MA Apprenticeship Course Final

1) Advance directives include directions regarding

2) Changing the telephone to the night message, preparing the bank deposit for the day, and backing up computer files are all part of:

3) The waiting room should be set up to include all of the following except:

4) True or False: In a Solo Practice, medical assistants are usually responsible for aspects of both clinical and administrative support.

5) The three basic areas of the physician’s office include all of the following except:

6) True or False: Children under the age of 18 can give informed consent.

7) Handwashing should be performed by:

8) The purpose of the medical record is to provide:

9) General guidelines that the medical assistant should follow when measuring the vital signs include the following:

10) Body temperature may be taken in the mouth, rectum, or:

11) True or False: Fever and strong emotional states such as anger and crying, do not affect or increase heat production in the body.

12) True or False: A non-contact temporal artery thermometer poses the lowest risk of cross-contamination among the various types of thermometers

13) Pulse sites of the body include all of the following except:

14) Tachycardia is a heart rate which is above:

15) The term tachypnea refers to breathing which is:

16) According to the American Heart Association (AHA), a normal healthy blood pressure for an adult is a reading of:

17) Antepartum refers to what part of the pregnancy?

18) An adenocarcinoma is a cancerous tumor of a/an:

19) Lateral refers to the:

20) The word part axill/o refers to the 

21) Risk factors for hypertension include all of the following except: 

22) True or False: Blood pressure is measured with a sphygmomanometer which is a device that measures the pressure of blood within an artery.

23) Hematuria is blood in the: 

24) The word part ortho refers to:

25) True or False: The Medical Assistant should always offer medical advice to the patient.

26) The first priority of the medical assistant is:

27) Initially, medical assistants received their training:

28) True or False: The six primary administrative responsibilities of the medical assistant include all of the following duties:

1)  Scheduling appointments, both over the telephone and in person

2)  Maintaining the medical record and filing records and reports, including scanning paper documents, and keeping track of laboratory and diagnostic test results

3) Generating insurance claims and patient bills, accepting and documenting payments, totaling and entering charges, coding the procedures and/or diagnostic tests performed, and entering payments received

4) Preparing bank deposits and recording the deposits in the office’s checkbook

5) Paying bills (rent, mortgage, electricity, lease payments on equipment, staff salaries, and liability and malpractice insurance) and maintaining records of these and other bills owed by the office

6) Entering health registry data into the medical record to monitor patient progress by the use of disease-specific registries and tools in the patient-centered medical home

29) Which is not a duty of the medical assistant, when preparing patients for examination? 

30) Disarming the alarm, unlocking the door, and turning on office equipment is all part of: 

31) True or False: It is the medical assistant’s responsibility to prepare the patient for the physical examination.

32) Common places of employment for medical assistants include all of the following except:

33) When a patient is standing at the registration desk, the medical assistant should:

34) The eight clinical responsibilities of the medical assistant include all of the following except:

35) Coughing, sneezing, contaminated hands, and contaminated equipment may be a means of:

36) Before putting on sterile gloves, the medical assistant should: 

37) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is responsible for the study of the transmission and control of: 

38) Records of employee OSHA training must include:

39) A postoperative information packet should include:

40) When the provider examines the skin of the entire body, including the scalp, he/she is performing a:

41) All of the following are considered physiological needs of a patient except:

42) Nutrients provide a:

43) When practicing under an implied contract, the provider has an obligation to fulfill all of the following except:

44) The region of communication between two neurons is the:

45) The medical assistant must maintain current CPR certification which must be renewed every:

46) To examine and review a group of patient charts is known as a/an:

47) Professional behavior is based on:

48) When documenting the material covered, the date of the session and the patient’s response to the information is documentation of a/an:

49) Patient information may be disclosed in all of the following circumstances without authorization except for:

50) When coding diagnosis or procedure codes, the code should be obtained from the:

51) True or False: There can be no relative degrees of sterility—An item is either sterile or not sterile.

52) The Ishihara Color Vision Test is used to determine:

53) The muscular system performs all of the following functions except:

54) The purpose of measuring the pulse is to establish the patient’s baseline pulse rate and to assess the pulse rate after: