MA Apprenticeship Course Final Study Guide

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

Factors that may affect patient teaching may include all of the following except the:

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

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

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

Tachycardia is a heart rate which is above:

The term tachypnea refers to breathing which is:

True or False: Children under the age of 18 are able to give informed consent. 

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

Antepartum refers to what part of the pregnancy?

An adenocarcinoma is a cancerous tumor of a/an:

The word part axill/o refers to the:

Risk factors for hypertension include all of the following except:

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

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

Advance directives include directions regarding:

Hematuria is blood in the: 

True or False: Four common word parts that allow a person to create or easily define medical terms include the prefix, suffix, root and the combining vowel.

The word part ortho refers to:

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

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

The first priority of the medical assistant is:

During a Snellen Test, the visual acuity of each eye should be measured:

Initially, medical assistants received their training:

True or False: Because an individual can control his or her respiration, the medical assistant should make the patient aware of when they begin to measure respirations.

True or False: Almost 79% of adults in the United States are either overweight or obese.

True or False: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is the federal agency responsible for the physical protection of employees in the workplace. As it relates to the medical office, OSHA has two specific functions – regulating the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard and the exposure of employees to hazardous chemicals in the workplace. 

Biohazard warning labels must be put onto all of the following except:

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.

True or False: The measurement of the oxygen saturation of blood by patients at home has increased substantially as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

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

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

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

Handwashing should be performed by:

The muscular system performs all of the following functions except movement:

Eye irrigations are performed for the following purposes, except:

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

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

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

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

Lateral refers to the:

The purpose of the medical record is to provide:

True or False: The three organizations that offer certifications for medical assistants, include The California Certifying Board for Medical Assistants (CCBMA), The American Medical Technologist (AMT) and The American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA).

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

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

Before putting on sterile gloves, the medical assistant should: 

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

Records of employee OSHA training must include:

An active patient file is a patient who has been seen in the office within the last:

A number of factors may temporarily affect blood pressure throughout the course of a day, including:

Most indicator strips are designed to change color after being exposed to a temperature of _______ for 15 minutes.

A postoperative information packet should include:

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

True or False: The same misdeed can provoke both a criminal charge and a civil lawsuit.

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

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

Nutrients provide a:

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

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

The region of communication between two neurons is the:

True or False: The pulse should not be taken with the thumb because the thumb has a pulse of its own.

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

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

Professional behavior is based on:

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

Facial expressions, eye contact, voice intonation, and posture are all important types of:

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

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

The Ishihara Color Vision Test is used to determine:

The muscular system performs all of the following functions except:

When documenting the material covered, the date of the session and the patients response to the information is documentation of a/an:

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

The patient history form will include all of the following except:

Disputes about contracts are litigated under which part of the court system?