AMCA Exam Test Practice Questions with correct Answers

A physician is not required to report: - ANSWER Stroke A crime punishable by a fine or imprisonment for less than a year is - ANSWER Misdemeanor Professional negligence is also called - ANSWER Malpractice What should an assistive person keep in mind during their daily routine in medicine - ANSWER Confidentiality When is it permissible to release information about a patient record - ANSWER When the court requests it by means of a subpoena Under what circumstance is it permissible to release information from a patient's records - ANSWER When patient signs a consent form Potential infectious body fluid doesn't include - ANSWER Sweat Cleaning technique is another name for - ANSWER Medical asespsis Instruments that penetrate a patient's skin should be - ANSWER Sterile Instruments that come in contact with only a patient's mucous membrane should be - ANSWER Disinfected Instruments that touch only the healthy intact skin should be - ANSWER Sanitized Anything that posseses a risk to the human body or a living organism is called a - ANSWER Biohazard OSHA standard requires - ANSWER A written schedule for cleaning Treating all human blood as if it were infectious is called - ANSWER Universal precautions Standard precautions are - ANSWER Used mainly in hospitals What liquid is used in an autoclave to sterilize instruments - ANSWER Distilled water Six C's - ANSWER Client words What suture is the largest - ANSWER 0-0 The position in which the patient is lying flat on their back is known as - ANSWER Supine What position is used for prrineal and vaginal area examination - ANSWER Lithotomy What position requires the examination table to be raised in the middle both ends pointing down - ANSWER Proctological Surgical procedures that require less than one day to perform with no over night stay is - ANSWER Outpatient surgery What wouldn't be the MA's responsibility in the physical preparing of the patient - ANSWER Obtaining and prescribing medication that are not expired In what position is used to examine the rectum, where the patient lies on the left side with the left leg sightly flexed - ANSWER Sims' What thermometer is considered the most accurate indicator of the body temp. - ANSWER Rectal The artery most common used for taking pulse - ANSWER Radial A patient's temp. was 96.9¤f, what is the temp. in ¤c - ANSWER 36.1¤c What is not a vital sign - ANSWER Weight What term means "difficulty breathing" - ANSWER Dyspnea When taking rectal temp. how long should the thermometer be left in the rectum - ANSWER 5 min The absence of respiration for periods lasting 15 < - ANSWER Apnea What area of the body is the popliteal pulse taken - ANSWER Knee What is included in a patient's vital signs - ANSWER Respiration What temperature is considered fatal - ANSWER 103.8¤f What route is involved in administering a drug by placing it under the patient's tongue and leaving it there until it dissolves? - ANSWER Sublingual What part of a prescription includes, patient name address date and the Rx symbol - ANSWER Superscription Sedative - ANSWER Barbituate Codeine is an example of what kind of drug - ANSWER Narcotic analgesic What is the most common route for administering parenteral medication (going into GI tract, non digestive system) - ANSWER Injection A prefilled syringe is called - ANSWER Cartridge What muscle is commonly used for an intramuscular injection - ANSWER Vastus lateralis (thigh) What is the most appropriate needle gauge for a subcutaneous injection - ANSWER 25g Medication applied in a patch form is called a - ANSWER Transdermal The needle gauges usually used for intravenous injections are - ANSWER 20-21g Doctor orders a dose of medication at 300mg, but the only available tablet is 50mg. How many tablets will the patient take - ANSWER 6 Doctor orders 120mg tab, the only available amount is 30mg. How many tablets constitute a dose? - ANSWER 4 The most commonly used size for insulin syringe is - ANSWER 100 units When a patient is vomiting, what route is the most aproprate to administer the drug? - ANSWER Rectaly A single order that is administered immediately and usually written for emergencies is known as - ANSWER STAT order Significant gaps in the quality of testing practices in physician's offices resulted in the recent development of - ANSWER Good laboratory practices Deceitful or false portrayal of facts by word of conduct is the definition of - ANSWER Fraud A procedure manual includes - ANSWER The purpose of procedures, the required equipment, revised dates A phlebotomist misidentified a patient's specimen for transfusion preparation. A possible misdiagnosis of blood type could cause the patients death. If the phlebotomists' actions result in injury, the wrongful act is - ANSWER Negligence What would be a QA procedure in a phlebotomy lab - ANSWER Checking needles fit blunt tips and small barbs An example of QA indicators are - ANSWER The contamination rate for BC will not exceed the national rate Unauthorized release of confidential patient information is called - ANSWER Invasion of privacy An example of negligence is when the phlebotomist - ANSWER Fails to report significant changes in a patient's condition Civil actions involve - ANSWER Legal proceedings between private party Drawing a patient's blood without his/her consent can result in - ANSWER Assault and battery charges A series of components that lead to infection are referred to as - ANSWER Chain of infection The pathogen responsibilities for cause of an infection is called the infectious - ANSWER Agent An individual who had little resistance to an infectious microbe is referred to as a susceptible - ANSWER Host When the chain of infection is broken - ANSWER Infection is prevented from happening The term used to deceive an infection that infects the entire body is - ANSWER Systematic What type of precaution should be used for someone who has pulmonary tuberculosis - ANSWER Airborne The abbreviation for the virus that causes AIDS is - ANSWER HIV A person who has recovered from a particular virus and had developed antibodies against that virus is said to be - ANSWER Immune What diseases involve a blood borne pathogen - ANSWER HepB, malaria, syphilis An example of a disease requiring droplet isolation is - ANSWER Pertussis A suffix is an element of a word that - ANSWER Follows the root word What word is used to describe the breakdown of red blood cells - ANSWER Erythrocytosis The balanced or "steady state" of the body - ANSWER Homeostasis Prefix meaning "outside" - ANSWER Exo- Which body organ is primarily affected in a person with pulmonary disease - ANSWER Lungs Hepatitis - ANSWER Liver inflammation The lab abbreviation PT stands for - ANSWER Prothrombin time The word root of the term oncologist means - ANSWER Tumor The word root of the medical term thoracic - ANSWER Thorac/o What term means cold - ANSWER Cry/o Which plane divides the body into equal portions - ANSWER Midsagittal When you are facing someone in normal anatomical position, at which body plane are you looking - ANSWER Frontal Which body plane divides the body into upper and lower portions - ANSWER Transverse The term"distal" means - ANSWER Farthest from the point of attachment The plantar surface of the foot is - ANSWER Sole or bottom An example of a dorsal Cavity - ANSWER Spinal cavity The heart and lung are located in the_______ cavity - ANSWER Thoracic The skeletal system produces - ANSWER Blood cells Skeletal system structure includes - ANSWER Phalanges Wasting or decreasing in size of muscle because of inactivity is called - ANSWER Atrophy The integumentary system produces - ANSWER Melanin A nervous system disorder - ANSWER Encephalitis The heat is surrounded by this fluid-filed sac called - ANSWER Pericardium The middle layer of the heat is called - ANSWER Myocardium How many chambers does the heart have - ANSWER 4 The heart chamber delivers oxygen - rich blood to ascending aorta - ANSWER Left ventricle The heart chamber receives blood from the systemic system - ANSWER Right atrium