Medical Assisting

1. The medical assistant reads a hand written clinical order from the physician and, due to the handwriting, cannot distinguish the dose of the medication ordered. The medical assistant should:

Make a best guess and take off the order.

Dismiss any concern and transcribe the order as best as possible

Call the physician to verify the order.

Ask a coworker what he or she thinks the order dose is.

Which bone is found superior to the pelvis and inferior to the cranium?

Clavicle

Metacarpals

Radius

Femur

The abbreviation CSF stands for

Cerebral stenosis finding

Cortical stimulant factor

chronic stimulating factor

Cerebrospinal fluid

The medical assistant is getting coffee with a friend after work. She mentions to the friend that she recently saw the friend’s neighbor in the office and that she is feeling better after having had kidney stones. This is:

Not a breach of confidentiality.

An okay situation to have

Close to breaching confidentiality

A breach of confidentiality

A physician’s office schedules patients at the top of the hour and brings them to the exam room based on arrival time. This method is known as:

Cluster scheduling.

Open hours scheduling

Time-specified scheduling

Wave scheduling

The medical assistant is asked to obtain a sterile urine specimen from a patient. The medical assistant should:

Hand the cup to the patient and ask for a urine sample. D. Ask the patient to provide a urine sample without using toilet paper afterward.

Instruct the patient to start the urine stream and then catch some in the cup until it is about half way full

instruct the patient to urinate in the cup until it is three quarters full

Ask the patient to provide a urine sample without using toilet paper afterward

The medical assistant is seating a patient in the exam room who will be receiving a pelvic examination. The medical assistant should:

Lengthen the exam table and ask the patient to lie down on it

Lengthen the exam table and attach to extend the foot supports

Shorten the exam table and tell the patient to remove only her shirt when changing into a gown

Shorten the exam table and have the patient sit on its edge with her feet dangling

A patient with ESRD(End Stage Renal Disease) is likely to end up with a surplus of which of the flowing electrolytes?

Sodium, Na+

Magnesium, Mg2+

Chloride, Cl-

Potassium, K+

The physician orders a medication to be given PO. The medical assistant should:

Give the medication by applying it to the skin

Give the medication by mouth

Give the medication by injection

Give the medication by inserting it vaginally

The SOAP note acronym stands for

Situation, opinion, advice, and problem solved

Subjective, objective, action, and plan

Situation, objective, assessment, and plan

Subjective, objective, assessment, and plan

A patient calls the office and describes a contusion over the phone to the medical assistant. Which of the following descriptions represents a contusion?

�an area of my right thigh is black and blue in color, and very sore,”

�an area of my left side that is numb and sometimes tingling to the touch,”

�a cut about three quarters of an inch long,”

�an area of my arm with raised red wells that won’t stop itching,”

A very low white blood cell count would be indicated with the medical term:

Osteopenia

Leucopenia

Thrombocytopenia

Anemia

Which of the following methods is the most common way to achieve sterilization?

Cold sterilization

Autoclave

Gas sterilization

Soap and water

Blood flows from the right atrium through the

Tricuspid valve

Aortic valve

Mitral valve

Bicuspid valve

Eye contact is an example of which of the following types of communication?

Empathic

Therapeutic

Nonverbal

Verbal

Which of the following is a situation where the legal term “Repsondeat Superior” would apply?

The medical assistant is late to work three days in a row

The medical assistant forgets to take the tourniquet off the arm of a patient

The medical assistant answers the office phone politely

The medical assistant takes the temperature of a child

The medical assistant obtains a rectal temperature on a child of 103.2 degree Fahrenheit. The medial assistant should:

Inform the pharmacy

Inform the office manager

inform the doctor

Inform the child he or she has a fever

The hypothalamus controls body temperature through the use of: A. . B. . C. . D. .

Negative feedback loop

Neutral feedback loop

Positive feedback loop

Self-limiting mechanism

Reference Laboratory:

Artery that carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs

Relating to patients from birth to the age of maturity usually 18 years of age

A laboratory that is outside a patient care facility; usually, it is able to perform many more types of testing than are available at the average hospital laboratory

Any medication that is administered in a route other than ingestion

A chronic disease characterized by thickening and hardening of the arteries:

Arteriosclerosis

Ventricles

Hypertensive crisis

Angina pectoris

Artery that carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs:

Pulmonary vein

Carotid artery

Temporal artery

Pulmonary artery

Bronchodilators:

Supplies that are expensive and not often replaces

A device for listening to the internal sounds of the body

A substance that dilates the bronchi in the lungs decreasing resistance in the respiratory airways

A device that administers medication in a mist form

Plaque buildup on the inner lining of blood vessels:

Atherosclerosis

Arteriosclerosis

Ventricles

Hemorrhoids

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