PCT Practice Exam Questions with Verified Answers Graded A
A patient care technician is preparing to perform visible, and there is drainage from the wound.
documentation in a patients electronic health
record. Which of the following is an example of
appropriate documentation by the technician?
A.) the technician on the previous shift reports Which of the following tubes should be collected
giving the patient a bath at 1600. first for dermal samples?
B.) The patient has a large, dark bowel A.) lavender top
movement at 1100. B.) green top
C.) The Patient will receive an enema at 1700. C.) red top
D.) The patient is upset because the nurse from D.) light blue top - ANSWER -A.) lavender
the previous shift forgot to provide breakfast. - top
ANSWER -B.) The patient has a large, dark
brown bowel movement at 1100.
A patient care technician is transferring a patient
from a bed to a wheelchair using a mechanical lift
Which of the following EKG findings differentiates with a sling. As the patient is being transferred
accelerated idioventricular rhythm from junctional the technician should place him in which of the
rhythm? following position?
A.) Accelerated idioventricular rhythm has P A.) Sims
wave. B.) Fowlers
B.) The ventricular rate in accelerated C.) Lithotomy
idioventricular rhythm is slower than junctional D.) Trendelenburg - ANSWER -B.) Fowler's
rhythm.
C.) junctional rhythm has P waves
D.) accelerated idioventricular rhythm has wide
QRS complexes. - ANSWER -D.) A patient care technician is performing a routine
Accelerated idioventricular rhythm has wide QRS venipuncture for a patient who becomes pallid
complexes. and diaphoretic. Which of the following conditions
is this patient most likely to experience?
A.) Syncope
B.) Seizure
A patient care technician is caring for a patient C.) Nausea
whose has a stage 3 pressure ulcer. Which of D.) Shock - ANSWER -A.) Syncope
the following manifestations should the
technician expect?
A.) The area forms a blister, and the epidermis
peels away or cracks open A patient care technician is assisting a nurse to
B.) The subcutaneous fat is visible, and there is apply a hand-wrist immobility splint for a patient
drainage from the wound. who has left-sided paralysis due to a stroke. The
C.) The area appears as reddened skin that does technician should identify that the splint will
not return to its initial color after pressure is secure the patients hand and write in which of the
removed. following positions?
D.) The damaged tissue extends all the way A.) wrist in slight dorsiflexion
through the tissues to the muscle. - B.) fingers in a extended position
ANSWER -B.) The subcutaneous fat is C.) fingers rotated slightly in an external position
, PCT Practice Exam Questions with Verified Answers Graded A
D.) thumb kept in close proximity to the index 100 mg/dL
finger - ANSWER -A.) wrist in slight D.) a patient who has a blood glucose level of
dorsiflexion 130 mg/dL - ANSWER -A.) a patient who
has a blood glucose level of 190 mg/dL
A patient care technician recently attended a
seminar about hospice car. Which of the A patient care technician is providing palliative
following statements by the technician indicates care to a patient. The patients family expresses
an understanding of hospice care? feelings of anger and hopelessness. Which of the
A.) "the cost of hospice care is reimbursed by following actions should the technician take?
Medicare or Medicaid" A.) explain that anger is the first coping
B.) "many hospice agencies do not require mechanism everyone experience during grief.
patients to have a primary caregiver" B.) refer the family to the charge nurse
C.) "an immediate family member must accept C.) recommend that the patient talk to social
responsibility for the patients care" services
D.) "hospice care covers curative therapies D.) Listen when the family is ready to talk -
prescribed by the health care provider" - ANSWER -D.) Listen when the family is
ANSWER -A.) "the cost of hospice care is ready to talk
reimbursed by Medicare or Medicaid"
A patient care technician is performing CPR for n
A patient care technician is preparing a adult patient. Which of the following actions
peripheral blood smear on a slide. Which of the should the technician take?
following actions should the technician take? A.) check for a pulse at the patients radial artery
A.) press down on the spreader slide to fix the site
cells on the lower slide B.) give the patient rescue breaths that have a 3-
B.) Apply the spreader slide to the lower slide at second duration
a 60 degree angle C.) depress 5 cm (2 in) into the patients chest
C.) verify that the smear covers about three- while performing compressions
quarters of the slide D.) perform 80 to 90 compressions per min -
D.) apply blood to the clear portion of the slide - ANSWER -C.) depress 5 cm (2 in) into the
ANSWER -C.) verify that the smear covers patients chest while performing compressions
about three-quarters of the slide
A patient care technician observes a nurse
A patient care technician is caring for four administering an influenza vaccine to a patient.
patients. Which of the following should the The technician should identify that receiving an
technician report to the nurse? influenza vaccine breaks which of the following
A.) a patient who has a blood glucose level of links in the chain of infection?
190 mg/dL A.) susceptible host
B.) a patient who has a blood glucose level of 90 B.) portal of entry
mg/dL C.) infectious agent
C.) a patient who has a blood glucose level of D.) method of transmission - ANSWER -A.)
A patient care technician is preparing to perform visible, and there is drainage from the wound.
documentation in a patients electronic health
record. Which of the following is an example of
appropriate documentation by the technician?
A.) the technician on the previous shift reports Which of the following tubes should be collected
giving the patient a bath at 1600. first for dermal samples?
B.) The patient has a large, dark bowel A.) lavender top
movement at 1100. B.) green top
C.) The Patient will receive an enema at 1700. C.) red top
D.) The patient is upset because the nurse from D.) light blue top - ANSWER -A.) lavender
the previous shift forgot to provide breakfast. - top
ANSWER -B.) The patient has a large, dark
brown bowel movement at 1100.
A patient care technician is transferring a patient
from a bed to a wheelchair using a mechanical lift
Which of the following EKG findings differentiates with a sling. As the patient is being transferred
accelerated idioventricular rhythm from junctional the technician should place him in which of the
rhythm? following position?
A.) Accelerated idioventricular rhythm has P A.) Sims
wave. B.) Fowlers
B.) The ventricular rate in accelerated C.) Lithotomy
idioventricular rhythm is slower than junctional D.) Trendelenburg - ANSWER -B.) Fowler's
rhythm.
C.) junctional rhythm has P waves
D.) accelerated idioventricular rhythm has wide
QRS complexes. - ANSWER -D.) A patient care technician is performing a routine
Accelerated idioventricular rhythm has wide QRS venipuncture for a patient who becomes pallid
complexes. and diaphoretic. Which of the following conditions
is this patient most likely to experience?
A.) Syncope
B.) Seizure
A patient care technician is caring for a patient C.) Nausea
whose has a stage 3 pressure ulcer. Which of D.) Shock - ANSWER -A.) Syncope
the following manifestations should the
technician expect?
A.) The area forms a blister, and the epidermis
peels away or cracks open A patient care technician is assisting a nurse to
B.) The subcutaneous fat is visible, and there is apply a hand-wrist immobility splint for a patient
drainage from the wound. who has left-sided paralysis due to a stroke. The
C.) The area appears as reddened skin that does technician should identify that the splint will
not return to its initial color after pressure is secure the patients hand and write in which of the
removed. following positions?
D.) The damaged tissue extends all the way A.) wrist in slight dorsiflexion
through the tissues to the muscle. - B.) fingers in a extended position
ANSWER -B.) The subcutaneous fat is C.) fingers rotated slightly in an external position
, PCT Practice Exam Questions with Verified Answers Graded A
D.) thumb kept in close proximity to the index 100 mg/dL
finger - ANSWER -A.) wrist in slight D.) a patient who has a blood glucose level of
dorsiflexion 130 mg/dL - ANSWER -A.) a patient who
has a blood glucose level of 190 mg/dL
A patient care technician recently attended a
seminar about hospice car. Which of the A patient care technician is providing palliative
following statements by the technician indicates care to a patient. The patients family expresses
an understanding of hospice care? feelings of anger and hopelessness. Which of the
A.) "the cost of hospice care is reimbursed by following actions should the technician take?
Medicare or Medicaid" A.) explain that anger is the first coping
B.) "many hospice agencies do not require mechanism everyone experience during grief.
patients to have a primary caregiver" B.) refer the family to the charge nurse
C.) "an immediate family member must accept C.) recommend that the patient talk to social
responsibility for the patients care" services
D.) "hospice care covers curative therapies D.) Listen when the family is ready to talk -
prescribed by the health care provider" - ANSWER -D.) Listen when the family is
ANSWER -A.) "the cost of hospice care is ready to talk
reimbursed by Medicare or Medicaid"
A patient care technician is performing CPR for n
A patient care technician is preparing a adult patient. Which of the following actions
peripheral blood smear on a slide. Which of the should the technician take?
following actions should the technician take? A.) check for a pulse at the patients radial artery
A.) press down on the spreader slide to fix the site
cells on the lower slide B.) give the patient rescue breaths that have a 3-
B.) Apply the spreader slide to the lower slide at second duration
a 60 degree angle C.) depress 5 cm (2 in) into the patients chest
C.) verify that the smear covers about three- while performing compressions
quarters of the slide D.) perform 80 to 90 compressions per min -
D.) apply blood to the clear portion of the slide - ANSWER -C.) depress 5 cm (2 in) into the
ANSWER -C.) verify that the smear covers patients chest while performing compressions
about three-quarters of the slide
A patient care technician observes a nurse
A patient care technician is caring for four administering an influenza vaccine to a patient.
patients. Which of the following should the The technician should identify that receiving an
technician report to the nurse? influenza vaccine breaks which of the following
A.) a patient who has a blood glucose level of links in the chain of infection?
190 mg/dL A.) susceptible host
B.) a patient who has a blood glucose level of 90 B.) portal of entry
mg/dL C.) infectious agent
C.) a patient who has a blood glucose level of D.) method of transmission - ANSWER -A.)
