AMCA PCT EXAM QUESTIONS || WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS.
A stroke correct answers A physician is required to report all of the following except?
A misdemeanor correct answers A crime punishable by a fine or imprisonment for LESS than a
year is known as?
Malpractice correct answers Professional Negligence is called?
Confidentiality correct answers What is important for assistive personnel to keep in mind when
they go throughout their daily medical routine?
When a court requests it by means of a subpoena correct answers What is the situation when it is
permissible to release information from a pt's records?
When the patient signs a release correct answers Under what circumstance is it permissible to
release information from a pt's records?
Sweat correct answers What body fluid is not infectious?
medical asepsis correct answers Cleaning techniques are also referred as to?
Disinfected correct answers Instruments that come into contact only with the pt's mucous
membranes should be?
sanitized correct answers Instruments that touch ONLY healthy intact skin should be?
A bio-hazard correct answers Anything that poses a risk to the human body or a living organism
is called what?
A written schedule for cleaning correct answers OSHA standards require what?
Universal Precautions correct answers Treating human blood as if it were infectious is known as?
Mainly used in hospitals correct answers Standard precautions are mainly used where?
Distilled water correct answers What liquid is used in an autoclave to sterilize instruments and
supplies?
Clients words correct answers Which of the following is one of the 6 C's of charting?
0-0 correct answers What is the thickest suture size?
Supine correct answers What position is it called when the pt is laying flat on their back?
, Lithotomy correct answers What position is used when used for peritoneal and vaginal
examination?
Proctological correct answers What position requires the examination table to be raised in the
middle with both ends down?
Outpatient surgery correct answers Surgical procedures that require less than a day to preform
with no overnight stay for the patient is called?
Obtaining and prescribing medications that are not expired correct answers What is not a
responsibility of a medical assistant in the physical preparation of the pt except?
Sims position correct answers What position is used for the examination of the rectum when the
pt lies on their left side slightly flexed?
Rectal correct answers What site is the most accurate when taking a temperature?
Radial correct answers The artery most commonly used for taking a pt's pulse is where?
36.1 C correct answers You have taken a pt's temperature and recorded as 96.9 F. Later the
physician asks you to convert the measurement to Celsius. What is the temp?
Weight correct answers What is not considered a vital sign?
Dyspnea correct answers What is the word for difficulty of breathing?
30 seconds correct answers When a temperature is taken rectally, how long should it be left in?
Apnea correct answers The absence of respirations that last longer than 15 seconds is called
what?
Knee correct answers Which of the following areas of the body is the site at which to detect the
popliteal pulse?
Respiration rate correct answers What is included in a pt's vital signs?
103.8 F correct answers What temperature is most likely to be fatal?
Sublingual route correct answers What route is involved in administering a drug by placing it
under the pt's tongue and leaving it there until it dissolves?
Supercription correct answers What part of the subscription contains the pt's name, address, date,
and symbol RX?
Barbituate correct answers What is a sedative?
CORRECT ANSWERS.
A stroke correct answers A physician is required to report all of the following except?
A misdemeanor correct answers A crime punishable by a fine or imprisonment for LESS than a
year is known as?
Malpractice correct answers Professional Negligence is called?
Confidentiality correct answers What is important for assistive personnel to keep in mind when
they go throughout their daily medical routine?
When a court requests it by means of a subpoena correct answers What is the situation when it is
permissible to release information from a pt's records?
When the patient signs a release correct answers Under what circumstance is it permissible to
release information from a pt's records?
Sweat correct answers What body fluid is not infectious?
medical asepsis correct answers Cleaning techniques are also referred as to?
Disinfected correct answers Instruments that come into contact only with the pt's mucous
membranes should be?
sanitized correct answers Instruments that touch ONLY healthy intact skin should be?
A bio-hazard correct answers Anything that poses a risk to the human body or a living organism
is called what?
A written schedule for cleaning correct answers OSHA standards require what?
Universal Precautions correct answers Treating human blood as if it were infectious is known as?
Mainly used in hospitals correct answers Standard precautions are mainly used where?
Distilled water correct answers What liquid is used in an autoclave to sterilize instruments and
supplies?
Clients words correct answers Which of the following is one of the 6 C's of charting?
0-0 correct answers What is the thickest suture size?
Supine correct answers What position is it called when the pt is laying flat on their back?
, Lithotomy correct answers What position is used when used for peritoneal and vaginal
examination?
Proctological correct answers What position requires the examination table to be raised in the
middle with both ends down?
Outpatient surgery correct answers Surgical procedures that require less than a day to preform
with no overnight stay for the patient is called?
Obtaining and prescribing medications that are not expired correct answers What is not a
responsibility of a medical assistant in the physical preparation of the pt except?
Sims position correct answers What position is used for the examination of the rectum when the
pt lies on their left side slightly flexed?
Rectal correct answers What site is the most accurate when taking a temperature?
Radial correct answers The artery most commonly used for taking a pt's pulse is where?
36.1 C correct answers You have taken a pt's temperature and recorded as 96.9 F. Later the
physician asks you to convert the measurement to Celsius. What is the temp?
Weight correct answers What is not considered a vital sign?
Dyspnea correct answers What is the word for difficulty of breathing?
30 seconds correct answers When a temperature is taken rectally, how long should it be left in?
Apnea correct answers The absence of respirations that last longer than 15 seconds is called
what?
Knee correct answers Which of the following areas of the body is the site at which to detect the
popliteal pulse?
Respiration rate correct answers What is included in a pt's vital signs?
103.8 F correct answers What temperature is most likely to be fatal?
Sublingual route correct answers What route is involved in administering a drug by placing it
under the pt's tongue and leaving it there until it dissolves?
Supercription correct answers What part of the subscription contains the pt's name, address, date,
and symbol RX?
Barbituate correct answers What is a sedative?
