68W LPC 1 Exam Questions With Correct Answers

Individual Sick call slip form. May be used as a means of communication between medical personnel and the patients Commander. - Answer DD Form 689 Basic form used to document the chronological record of outpatient treatment. - Answer SF 600 Initial correction procedure for an entry error. - Answer Single line through information, write "error" and your initials. Access to medical information may be given to? - Answer The patient, patient care personnel, medical researchers and medical educators. Personnel not involved with the patients care or in medical research will not have access to information unless the following situations apply. - Answer Access required by court order, needed for hospital accreditation, authorized by the patient. Disclosure of medical information. - Answer Handled by patient administrator, all requests are done in writing except in emergency situations. Subjective Information - Answer Age, Sex, Race and first day of last menstrual period, history of illness, OPQRST, past medical, surgical and social history, last oral intake, AMPLE Referral to medical officer - Answer Refer all red flags Quarters - Answer Restricted to rest in patients place of domicile, includes freedom to move within their living space, to and from dfac and or medical facilities. May not perform any military duties, usually assigned for 72 hours. Bedrest - Answer Patient is restricted to their bed with allowances for travel to dining facility and latrine. May not perform any military duties. Commander - Answer Who has the authority to decide if a soldier should break their profile? Microorganism - Answer Microscopic living cells found almost everywhere in the environment. Pathogens - Answer microorganisms that cause disease Colonies - Answer As bacteria reproduce, they form groups of many millions of individual cells called? Spore forming bacteria - Answer Are resistant to the environment and can survive extreme conditions of light, drying and many chemicals.. Most difficult to control and destroy. Contagious Disease - Answer Diseases transmitted to many individuals quickly and easily. Hand Washing - Answer What is the single most useful and effective means of breaking the chain of infection and stop the spread of disease? Sterile - Answer Item is free of all microorganisms and spores Sterilization - Answer Destroys all microorganisms an spores by exposing articles to heat or to chemical disinfectants long enough to kill all microrganimsms and spores, i.e. autoclave (pressure steam _______) Airborne precautions - Answer Tiny microorganisms from evaporated droplets remain suspended in the air or are carried on dust particles and inhaled. Droplet precautions - Answer Microorganism are propelled through the air from an infected person who is sneezing, coughing, talking or being suctioned and deposited on the host's eyes, nose or mouth. Contact precautions - Answer Is the most frequent mode of disease transmission. Direct contact between a susceptible hosts body surface and an infected or colonized person. Drug resistant gastrointestinal, respiratory, skin and wound infections, hepatitis A, herpes simplex virus, and acute diarrhea. - Answer Diseases of contact transmission include? Neutropenic precautions - Answer Protection from the outside environment, others people's microorganisms kept away from the patient, for weakened immune response patients, diseases include burns, bone marrow transplants, HIV, chemotherapy or low resistance from another cause. 10-15 seconds up to 2 minute or longer, scrub in circular motion from fingertips to elbows - Answer Proper hand-washing incubation period - Answer First phase of infection when pathogen enters the body to the first appearance of the first symptoms of illness. Convalescent Stage - Answer Final stage of infection when acute symptoms of the infection subside and the person recovers. Virulence - Answer pathogens strength to cause a disease nosocomial infection - Answer patients can acquire this infection while in a health care facility Reasons for nosocomial infections - Answer Many potential reservoirs for growth, IV fluids, foods, biological materials, equipment. indications - Answer the reason the medication is being administered is guided by the conditions being treated Mechanism of Action - Answer certain responses expected in the body (how the drug works) physiological dependence - Answer the body develops a chemical need for a drug psychological dependence - Answer patient is convinced that they have a need for a drug 68W - Answer The safe and correct dispensing of medications remains with who? Even when directed by the supervising health care provider. Check with HCP - Answer If you have any doubts about the suitability of any medication for any patient who would you check with? Patient, Medication, Time, Route, Dose, Documentation - Answer Six rights of drug administration Repeat order to medical officer and verify medication 3 times (Before, during and after) Removal from storage area, preparing medication, returning to storage - Answer Right medication procedure to ensure patient is given the correct medicine 20 minutes following injection - Answer How long should you observe a patient for an allergic reaction after administering medication? Mild and Moderate allergic reactions - Answer involves a generalized body response that reaches a point and do not continue to get worse. S/S may persist for several hours but are not progressive and do not pose a threat to life.