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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. When doing a venipuncture th syringe or tube should be ....... the venipuncture site to prevent back-flow.
Hepatic
Below
Subpoena
Abduction
2. An amount the insures must pay before policy benefits begin is called...
Deductible
Show respect for thei culture
Stertorous Respiration
Ethics
3. The process by which an object or area becomes unclean is ....
Seven
contamination
Proximate cause
Quality control
4. An agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of some definite thing is ...
CA
Worker's compensation
Hand
Contract
5. Certain types of cultures -such as deep wound cultures could contain anaerobic pathogens. which of the following conditions is required for their growth?
Auxilliary
At the left hand margin
Adduction
Absence of oxygen
6. A legal statement of how an individual's property is to be distributed after death is...
2 to 60 seconds
GI or G.I
Will
po
7. The Tri-Care fiscal year is form...
Malpractice
Ketone bodies (ketones)
October 1 to September 30
Foot
8. While ordering procedures may vay -generallly a type a tepe and RH are ordered on all pregnant women.
hyper
Cardiovascular
Draw a line through the error -insert the correct information -date and initial it.
Prenatal
9. A fraudulent signature is called...
antitussive
Pre-certification
Intervals
Forgery
10. The smaller of the lower leg bones is called...
Erythrocyte sedimentation rates
Hand
Tibia
Rotation
11. The brain -nerves -and spinal cord are in the ........ system
Show respect for thei culture
Deductible
Hemorrhoids
Nervous
12. Arterioles are smallest type of...
arteries
UA
Hypnotic
Gingivitis
13. The presumtion or inference of negligence when an accident is otherise unable to be explained in terms of ordinary and known experience is called...
Res ipsa loquitur
gavae
Glass
Lavage
14. The medical term for the time when menstruation begins is...
syr
Menarche
Cultures
tranquilizer
15. That which in natural and continous sequence -unbroken by any new independent cause - produces an event - and without wich the injury would not have occurred is called...
lancet
Proximate cause
emulsion
Fee-for-service
16. The patella is located in the...
Suspension
Knee
Supiration
CC
17. The clean-catch urine specmen is also called.....
Drug Enforcement Agency
exposure control plan
1-clean-voided speimen 2- mid-stream Specimen
Smile
18. A recap sheet that accompanies a Medicare or Medicaid check - showing breakdown and explanation of payment on a claim is called...
Explanation of benefits
Quality control
W-4
Tort
19. The common term for a decubitus ulcer;a pressure sore is...
Systolic pressure
bedsore
Foot
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.
20. A medical Assistant would measure the patient's temperature -pulse - and respiration when the physician asks him or her to...
Take vital signs
The use of a fetal transplantation for research
Nasogastric tube
Primarily
21. Unauthorized disclosure of information regarding any patient to a third party may result in...
GI or G.I
Invasion of privacy
pneumothorax
Agonal
22. The combination of sensors or electrodes used for lead # 1 is...
Left arm -right arm
emul
ALCOHOL
Delete
23. Digestion begins in the mouth - where food is chewed and mixed with a substance called...
Saliva
Prone
Dark and warm
Nasal cavity
24. The major vein that drains the pelvis is called the ...
Common iliac
Hemiplegia
Rhinitis
Battery
25. The wind pipe which conducts air between the larynx and lungs is called the...
kidney
Pain
Hardware
Trachea
26. Whoping cough is another name for...
So your clothes do not touch the sink.
Head
Res judicata
Pertussis
27. What is considered a normal adult pulse rate?
2 to 60 seconds
Red
Hardware
90-130
28. ........................ values are increased in infections and inflammatory disease.
TPR
Erythrocyte sedimentation rates
Invasion of privacy
oint -ung
29. A major crime for which greater punishment is imposed other than a misdemeanor is...
Felony
Intercostal
Reflex
Assignment of benefits
30. The major artery that supplies the kidney is called the.......... artery
Renal
Arm
Puncture-resistant
Vomiting
31. An incoming call should be answered by the ..... ring.
Placebo
inflammation
Third
Auxilliary
32. How many hematocrit tubes should be collected form the patient?
Smile
Flexion
2
Air -lungs
33. The word element EMESIS means...
unreliable
Emancipated minor
Vomiting
Sinus arrest
34. The medical term for paralysis form the waist down is...
sol
Paraplegia
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.
Back
35. Broken glassware which may be contaminated shall not be picked up directly with the hands - but by mechanical means - such as......
A brush and dust pan
unreliable
treatment of angina pectoris
Cleanse the site form the inside out and allow it to air dry.
36. When you pull the second slide apart form the first slide -let them...
Endorsement
Red blood cells
Auscultation
Air dry
37. Failure to achieve an agreed upon result -even when the highest degree of skill has been used - is called...
Defendant
Hot water
Breach of contract
Life threatening
38. The word element SUPER means...
Rotation
Hot water
pneumothorax
above
39. The process of changing words into numbers so that computers can be in processing insurance claims is called...
Pre-certification
Coding
2
Atrophy
40. The word element POST means...
Fax machine
after
Stool sample
Plasma
41. Branches of the bundle branches - which transmit the impluses to the walls of the ventricles - causing the ventricles to the contract are called...
Celiac
punkinje fibers
New growth
The medical hand wash
42. What kind of environment do microorganisms grow best in?
Dark and warm
2 to 60 seconds
popliteal
Myocardial infarction
43. When anticoagulated blood is centrifuged....... goes to the tope of the tube.
Vaginitis
Stertorous Respiration
Anorexia
Plasma
44. Parcel post or......... class mail is used for bound printed matter -film - & sound recordings.
Hemiplegia
Fourth
Leg
W-4
45. After they are used -disposable syringes and needles -scalpel blades - and other sharp items should be placed in ................... containers for disposal.
Head
Dorsal recumbent
Puncture-resistant
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.
46. Contaminated laundryy shall be........ where it was soiled.
Bagged or containerized at the location.
Abandonment
oint -ung
Echocardiography
47. The vertebrae are located in the ...
Placing the medication between the gum and the check
Deductible
Life threatening
Back
48. When using a fire extinguisher the hose should be directly to the...
Pink
base of the fire.
auxillary
Smaller
49. The ulna is located in the ....
Red
Subpoena
Gunshot wound
Arm
50. During a venipuncture - to secure the needle during insertion into the tube stopper - you need a .......
Microbiological Agents
Holder
Take vital signs
PPBS