NWCA STUDY GUIDE WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
By providing patients with quality care, ensuring accurate and timely payment for the
services furnished, mitigating malpractice risks, and helping healthcare providers
evaluate and plan the patient's treatment and maintain the continuum of care. - Correct
Answers -How are medical records critical to a patients care?
state - Correct Answers -Who establishes the scope of practice guidelines for a CMA?
sphygmomanometer - Correct Answers -What is used to take blood pressure?
otoscope - Correct Answers -What is used to examine ears?
To prioritize or sort the patients for care and treatment based on
the urgency of their need for care. Results in the best outcome for the greatest number
of people. - Correct Answers -The function of triage and why is it so important?
ophthalmoscope - Correct Answers -What is used to examine eyes?
stethoscope - Correct Answers -What is used to listen to your heart, lungs and bowl
sounds?
-If not present in the office go straight to Emergency Care.
- Call EMS on another line keep caller on phone to get additional info.
- If in office take to treatment room immediately and doctor notified and begin take vital
signs and symptoms. - Correct Answers -Actions to take if a patient has chest pain or
difficulty breathing?
soiled side folding inside - Correct Answers -Know how to discard exam paper?
A condition in which your immune system mistakenly attacks your body. Normally
guards against germs like bacteria and viruses. When it senses these foreign invaders,
it sends out an army of fighter cells to attack them.
Normally, the immune system can tell the difference between foreign cells and your own
cells.
In an autoimmune disease, the immune system mistakes part of your body, like your
joints or skin, as foreign. It releases proteins called autoantibodies that attack healthy
cells. - Correct Answers -How does an autoimmune disease affect your body?
What Do the body's cells do?
Type 1 the pancreas does not produce any insulin.
, Type 2 the pancreas still produces a little insulin but body is resistant. - Correct Answers
-Difference between Type 1 diabetes vs Type 11 diabetes?
Achieve total loss of sensation in the body by inducing loss of consciousness. - Correct
Answers -How is a general anesthetic used?
Provides a temporary loss of sensation from specific areas of the body. - Correct
Answers -How is local anesthetic used?
97.6 - 99.6 degrees F - Correct Answers -Normal range for body temperature?
60-100 bpm - Correct Answers -Normal range for adult pulse?
120/80 - Correct Answers -Normal range for blood pressure?
systolic pressure - Correct Answers -Name for the highest point of blood pressure?
dyastolic pressure - Correct Answers -Name for the lowest point of blood pressure?
tachy- - Correct Answers -rapid
-pnea - Correct Answers -breathing
It causes less tissue damage. - Correct Answers -Why is a swaged needle is used to
sew up a laceration?
8-12 hours - Correct Answers -Fasting for a test requires how many hours of NPO
(nothing by mouth)
edema - Correct Answers -What is fluid accumulating in one area of the body and
causes swelling called?
It has to be tracked and signed by each persons it comes info contact with. - Correct
Answers -What is the chain of custody for specimens?
40-60 bpm - Correct Answers -If a heart beat starts in the AV node the rate of the
rhythm is?
gloves, goggles, gown, mask - Correct Answers -What is the sequence for taking off an
isolation gown gear.
Hemoglobin - Correct Answers -What is a substance that carries oxygen and is found i
RBC?
erythrocytes - Correct Answers -What is another name for RBC?
SOLUTIONS
By providing patients with quality care, ensuring accurate and timely payment for the
services furnished, mitigating malpractice risks, and helping healthcare providers
evaluate and plan the patient's treatment and maintain the continuum of care. - Correct
Answers -How are medical records critical to a patients care?
state - Correct Answers -Who establishes the scope of practice guidelines for a CMA?
sphygmomanometer - Correct Answers -What is used to take blood pressure?
otoscope - Correct Answers -What is used to examine ears?
To prioritize or sort the patients for care and treatment based on
the urgency of their need for care. Results in the best outcome for the greatest number
of people. - Correct Answers -The function of triage and why is it so important?
ophthalmoscope - Correct Answers -What is used to examine eyes?
stethoscope - Correct Answers -What is used to listen to your heart, lungs and bowl
sounds?
-If not present in the office go straight to Emergency Care.
- Call EMS on another line keep caller on phone to get additional info.
- If in office take to treatment room immediately and doctor notified and begin take vital
signs and symptoms. - Correct Answers -Actions to take if a patient has chest pain or
difficulty breathing?
soiled side folding inside - Correct Answers -Know how to discard exam paper?
A condition in which your immune system mistakenly attacks your body. Normally
guards against germs like bacteria and viruses. When it senses these foreign invaders,
it sends out an army of fighter cells to attack them.
Normally, the immune system can tell the difference between foreign cells and your own
cells.
In an autoimmune disease, the immune system mistakes part of your body, like your
joints or skin, as foreign. It releases proteins called autoantibodies that attack healthy
cells. - Correct Answers -How does an autoimmune disease affect your body?
What Do the body's cells do?
Type 1 the pancreas does not produce any insulin.
, Type 2 the pancreas still produces a little insulin but body is resistant. - Correct Answers
-Difference between Type 1 diabetes vs Type 11 diabetes?
Achieve total loss of sensation in the body by inducing loss of consciousness. - Correct
Answers -How is a general anesthetic used?
Provides a temporary loss of sensation from specific areas of the body. - Correct
Answers -How is local anesthetic used?
97.6 - 99.6 degrees F - Correct Answers -Normal range for body temperature?
60-100 bpm - Correct Answers -Normal range for adult pulse?
120/80 - Correct Answers -Normal range for blood pressure?
systolic pressure - Correct Answers -Name for the highest point of blood pressure?
dyastolic pressure - Correct Answers -Name for the lowest point of blood pressure?
tachy- - Correct Answers -rapid
-pnea - Correct Answers -breathing
It causes less tissue damage. - Correct Answers -Why is a swaged needle is used to
sew up a laceration?
8-12 hours - Correct Answers -Fasting for a test requires how many hours of NPO
(nothing by mouth)
edema - Correct Answers -What is fluid accumulating in one area of the body and
causes swelling called?
It has to be tracked and signed by each persons it comes info contact with. - Correct
Answers -What is the chain of custody for specimens?
40-60 bpm - Correct Answers -If a heart beat starts in the AV node the rate of the
rhythm is?
gloves, goggles, gown, mask - Correct Answers -What is the sequence for taking off an
isolation gown gear.
Hemoglobin - Correct Answers -What is a substance that carries oxygen and is found i
RBC?
erythrocytes - Correct Answers -What is another name for RBC?
