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Medical Assistant Certification Exam
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certifications
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health-sciences
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. Which of the following locations is usually used for taking a pulse?
Arm
Apical-radial pulse
Attach the envelope to the correspondence
GI or G.I
2. A specific eye -mouth -other mucous membrane -non-intact skin - or parenteral contact with blood - or other potentially infectious meterials that results form the performance of an employees duties is called...
exposure incident
Health Insure Portability and Accountability Act
Coinsurance
stethoscope
3. When working with pstients form a culture different than your own - one should...
Not use alcohol to clean the site
Unethical
Show respect for thei culture
Classification of environmental events -such as poisoning
4. The major artery to the head is called the
Battery
Worker's compensation
Fourth
Carotid
5. The major artery that supplies the kneww is called the...
Q wave
Wrist
Rhinitis
popliteal
6. Some clinical signs for head injury could be...
1-vomiting.2-headache.3-confusion.
Diuretic
Provider
emulsion
7. The freh-fractional urine specimen is used to test urine for...
Delete
Brachial
Sugar
Attach the envelope to the correspondence
8. If the septum of the hearth has an abnomal opening it is referred to as...
Proximate cause
Hypertension
a septal defect
small
9. Benefits that are made in the form of cash payments are known as....
Leg
elix
Indemnities
Heat eith steam under pressure
10. Digestion begins in the mouth - where food is chewed and mixed with a substance called...
exposure control plan
Gastric
Saliva
Seven
11. The liver -stomach -mouth -and pancreas are in the .........system
Medical grievance
digestive
Head
Knee
12. The suffix -emia means...
Blood
Head
0.20 sec
Air dry
13. The majority of the bones in the arms and legs are.......... bones
stethoscope
Long
gram stain
d/c
14. When you wash your hands you should stand.....
loss of appetite and fatigue 2-fever -nause -rash -and vomiting. 3- pain -redness or swelling.
Appetite suppressor
Stool sample
So your clothes do not touch the sink.
15. The wind pipe which conducts air between the larynx and lungs is called the...
Reflex
Trachea
Deposit slip
urinary
16. Concent to treatment based on a full understanding of all possible risks of unproventable results of that treatment is called...
Respondeat superior
Preexisting condition
Assumption of risk
Lavender
17. To netermine the size of the needle remember that the higher the gauge number the......... needle
Smaller
Dorsal recumbent
Ectopic
Mouth or the ostium uteri
18. A system whereby large quantities of data can be accessed -searched -sorted -and arranged very rapidly by computer is called a............... system
Jugular
Infants and young children
Database management
Holder
19. The major vein that drains the liver is called the...
Make sure the skin is damp when applying the electrode
Prone
Hepatic
Human chrionic gonadotropin
20. The second portion of the small intestine is called the...
Speak slowing -loudly -and in easy-to- understand language.
Jejenum
emulsion
Security thermomether
21. When measuring bloo pressure...
lancet
Database management
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.
Blood
22. Latin for 'things decided' that is - a matter already decided by judicial authority is called...
Res judicata
Head
elix
Dorsiflexion
23. Referring to computers - the term 'use friendly' refers to...
Flexion
unreliable
How easy the system is to operate
Specimen collection
24. The medical term for the time when menstruation begins is...
Lavage
Nasogastric tube
Menarche
Empathy
25. The electrode site should be...
Vasodilator
0.5cc
Clean -smooth - and dry
Comprehensive
26. What is considered a normal adult respiration per minute?
Make sure the skin is damp when applying the electrode
Emancipated minor
14 to 20
contributory negligence
27. A......... report includes information relating to the patien's main reason for scheduling an appointment to see the physician.
Law
1-clean-voided speimen 2- mid-stream Specimen
History and physical examination
Medical grievance
28. The pubis is located in the ...
Separates the cellular and liquid portion of the blood
decongestant
Pelvis
Foot
29. What federal agency requires the use of Sharps Containers?
Keto-diastix
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Subpoena
Hospital Benefits
30. A rider added to a policy to provide additional benefits for certain conditions is called...
0.50%
po
Dread disease rider
Tort
31. Every medical facility is required by OSHA to have an ............... - which hall be made available to the Assistant Secretary and the Director OSHA upon request for examination and copying.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Invasion of privacy
exposure control plan
Thirds face up
32. A QRS measurement of less than.......... seconds indicates a supraventricular pacemaker....
0.12
Perform quality control testing with every new kit and routinely thereafter.
infective or infectious
iliac
33. A ............... requires the patient to be fasting and then blood is taken every hour for a predetermined time..
Glucose tolerance test
Placebo
Delete
umbilical region
34. 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...
Air dry
Inpatient
Co-payment
Osteology
35. The branch of study of moral issues -questions - and problems arising in the practice of medicine and in biomedical research is called...
Tort
Rectal
Litigation
Placebo
36. A form to itemize deposits made to savings or checking accounts is called...
Back
Deposit slip
Lavander-top evacuated tube
Negligence
37. The most appropriate site for performing a capillary puncture is a healthy adult is the...
P
Glass
Great toe
PT and PTT
38. The abbreviation for discontinue is...
sourse individual
Tachypnea
d/c
Head
39. An extrauterine pregnancy in which the fertilized ovum begins to develop outside the uterus is called...
Hemorrhoids
Ears
Ectopic
Distance between patient and test chart
40. When doing a venipuncture th syringe or tube should be ....... the venipuncture site to prevent back-flow.
Below
Social Security
Blood films
Red blood cells
41. When you pull the second slide apart form the first slide -let them...
an EPA
Air dry
Opposite each other
Vomiting
42. When performing any CLIA waived test it is important do to which one of the following?
Accident
Palpate
Composition
Perform quality control testing with every new kit and routinely thereafter.
43. In the medical office the most frequently performed pulmonay function tests is....
AU
Battery
Inpatient
Spirometry.
44. 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
Human Exposure
Brachial
Classification of environmental events -such as poisoning
Ears
45. The ability to see form another person's point of view is...
Gland
digestive
Empathy
Third
46. In the application of electrodes -secure the electrode by rubbing your finger around the .......... area
Adhesive
Statute of limitations
Breach of confidentiality
lab
47. The abbreviation for toxic shock syndrome is...
Sterilization
Dread disease rider
TSS
Breach
48. Medical research is often published in medical journals that are evaluated by members of the medical community through a process known as...
Prenatal
Contagious
Carrier
Peer review
49. Deoxygenated blood enters the right atrium of the...
Nervous
a septal defect
Hearth
auxillary
50. The medical term for bending backward is...
Proximate cause
Irregular Respiration
Surgical removal
Dorsiflexion