RMA COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL
ASSISTANT REVIEW SHEET FULL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
●● A discussion involving the physician providing the patient or the
patients legal representative with a deeper understanding of the patients
conditions, a full explanation of the plan for treatment, and enough
information to decide weather the patient will undergo the treatment or
seek an alternative is called what type of consent.
Answer: informed cosent
●● Translated as "the thing speaks for itself", which of the following is
evidence showing that negligence by the accused person may be
resasonably inferred from the nature of the inquiry occurring to the
plantiff?
Answer: Res ipsa loquitor
●● What is court order requiring a witness to produce records for a trial?
Answer: subpoena duces tecum
●● what is an appropriate responsibility for the medical assistant when
assisting the physicain with a surgical procedure?
Answer: ensuring that there is a signed patient consent form on file
,●● what type of case would best exemplify the concept of res ipsa
loquitor?
Answer: a surgeon leaves a sponge in a patients abdominal cavity after
abdominal surgery
●● under the doctorine physicians are legally responsible for the acts of
their employees when they are acting within the scope of their duties or
employment
Answer: respondent superior
●● medical practice act are laws enacted to
Answer: define what is included in the practice of medicine
●● in some states, a minor is legally unable to make treatment decisions
with limited exceptions. under what circumstances would a patient such
as jane doe, a 16 year old minor, suffering from cancer, be allowed to
refuse continued chemotherapy treatments
Answer: a emanicpated minor
●● an example of medical assistant illegally practicing medicine is
Answer: giving advice on a patient condition
●● the controlled substance act is a united states law that regulates
controlled drugs. The law is administered by the Drug Enforcement
, Administration. All of the following are responsibilities of medical
assistant in the medical setting when dealing with controlled substance
EXCEPT
Answer: prescribing controlled drugs
●● in the absence of the employing physician, a medical assistant
determines that a patient needs a prescription drug and dispenses the
wrong drug from the physicians supply the performance of this totally
wrongful and unlawful act is known as
Answer: malfeasance
●● Dr. martin agrees to perform an appendectomy on Mrs. O'Hara. Mrs.
O'Hara has received anesthesia and is prepped for surgery. Dr. Martin is
double-booked so he allows the Chief Resident, Dr. Thompson, to
perform Mrs. O'Hara appendectomy. The practice of substituting another
surgeon with out the patients consent is the unethical situation known as
Answer: ghost surgery
●● Mrs. Jones is diagnosed with a terminal illness. She as given
permission for her husband Mr. Jones, to have access to her medical
information. Dr. Smith informs Mr. Jones that his wife is terminally ill.
Mr. Jones does not want Dr. Smith to tell her patient that is is terminally
ill. The physician would violate which of the following ethical principles
if she does not inform her patient of the correct diagnosis
Answer: veracity
ASSISTANT REVIEW SHEET FULL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
●● A discussion involving the physician providing the patient or the
patients legal representative with a deeper understanding of the patients
conditions, a full explanation of the plan for treatment, and enough
information to decide weather the patient will undergo the treatment or
seek an alternative is called what type of consent.
Answer: informed cosent
●● Translated as "the thing speaks for itself", which of the following is
evidence showing that negligence by the accused person may be
resasonably inferred from the nature of the inquiry occurring to the
plantiff?
Answer: Res ipsa loquitor
●● What is court order requiring a witness to produce records for a trial?
Answer: subpoena duces tecum
●● what is an appropriate responsibility for the medical assistant when
assisting the physicain with a surgical procedure?
Answer: ensuring that there is a signed patient consent form on file
,●● what type of case would best exemplify the concept of res ipsa
loquitor?
Answer: a surgeon leaves a sponge in a patients abdominal cavity after
abdominal surgery
●● under the doctorine physicians are legally responsible for the acts of
their employees when they are acting within the scope of their duties or
employment
Answer: respondent superior
●● medical practice act are laws enacted to
Answer: define what is included in the practice of medicine
●● in some states, a minor is legally unable to make treatment decisions
with limited exceptions. under what circumstances would a patient such
as jane doe, a 16 year old minor, suffering from cancer, be allowed to
refuse continued chemotherapy treatments
Answer: a emanicpated minor
●● an example of medical assistant illegally practicing medicine is
Answer: giving advice on a patient condition
●● the controlled substance act is a united states law that regulates
controlled drugs. The law is administered by the Drug Enforcement
, Administration. All of the following are responsibilities of medical
assistant in the medical setting when dealing with controlled substance
EXCEPT
Answer: prescribing controlled drugs
●● in the absence of the employing physician, a medical assistant
determines that a patient needs a prescription drug and dispenses the
wrong drug from the physicians supply the performance of this totally
wrongful and unlawful act is known as
Answer: malfeasance
●● Dr. martin agrees to perform an appendectomy on Mrs. O'Hara. Mrs.
O'Hara has received anesthesia and is prepped for surgery. Dr. Martin is
double-booked so he allows the Chief Resident, Dr. Thompson, to
perform Mrs. O'Hara appendectomy. The practice of substituting another
surgeon with out the patients consent is the unethical situation known as
Answer: ghost surgery
●● Mrs. Jones is diagnosed with a terminal illness. She as given
permission for her husband Mr. Jones, to have access to her medical
information. Dr. Smith informs Mr. Jones that his wife is terminally ill.
Mr. Jones does not want Dr. Smith to tell her patient that is is terminally
ill. The physician would violate which of the following ethical principles
if she does not inform her patient of the correct diagnosis
Answer: veracity
