Rhinitis
Medical grievance
Consent
Perform quality control testing with every new kit and routinely thereafter.
34. The abbreviation for dressing is...
Thirds face up
Human chrionic gonadotropin
UA
dsg
35. Vaccinations against HBV infection provide 90% protection against hepatitis B for ............ or more years following vaccination.
Seven
Saliva
bronchi
popliteal
36. The abbreviation for fluid is...
Supiration
Short
fl or fld
Explanation of benefits
37. Conversion of a dysrhythmia to a normal rhythm by applying electric shock to the chest is called....
14 to 20
ALCOHOL
Defribillation
Systolic pressure
38. The major artery that supplies the kidney is called the.......... artery
Assumption of risk
Subpoena
Renal
Proximate cause
39. Benefits that are made in the form of cash payments are known as....
vein
antitussive
Plasma
Indemnities
40. Which of these generally results form an act of carelessness - without an intent to harm?
Gunshot wound
Leg
Pleurisy
Breach of confidentiality
41. Washing out the stomach through a nasogastric tube is called...
Deposition
Lavage
Co-payment
Irregular Respiration
42. The Maximum time a tourniquet should be tied on the upper arm drawing blood is ...
Built to provide support & structure
1 MINUTE
bronchi
Make a fist
43. An nstrument called a centrifuge.....
Dorsiflexion
Separates the cellular and liquid portion of the blood
1000 to 15000 milliliters
gavae
44. To measure a blood pressure -the medical assistant will need..
Absolute regular
A stethoscope and shygmomanometer
Suspension
Peer review
45. 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....
At the left hand margin
Contract
Tissue
Occupational exposure
46. What type of blood sample is needed when performing a PKU?
Keto-diastix
lancet
Capillary
Nervous
47. In the positioning of the electrodes - if the electrodes are placed too close together - the emplitude will be ............
small
urinary
Dysuris
Partial disability
48. Which of the following locations is usually used for taking a pulse?
Apical-radial pulse
auxillary
stethoscope
Quadriplegia
49. A coronary occlusion causing a condition that produces chest pain which may radiate to the left arm - shoulder -jaw or neck due to lack of blood supply to the hearth is called...
Health maintenance organization
Hematocrit.
Angina pectoris
Proximate cause
50. Before placing a telefone caller on a hold it is appropriate to...
1-ask if you may put the caller on hold. 2- wait for the caller to confirm they can wait. 3-obtain a return phone number.
PT and PTT
abduction
Trachea