Vet Assistant Final Exam Practice Questions and Answers (Expert Solutions)

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Vet Assistant Final Exam Practice Questions
and Answers (Expert Solutions)

Q: What is OHSA?

ANS 🗹🗹: It requires that all hospital staff are informed of all chemicals to which
hey may be exposed to while at work.


Q:
What is Ethics?

ANS 🗹🗹: The system of moral principles that determines appropriate behavior and
actions within a specific group.


Q:
What is the Veterinary Practice act?

ANS 🗹🗹: determines if who can practice veterinary medicine and surgery in each
state and under which conditions.


Q:
What is PPE?

ANS 🗹🗹: Personal Protective Equipment


Q:
What is MSDS?

ANS 🗹🗹: Material Data Safety Sheets


Q:
What is the AVMA?

ANS 🗹🗹: the organization that acts as the collective voice of the veterinary
profession.


Q:
What is SOP?

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ANS 🗹🗹: Standard Operating Procedure


Q:
What SOAP?

ANS 🗹🗹: Subjective Objective assessment plan


Q:
What does Polyphagia mean?

ANS 🗹🗹: excessive eating


Q:
What does Dysuria?

ANS 🗹🗹: Painful and difficult urination


Q:
What is a Laparotomy?

ANS 🗹🗹: a surgical incision into the abdomen


Q:
What is adduction?

ANS 🗹🗹: movement of the limb toward the midline.


Q:
What is Esophagpscopy?

ANS 🗹🗹: Examination of the esophagus using and endoscope.


Q:
What is a Cystocentesis?

ANS 🗹🗹: a puncture to the baldder with a needle to remove urine.


Q:
What is the Ventral side of an animal?

ANS 🗹🗹: the direction going up through the abdomen.