NWCA STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH ALL CORRECT ANSWERS 2025 SOLUTION AID PASS

NWCA STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH ALL CORRECT ANSWERS 2025 SOLUTION AID PASS By providing patients with quality care, ensuring accurate and timely payment for the services furnished, mitigating malpractice risks, and helping healthcare providers evaluate and plan the patient's treatment and maintain the continuum of care. How are medical records critical to a patients care? state Who establishes the scope of practice guidelines for a CMA? sphygmomanometer What is used to take blood pressure? otoscope What is used to examine ears? To prioritize or sort the patients for care and treatment based on the urgency of their need for care. Results in the best outcome for the greatest number of people. The function of triage and why is it so important? ophthalmoscope What is used to examine eyes? stethoscope What is used to listen to your heart, lungs and bowl sounds? -If not present in the office go straight to Emergency Care. - Call EMS on another line keep caller on phone to get additional info. - If in office take to treatment room immediately and doctor notified and begin take vital signs and symptoms. Actions to take if a patient has chest pain or difficulty breathing? soiled side folding inside Know how to discard exam paper? A condition in which your immune system mistakenly attacks your body. Normally guards against germs like bacteria and viruses. When it senses these foreign invaders, it sends out an army of fighter cells to attack them. Normally, the immune system can tell the difference between foreign cells and your own cells. In an autoimmune disease, the immune system mistakes part of your body, like your joints or skin, as foreign. It releases proteins called autoantibodies that attack healthy cells. How does an autoimmune disease affect your body? What Do the body's cells do? Type 1 the pancreas does not produce any insulin. Type 2 the pancreas still produces a little insulin but body is resistant. Difference between Type 1 diabetes vs Type 11 diabetes? Achieve total loss of sensation in the body by inducing loss of consciousness. How is a general anesthetic used? Provides a temporary loss of sensation from specific areas of the body. How is local anesthetic used? 97.6 - 99.6 degrees F Normal range for body temperature? 60-100 bpm Normal range for adult pulse? 120/80 Normal range for blood pressure? systolic pressure Name for the highest point of blood pressure? dyastolic pressure Name for the lowest point of blood pressure? tachy- rapid -pnea breathing It causes less tissue damage. Why is a swaged needle is used to sew up a laceration? 8-12 hours Fasting for a test requires how many hours of NPO (nothing by mouth) edema What is fluid accumulating in one area of the body and causes swelling called? Hemoglobin What is a substance that carries oxygen and is found i RBC? erythrocytes What is another name for RBC? The hemoglobin count will be falsely low If RBC are destroyed or hemolyzed during a blood draw what can occur? Bright red blood will squirt out, immediately terminate procedure and apply pressure to the site. Report to the supervisor immediately. If you hit an artery during a blood draw what will happen? Try a blood pressure cuff If you are unable to use a tourniquet on a person that has a large arm you should use what in its place? Once sufficient blood has been collected, release the tourniquet BEFORE withdrawing the needle. Some guidelines suggest removing the tourniquet as soon as blood flow is established, and always before it has been in place for two minutes or more. When do you release the tourniquet? - Position arm in a downward relaxed position -Warming the puncture site? -Use a vein finder What actions can you take to help draw blood from someone with difficult veins? -ID bracelet -patients verbal confirmation -requisition information Name three ways you can identify a patient? It covers and touches the wound. What does a dressing do? It secures the dressing in place, so it doesnt move or get dirty. What does a bandage do? angiogram What puts dye in blood vessels so diagnostic testing can be performed? cholecystography What is an x-ray examination of the gallbladder The eye not being tested must remain open. When performing a visual acuity test what is really important for the patient to do? Always allow the eye wash to drain to the outside of the eye When irrigating an eye you must? tricuspid valve and mitral valve What are the two heart value that open to allow the ventricles to fill with blood? -Epicardium - the outer layer. -Myocardium - the middle, muscular layer. -Endocardium - the inner layer. Name the three heart muscle layers? Myocardium What layer of heart muscle is damaged during a heart attack? myocardium infarction Heart attack is called MI superior vena and inferior vena cava What two veins deliver deoxygenated blood from the body to the heart? pulmonary veins What veins deliver oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart? 60-100 Rate of the pacemaker site in the SA node 40-60 Rate of the pacemaker site in the AV node 20-40 Rate of the pacemaker site in the ventricles systole and diastole Name the two cardiac cycles? Depolarization What electrical event occurs in cardiac cells and should results in muscle contraction? Repolarization recharging of the myocardial cell from a contracted state back to a resting state normal sinus rhythm A p-wave means the pacemaker site is the SA node and has a heart rate of 88 with a heart rate of 60-100 bpm that means that the rhythm is called what? Einthoven's triangle If you join leads I, II, III in a triangle its called? fourth intercoastal space Where is the V1 electrode located on the body? right sternal border Where is the AVL electrode located on the body? -An elevated ST segment during a stress test indicates a patients heart isnt getting enough