AMCA MEDICAL ASSISTANT LATEST UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔PPE requirement according to OSHA - ✔✔Medical personnel must wear PPE when
they have contact with Blood.
✔✔Substance tested for pregnancy - ✔✔HCG hormone.
✔✔Instructions for urine specimen collection for culture - ✔✔Void a specimen
midstream in a sterile cup.
✔✔pH of urine after standing for more than 1 hour - ✔✔Alkaline.
✔✔pH range for normal urine - ✔✔4.5 to 8.0.
✔✔Urine color for a patient drinking ten or more 8-oz glasses of water - ✔✔Straw.
✔✔Container type for bacterial culture urine collection - ✔✔Sterile container.
✔✔Freshly disinfected - ✔✔A state indicating that an item has been cleaned and
treated to eliminate pathogens.
✔✔Sterile - ✔✔Free from all living microorganisms.
✔✔Routine analysis of urine - ✔✔Made up of visual, culture, reagent, microscopic,
chemical, and physical examinations.
✔✔Unreliable pH sample prevention - ✔✔The urine specimen should be tested within 1
hour of collection.
, ✔✔Vacuum tube top color for cultures - ✔✔Yellow indicates that the blood specimen
will be used for cultures.
✔✔Centrifuge placement for urine specimen - ✔✔An identical tube containing water
should be placed directly opposite the tube containing the urine specimen.
✔✔Bioethics - ✔✔Concerned with moral controversy over biomedical technology.
✔✔Phlebotomy needle assembly bracing - ✔✔The principal reason is to prevent excess
needle movement.
✔✔Positive ketones in urine - ✔✔May indicate diabetes mellitus.
✔✔Measure of acidity or alkalinity of urine - ✔✔pH.
✔✔Inappropriate capillary puncture step - ✔✔Placing a tourniquet around the finger.
✔✔Capillary blood sample dilution reason - ✔✔If the finger is squeezed excessively.
✔✔Common micropuncture site on an adult - ✔✔Ring finger.
✔✔Erythrocytes transport requirement - ✔✔Erythrocytes need hemoglobin to transport
oxygen and carbon dioxide.
✔✔Reason NOT to perform a hemoglobin test - ✔✔To monitor dehydration.
✔✔Next step after handwashing and PPE - ✔✔Identify the patient.
✔✔Lowering bruising risk after venipuncture - ✔✔To be determined.
✔✔Heating pad application - ✔✔Apply a heating pad to the puncture site and have the
patient bend his or her arm to keep it in place.
✔✔Pressure application - ✔✔Apply pressure to the puncture site.
✔✔Tourniquet duration - ✔✔Keep the tourniquet in place for one full minute during the
procedure.
✔✔Alcohol wipe use - ✔✔Wipe the puncture site with an alcohol wipe.
✔✔Hematoma response - ✔✔Do NOT complete the collection of the specimen when a
hematoma is forming.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔PPE requirement according to OSHA - ✔✔Medical personnel must wear PPE when
they have contact with Blood.
✔✔Substance tested for pregnancy - ✔✔HCG hormone.
✔✔Instructions for urine specimen collection for culture - ✔✔Void a specimen
midstream in a sterile cup.
✔✔pH of urine after standing for more than 1 hour - ✔✔Alkaline.
✔✔pH range for normal urine - ✔✔4.5 to 8.0.
✔✔Urine color for a patient drinking ten or more 8-oz glasses of water - ✔✔Straw.
✔✔Container type for bacterial culture urine collection - ✔✔Sterile container.
✔✔Freshly disinfected - ✔✔A state indicating that an item has been cleaned and
treated to eliminate pathogens.
✔✔Sterile - ✔✔Free from all living microorganisms.
✔✔Routine analysis of urine - ✔✔Made up of visual, culture, reagent, microscopic,
chemical, and physical examinations.
✔✔Unreliable pH sample prevention - ✔✔The urine specimen should be tested within 1
hour of collection.
, ✔✔Vacuum tube top color for cultures - ✔✔Yellow indicates that the blood specimen
will be used for cultures.
✔✔Centrifuge placement for urine specimen - ✔✔An identical tube containing water
should be placed directly opposite the tube containing the urine specimen.
✔✔Bioethics - ✔✔Concerned with moral controversy over biomedical technology.
✔✔Phlebotomy needle assembly bracing - ✔✔The principal reason is to prevent excess
needle movement.
✔✔Positive ketones in urine - ✔✔May indicate diabetes mellitus.
✔✔Measure of acidity or alkalinity of urine - ✔✔pH.
✔✔Inappropriate capillary puncture step - ✔✔Placing a tourniquet around the finger.
✔✔Capillary blood sample dilution reason - ✔✔If the finger is squeezed excessively.
✔✔Common micropuncture site on an adult - ✔✔Ring finger.
✔✔Erythrocytes transport requirement - ✔✔Erythrocytes need hemoglobin to transport
oxygen and carbon dioxide.
✔✔Reason NOT to perform a hemoglobin test - ✔✔To monitor dehydration.
✔✔Next step after handwashing and PPE - ✔✔Identify the patient.
✔✔Lowering bruising risk after venipuncture - ✔✔To be determined.
✔✔Heating pad application - ✔✔Apply a heating pad to the puncture site and have the
patient bend his or her arm to keep it in place.
✔✔Pressure application - ✔✔Apply pressure to the puncture site.
✔✔Tourniquet duration - ✔✔Keep the tourniquet in place for one full minute during the
procedure.
✔✔Alcohol wipe use - ✔✔Wipe the puncture site with an alcohol wipe.
✔✔Hematoma response - ✔✔Do NOT complete the collection of the specimen when a
hematoma is forming.
