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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 patella is located in the...
Living cells
Knee
Ketone bodies (ketones)
Delete
2. When preparing for lead placement you should first care for...
Contract
Health Insure Portability and Accountability Act
Explanation of benefits
Skin preparation
3. The word elements ALGIA - ALGESIA refer tos...
A stethoscope and shygmomanometer
Pain
Superficial
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
4. To correct a hanwritten error in a patient's chart - it is only acceptable to...
ECG
Glass
Veins pulsate
Draw a line through the error -insert the correct information -date and initial it.
5. 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.
Erythrocyte sedimentation rates
Pink
Assault
Carotid
6. Arterioles are smallest type of...
exposure control plan
Sinusitis
arteries
Checkbook
7. A doctor who agress to accept an insurance companies fee as the maximum amount to be collecte is called...
1-catherer 2-cannula 3-tent
Participating physician
decongestant
Mouth or the ostium uteri
8. Under the Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982 - Peer Review Organizations are responsible for the review for appropriateness an necessity of putting a patient into the hospital by a process known as........ review
Expert testimony
Admissions
Pre-certification
Nasal cavity
9. Low income patients can be covered by what type of insurance?
Medicaid
Inpatient
Extended care facility
Cultures
10. The abbreviation for below or low is...
Diuretic
Hypo
Oxygen
Medical grievance
11. Lesions of the mucous membrane of the stomach are called........... ulcers
diuretic
Gastric
Ophthalmoscope
Primarily
12. All workers whose jobs involve participation in tasks - or activities with exposure to blood -or other body fluids to which universal precautions apply -should be vaccinated with................... vaccine.
antipyretic
Sterilize
Contaminated Sharps
Hepatitis B
13. When taking the pulse - you must be able to report accurately the...
Usual - customary and reasonable
So your clothes do not touch the sink.
Nasal cavity
1-Rhythm of pulse beats.2-Rate(number of pulse beats per minute) 3-force of the beat.
14. Oxygen is a administered to the patient by way of a ...............
1-catherer 2-cannula 3-tent
Remote
Cleanse the site form the inside out and allow it to air dry.
Co-payment
15. Benefits that are made in the form of cash payments are known as...
Subscriber
Myocardial infarction
vein
Indenmities
16. When performing a venipuncture - if you have the patient...... the veins will become more prominent.
Remove the needle and tourniquet and lower patient's head and arms
Make a fist
Right
Palpate
17. The reference procedural code book that uses a numbering system developed by the AMA is called a....
Third
lab
Current procedural terminology
Attach the envelope to the correspondence
18. With vital signs - any abnormal measurement must be inmediately reported to the...
popliteal
Epigastric Region
Doctor
Sensitivity
19. ............................ are defined as what are right and wrong.
UA
Pre-certification
Knee-chest
Ethics
20. The venipuncture site should be cleansed with...
oint -ung
Res ipsa loquitur
Dysuris
An alcohol prep
21. The brain -nerves -and spinal cord are in the ........ system
Nervous
Direction or shape
PT and PTT
Vasodilator
22. Parcel post or......... class mail is used for bound printed matter -film - & sound recordings.
Fourth
Opposite each other
Pre-certification
Fee-for-service
23. The abbreviation for tincture is ...
tinc
Health maintenance organization
Sugar
Glucose tolerance test
24. A drug that neutralizes acidity is called an...
mydriatic
Antacid
Delete
CPT
25. Ventricular depolarizarion produces an electrical force or vector with 2 components(1) Magnitude of force - and 2-...
Invasion of privacy
Direction or shape
Keto-diastix
Shifts up or down form baseline
26. The abbreviation for tablet is...
Worker's compensation
Backup
tab
Contagious
27. The wind pipe which conducts air between the larynx and lungs is called the...
Quadriplegia
Trachea
Sugar
Sinus arrest
28. A respiratory rate greater han 24 per minute is called...
Homeostasis
Tachypnea
Orange-red
Foot
29. What kind of environment do microorganisms grow best in?
Respondeat superior
Dark and warm
Hypertension
Tibia
30. 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...
Blood
Carotid
Angina pectoris
a septal defect
31. It is........................ to deny treatment to an HIV infected patients
Unethical
Timed
vein
CPT
32. A person who is no longer under the care -custody -or supervision of a parent is called...
Emancipated minor
Hand
Crime
Software
33. The abbreviation for urinalysis is...
Clavicle
UA
Red
Worker's compensation
34. In the health care field the acronym HIPAA stands for...
Medicaid
Cardiovascular
Health Insure Portability and Accountability Act
The point where the first sound is heard.
35. An accumulation of air in the pleural cavity after the lungs collapse is known as...
pneumothorax
Negative
Sinusitis
Cholecystitis
36. The blood Pressure should not be taken on an arm if...
Antacid
Hypnotic
22
1-the patient has had brest surgery on that side. 2-On an arm with an IV infusion.3- on an arm with a cast.
37. The branch of study of moral issues -questions - and problems arising in the practice of medicine and in biomedical research is called...
TPR
Software
Third
Litigation
38. Which one of the following evacuated tubes would be drams first?
Red
Respiration
TPR
1-the patient has had brest surgery on that side. 2-On an arm with an IV infusion.3- on an arm with a cast.
39. The abbreviation for syrup is...
syr
Move the cursor -right -left -up or down
stethoscope
Ethics
40. The tube used to collect a blood sample for a Complete Blood Count (cbc) is.....
Lavander top -ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid additive
bronchi
Lithiotomy.
Battery
41. The majority of the bones in the arms and legs are.......... bones
Colitis
Hospital Benefits
Long
Knee
42. Pactices to achieve asepsis are known as
Clean technique
Accident
Explanation of benefits
Rotation
43. It is very important when performing a capillary stick to do with one of the following?
Breach
UA
Tachypnea
Not use alcohol to clean the site
44. Conduct -courtesy -and manners that are customarily used in a medical office by medical professionals are known as...
Medical etiquette
14 to 20
Bland diet
Reflex
45. The abbreviation for intramuscular is...
IM
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Stertorous Respiration
1-catherer 2-cannula 3-tent
46. The medical term for the time when menstruation begins is...
Placing the medication between the gum and the check
Menarche
Fibrillation
loss of appetite and fatigue 2-fever -nause -rash -and vomiting. 3- pain -redness or swelling.
47. One of the vital functions of long bones is the formation of...
Non-verbal communication
Ectopic
Red blood cells
Adhesive
48. Washing out the stomach through a nasogastric tube is called...
Cirrhosis
Lavage
P
Uniform
49. When mixing reagents always read the label
Heat eith steam under pressure
Arm
Dorsal recumbent
Twice
50. The abbreviation for suppository is...
tranquilizer
Leg
supp
Reflex