PA Practice: Exam 1 Questions With Complete Solutions

RUTH BALLWEG, MPA, PA-C EMERITUS correct answer: one of the first formally trained PAs in southern Oregon; editor and contributor to first American textbook written on PA training; served as director of MEDEX; past president of PAEA; 2012- AAPA Award of Achievement; 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from PAEA COL JOHN BALSER, SP, PA-C, MPAS correct answer: first PA to command a forward surgical team; first to take the oath of acceptance as the PA consultant in a combat zone; first to be selected as Corps Chief KAREN BASS, BA, PA correct answer: first PA elected to the House of Representatives (2010); community activist; 1990 Community Coalition to provide preventative community centered solutions to root causes of crime, addiction, and violence E. HARVEY ESTES, JR., MD correct answer: wrote articles, chaired or served on advisory committees and traveled to promote the concept of physician assistants ; first person to be awarded AAPA Stead Award of Achievement LORETTA C. FORD, ED.D., RN, PNP, FAAN, FAANP correct answer: worked in collaboration with Henry Silver at University of Colorado to found the first NP program CHARLES L. HUDSON, MD- correct answer: one of the first physicians to suggest that non-physician clinical support personnel be trained and used to help healthcare provider shortage; in 1961 proposed idea of PAs THELMA M. INGLES, RN, MA correct answer: pioneered the expansion of nursing roles in the clinical care of patients; attempted to start a clinical nursing specialist masters program with Dr. Stead but denied accreditation JOHN WEBSTER KIRKLIN, MD correct answer: first formal educational program to train surgeon assistants; pioneer in development of cardiac surgery RADM MICHAEL R. MILNER, DH.SC, PA-C correct answer: one of the highest ranking PAs in any uniformed service; commissioned in the United States Public Health Service in 1989; advocated for the increased use of PAs to improve healthy of Native Americans and Alaska NAtives in rural and underserved tribal clinics HU CRIM MYERS, MD correct answer: established first baccalaureate program for PAs at Alderson-Broaddus College in WV in 1968 JOYCE NICHOLS, PA-C correct answer: first woman to be formally educated as a PA; first African American woman to practice as a PA; first minority to serve on AAPA Board of directors; matriarch and role model for AA and other minorities in PA profession EDMUND D. PELLEGRINO, MD, MACP correct answer: Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the National Board of Medical Examiners; oversaw the development of the first national certification exam for PAs THOMAS E. PIEMME, MD correct answer: involved in helping the AAPA and APAP establish joint office in DC; helped develop national certification process for PAs; helped establish NCCPA to oversee certification process; second president of APAP/PAEA