Equipment
A medical device that amplifies the subtle sounds of the human body
Stethoscope
What is a blood pressure?
Pressure of circulating blood against the walls of the arteries.
Subjective evidence of a disease or disorder
Symptom
(FEELING expressed by the patient)
PO
By mouth
orally
Temperature taken in the ear
Tympanic
Device used to measure blood glucose
Glucometer
"I took a blood test to see what my blood type is about a week ago can you tell me the results since you already have my chart up?"
"I am unable to give you the results but I will let your doctor know your request so you can further discuss"
HIPAA stands for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Assigning patients in specific blocks of time, usually in 15 or 30 minute increments
Scheduling
ID SUBQ IM
Intradermal, subcutaneous, Intramuscular
The three main injection types
Biohazard bins are what color?
Red
"When you complete your FORTIS Certification program, what will be your certification type?"
Certified Clinical Medical Assistant, CCMA
HIPAA was signed into law in what year?
1996
The doctor asks you to document Auscultation results on a patient with a severe cough, what is Auscultation?
Means listening to sounds, often with a stethoscope
examination of listening to body sounds
" I cant see the chest rise and fall when I am trying to count respirations, what else I do?
Place hand on the sternum/chest area and count rise and fall for 60 seconds.
An electronic device used to measure the saturation of oxygen carried in your red blood cells
Pulse oximeter aka Pulse Ox
"I take Glucophage for something and I am not sure for what, can you tell me what that is?
Brand name: Glucophage
Generic name: Metformin
Used to treat high blood sugar levels caused by type 2 diabetes.
Universal blood type
Type O
The process of recording financial transactions
Posting
A blood collection procedure also known as venipuncture
Phlebotomy
sphygmomanometer
The measuring device on a blood pressure cuff?
"What is a Snellen Chart? I know you guys use them all the time but I am not sure what it is.
YOU GUYS KNEW THIS ONE!!!
Snellen charts are used to measure visual acuity, you know the letter and symbols chart and you cover one eye. See I knew you knew it now it has a name :-)
Failure to execute the care that a reasonable (prudent) person exercises
Negligence
RANDOM! RANDOM! RANDOM!
I can create detailed images of both tissue and bone by pulsing the body with radio waves & detecting changes at the molecular level with a magnetic field, what am I?
Magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI)
26 year old male comes in with a chronic disease that causes the airway of the lungs to swell and narrow, is a blood pressure of 130/80 okay?
130/80 is considered HYPERTENTION
Individuals with Asthma ( chronic swelling & narrowing of the lungs) a healthy blood pressure is the same as anyone else.