verified answers
1 kg = ? lbs Ans✓✓✓ 2.2 lbs
ACA and its three goals Ans✓✓✓ Affordable Care Act, expand healthcare
coverage, shift goal from treatment to prevention, reduce costs and increase
efficiency.
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Ans✓✓✓ An organization of healthcare
providers accountable for the quality, cost, and overall care of Medicare
beneficiaries who are assigned and enrolled in the traditional fee-for-service
program
active listening Ans✓✓✓ paying close attention to what someone is saying and
communicating
administer glucose for Ans✓✓✓ insulin shock
administer insulin for Ans✓✓✓ diabetic coma
Adult respiratory rate Ans✓✓✓ 12-20
Advanced Beneficiary Notice (ABN) Ans✓✓✓ document given to medicare
beneficiaries indicating the services medicare is unlikely to pay for
AED Ans✓✓✓ automated external defibrillator
,Affordable Care Act (ACA) Ans✓✓✓ law passed in 2010 to expand access to
insurance, address cost reduction and affordability, improve the quality of
healthcare, and introduce the Patient's Bill of Rights
alphabetic filing Ans✓✓✓ A traditional system for patient records in providers'
offices and the most widely used
Files are arranged by last name, first name and middle initial
Ampule Ans✓✓✓ A small sealed glass container that holds a single dose of
medication.
Analytical communicator Ans✓✓✓ prefers to work with real numbers, facts, and
data, and places very little emphasis on feelings or emotions
Anaphylaxis Ans✓✓✓ a severe response to an allergen in which the symptoms
develop quickly, and without help, the patient can die within a few minutes.
Anorexia vs. Bulimia Ans✓✓✓ Major difference between two conditions is
control. Anorexic is usually already below healthy weight, ,still perceives own
weight is unacceptable, attempts to lower weight further by limiting food intake.
Bulimic has no sense of control over eating habits. Eat excessively and then
attempt to overcompensate for excessive food intake.
anthropometric measurements Ans✓✓✓ Measures of height, weight, and
skinfold thickness to evaluate muscle atrophy.
aphasic Ans✓✓✓ unable to speak
, Asset vs. Liability Ans✓✓✓ everything you own vs. what you owe(bills).
average adult blood pressure Ans✓✓✓ 100/60-140/80
average childs blood pressure Ans✓✓✓ 60/30-100/80
axillary and rectal temperatures are usually ____ then average Ans✓✓✓ axillary
is usually 1 degree lower while rectal is usually 1 degree higher.
BMI formula Ans✓✓✓ weight (kg) / height (m^2)
or
*[weight (lbs) / height (in^2)] x 703*
Can controlled substances be sent to the pharmacy? Ans✓✓✓ no, the script has
to be shown by the pt at the pharmacy.
CHEDDAR Ans✓✓✓ chief complaint, history of present illness examination,
details, drugs and dosages, assessment, return visit information or referral.
Cheif Complaint Ans✓✓✓ brief statement describing they symptom, problem,
diagnosis, or condition that is the reason a patient seeks medical care.