Abbreviations
This abbreviation is for the organization that you will be receiving your Medical Assisting certification through.
What is the NCCT (National Center of Competency Training)?
This term is the name for what someone who pleads for the cause of another.
What is an advocate?
This is a term for someone's outer behavior that can help an MA to determine how they can best advocate for them.
What is demeanor?
Normal for an adult is 60-80 of these per minute
What are heartbeats or pulse?
This is the type of phlebotomy included in this week's lab competency sign-off sheet.
What is a syringe draw?
This is the abbreviation that owns the credential "CMA" through trademarking.
What is the AAMA (American Association of Medical Assistants)?
This is a service or payment provided under a health plan or something good that can happen to someone.
What is a benefit?
This is the term for giving serious thought or consideration to something, most often applied to our own behaviors and the outcomes of our actions.
What is reflection?
Normal for an adult is between 12-20 per minute
What are respirations?
Leaving a tourniquet on for longer than this amount of time can result in hemoconcentration, thereby throwing off the lab values for the patient.
What is 1 minute?
This is what "CMA" stands for.
What is Certified Medical Assistant?
These are safe and permissible ways for other people to behave toward someone.
What are personal boundaries?
This is the term that means the mental and emotional condition of an individual or group and can be a reflection of the management of a clinic.
What is morale?
This is taken on the forehead and can change based on the environment and what the patient is wearing. Be specific!
What is a temporal temperature.
This is the color of the tube top that contains ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid.
What is lavender?
This is the abbreviation granted to medical assistants who are credentialed through the AMT.
What is an RMA?
This is the term concerning the development, structure, and functioning of human society.
What is sociologic?
This is when someone is adequate or has requisite capabilities.
What is competent?
This can change based on whether a patient has recently eaten, had a drink of any kind, or has recently smoked. Be specific!
What is an oral temperature?
This color of tube top contains Sodium Citrate.
What is a blue top tube?
This is the abbreviation given to the additional training and learning that you (and most other healthcare workers) are required to have to keep your certification current.
What is a CEU (Continuing Education Unit)?
What is integrity?
This is the ability to assess and initiate action independently.
What is initiative?
This is affected by the shoes a person is wearing, which is one reason we need to perform this with their shoes off. Additionally, if a patient is hesitant to have this performed, we can educate them that this information is necessary to ensure a correct dosage of any medications the provider might prescribe for them that day.
What is weight?
This is the typical gauge of a needle used to perform venipuncture.
What is the 21-23 gauge?