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Medical Assistant NCMA Practice Test - Question List

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41. A medical assistant is in the lab. He is looking at a specimen he drew earlier. He is concerned that he may have done something wrong because this specimen was supposed to be for serum studies and the serum appears cloudy and milky. What could have happened to this specimen?
  1. The patient was not in a basal state.
  2. The patient ate a fatty meal.
  3. The cloudy specimen may be due to bacteria.
  4. Any of the above.
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42. A medical assistant, Phil, is collecting blood for a multiple test draw from an older adult. After switching a filled container for the next tube in the order, Phil notices a hematoma quickly forming under the skin next to the needle insertion site. Phil is so surprised by how fast it is growing that he has forgotten how he should respond! Can you help Phil?
  1. Phil should tighten the tourniquet and adjust the bevel of the needle.
  2. Phil should call an experienced phlebotomy tech for help, immediately!
  3. Phil should loosen the tourniquet, remove the needle, apply pressure, then check to make sure bleeding has stopped.
  4. Phil should measure the hematoma.
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43. What special precautions should be considered when drawing a blood specimen for a blood alcohol level?
  1. Alcohol wipes should not be used to prep the site.
  2. Correctly identifying the patient.
  3. Correctly labeling and packaging the sample.
  4. All of the above.
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44. Pheona the Medical Assistant is working in the ER when an unconscious patient is received from rescue paramedics, without family members in attendance. Pheona performs a stat draw for several tests, while the entire ER team begins lifesaving treatment.
This is an example of what form of consent?
  1. Informed consent
  2. Implied consent
  3. Good Samaritan act
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45. Phil the Medical Assistant is at the patient’s bedside. While completing the label of the blood specimen he just drew, Phil realizes he wrote the wrong date. He puts a line across the wrong entry, adds his initials at the end of the line, and writes the correct date above the incorrect date. What, if anything, has Phil done wrong?
  1. Phil has not done anything wrong.
  2. Phil should have kept the label neat by whiting-out the wrong date.
  3. Phil should have gone back to the lab for a new label.
  4. Phil should make a very black box over the wrong date, so as not to cause confusion.
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