NHA CCMA EVALUATION PAPER ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔The presence of leukocytes in urine is an indicator for what? - ✔✔bacteruria or UTI
✔✔Urine Screening for UCG or HCG - ✔✔Pregnancy Test
✔✔HIPPA is for? - ✔✔Patient Confidentiality
✔✔The four elements of Negligence - ✔✔Duty, duty of care, derelict= breach of duty of
care, direct cause, damage
✔✔Tort - ✔✔Wrongful act that results in injury to one person to another
✔✔Examples of Tort - ✔✔Battery, invasion of privacy, defamation of character
✔✔Defamation of character by written statement is considered - ✔✔libel
✔✔Consists of injury to another person's reputation , name or character through spoken
(slander) or written (libel) - ✔✔Defamation of character
✔✔unpriveleged touching - ✔✔Battery
✔✔The release of medical records with out the patient's knowledge or permission -
✔✔Invasion of privacy
✔✔Good Samaritan Law - ✔✔Rendering first aid within the scope of knowledge by a
health care worker with out fear of being sued for negligence
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔regulates and maintains body temperature
✔✔Functions necessary for life - ✔✔heart function, blood pressure, respiration,
temperature
, ✔✔Rectal Temperature range in celsius - ✔✔37.0 -38.1 C
✔✔Oral temperature range in Fahrenheit - ✔✔97.6-99.6 F
✔✔Axillary temperature range in celsius - ✔✔35.9-37.0C
✔✔Tympanic temperature range in F and C - ✔✔98.6 F and 37C
✔✔Intermittent fever - ✔✔Fluctuating fever that returns to or below the baseline then
rises again
✔✔Remittent Fever - ✔✔Fluctuating, remains elevated and does not return to baseline
✔✔Continuous Fever - ✔✔remains constant above baseline, does not flucuate
✔✔Rectal temperature is not taken from the following patients - ✔✔Patients with heart
disease
✔✔WHen taking axillary temerature how long should it be taken - ✔✔5-10 mins or as
required by office policy
✔✔Pulse is taken where and how long - ✔✔radial for 30sec x2, if tachy or brady take it
1 minute
✔✔Explain blood pressure - ✔✔measurement of amount of force blood excertes on
peripheral artery walls
✔✔BP cuffs too short and narrow can give false reading of what? - ✔✔Hypertension
✔✔Taking BP hearing two consecutive beats gives which reading - ✔✔Systolic
✔✔Patient laying on back with knees flexed, soles of feet on bed - ✔✔Dorsal
recumbant
✔✔This position is used to promote drainage or ease of breathing - ✔✔Fowler's
✔✔This position is used for examination of the pelvic organs - ✔✔Dorsal Lithotomy
✔✔Prone position is used for - ✔✔used to examine back and spine
✔✔patient lays on his/her stomach with head turned to one side for comfort - ✔✔prone
position
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔The presence of leukocytes in urine is an indicator for what? - ✔✔bacteruria or UTI
✔✔Urine Screening for UCG or HCG - ✔✔Pregnancy Test
✔✔HIPPA is for? - ✔✔Patient Confidentiality
✔✔The four elements of Negligence - ✔✔Duty, duty of care, derelict= breach of duty of
care, direct cause, damage
✔✔Tort - ✔✔Wrongful act that results in injury to one person to another
✔✔Examples of Tort - ✔✔Battery, invasion of privacy, defamation of character
✔✔Defamation of character by written statement is considered - ✔✔libel
✔✔Consists of injury to another person's reputation , name or character through spoken
(slander) or written (libel) - ✔✔Defamation of character
✔✔unpriveleged touching - ✔✔Battery
✔✔The release of medical records with out the patient's knowledge or permission -
✔✔Invasion of privacy
✔✔Good Samaritan Law - ✔✔Rendering first aid within the scope of knowledge by a
health care worker with out fear of being sued for negligence
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔regulates and maintains body temperature
✔✔Functions necessary for life - ✔✔heart function, blood pressure, respiration,
temperature
, ✔✔Rectal Temperature range in celsius - ✔✔37.0 -38.1 C
✔✔Oral temperature range in Fahrenheit - ✔✔97.6-99.6 F
✔✔Axillary temperature range in celsius - ✔✔35.9-37.0C
✔✔Tympanic temperature range in F and C - ✔✔98.6 F and 37C
✔✔Intermittent fever - ✔✔Fluctuating fever that returns to or below the baseline then
rises again
✔✔Remittent Fever - ✔✔Fluctuating, remains elevated and does not return to baseline
✔✔Continuous Fever - ✔✔remains constant above baseline, does not flucuate
✔✔Rectal temperature is not taken from the following patients - ✔✔Patients with heart
disease
✔✔WHen taking axillary temerature how long should it be taken - ✔✔5-10 mins or as
required by office policy
✔✔Pulse is taken where and how long - ✔✔radial for 30sec x2, if tachy or brady take it
1 minute
✔✔Explain blood pressure - ✔✔measurement of amount of force blood excertes on
peripheral artery walls
✔✔BP cuffs too short and narrow can give false reading of what? - ✔✔Hypertension
✔✔Taking BP hearing two consecutive beats gives which reading - ✔✔Systolic
✔✔Patient laying on back with knees flexed, soles of feet on bed - ✔✔Dorsal
recumbant
✔✔This position is used to promote drainage or ease of breathing - ✔✔Fowler's
✔✔This position is used for examination of the pelvic organs - ✔✔Dorsal Lithotomy
✔✔Prone position is used for - ✔✔used to examine back and spine
✔✔patient lays on his/her stomach with head turned to one side for comfort - ✔✔prone
position
