ROW ONE
The second level of disease prevention is ________blank.
1. screening
2. rehabilitation
3. illness management
4. Health-promoting behaviors
5. physical therapy
What is screening?
Which of the following has the greatest adverse effect on the learning process during preoperative education?
1. the patient's economic status
2. who is providing the education
3. teaching that takes place too far in advance of the surgery
4. the patient's fear and anxiety
5. the type of surgery the patient will have
What is the patients fear and anxiety?
Which of the following is charted as subjective data?
1. test results
2. practitioner’s examination
3. patient's chief complaint
4. vital signs
5. plan of action
What is patient's chief complaint?
Which of the following offers the patient little freedom to explain his answers and requires only yes-or-no answers?
1. probing
2. agreeing or disagreeing with the patient
3. asking leading questions
4. asking closed-ended questions
5. mirroring the patient's responses
What is asking closed-ended questions?
Which of the following information would you place in the "P" section when using SOAP charting?
1. practitioner’s examination
2. practitioner’s diagnosis
3. patient's chief complaint
4. test results
5. patient education
What is patient education?
An example of a screening test is ________blank.
1. pain management
2. teaching a patient the warning signs of cancer
3. a stroke rehabilitation program
4. a mammogram
5. teaching health-promoting behaviors
What is a mammogram?
Which of the following tips is especially useful when you are providing preoperative education?
1. Present the instructions using appropriate medical and technical terminology.
2. Avoid including family members in the teaching.
3. Stress both the positives and the negatives of the proposed surgery in your teaching.
4. Allow extra time for repetition and reinforcement of the material.
5. Promise the patient a specific outcome as a result of the surgery.
What is Allow extra time for repetition and reinforcement of the material?
The practitioner’s diagnosis or impression of the patient’s condition is the __________.
1. subjective data
2. assessment
3. objective data
4. plan of action
5. problem list
What is assessment?
The information in the patient's chart is __________.
1. a reminder to the medical assistant of what has occurred in the past
2. primarily for the third-party payer's use
3. a mechanism to provide information to the patient about treatments
4. a legal record of treatment rendered
5. a tool for diagnosing illness
What is a legal record of treatment rendered?
Which of the following would you place in the "A" section when using SOAP charting?
1. practitioner’s examination
2. practitioner’s diagnosis
3. patient's perceptions
4. test results
5. patient education
A benefit of the patient information packet is that it ________blank.
1. promotes better compliance with treatment programs
2. helps patients feel more comfortable with the qualifications of the healthcare professionals who are caring for them
3. can answer a treatment question that may come up during an office visit
4. encourages patients to help themselves achieve better health
5. identifies home remedies that can be used as an alternative to seeing the physician
What is helps patients feel more comfortable with the qualifications of the healthcare professionals who are caring for them?
The types of teaching used in patient education are factual, sensory, and ________blank.
1. independent learning
2. participatory
3. group instruction
4. role playing
5. cognitive
What is participatory?
Which of the following information would be documented under the plan of action?
1. medications prescribed and tests to be done
2. practitioner’s diagnosis
3. patient's chief complaint
4. results of the practitioner’s examination
5. patient's vital signs
What is medications prescribed and tests to be done?
Which of the following statements applies to HIPAA requirements?
1. Long-term costs of treatment choices must be explained to patients.
2. A privacy notice must be prominently posted within the hospital.
3. Patients should know the identity of people involved in care.
4. Patients should be informed of available resources for resolving disputes.
5. Reasonable continuity of care should be provided to patients.
What is A privacy notice must be prominently posted within the hospital?
Which section of the health history form includes questions about and examination (by the practitioner) of all body functions?
1. chief complaint
2. history of present illness
3. past medical history
4. review of systems
5. social and occupational history
What is review of systems?
Which of the following types of preoperative teaching gives patients a description of the physical sensations they may have during a procedure?
1. factual
2. sensory
3. participatory
4. modeling
5. psychomotor
What is sensory?
The amount and type of patient education a medical assistant provides is decided by his/her place of employment and ________blank.
1. content knowledge
2. communication skills
3. scope of practice
4. ability to perform research
5. length of employment
What is scope of practice?
Methods of collecting patient data include mirroring, which includes __________.
1. blocking further communication
2. restating what the patient says almost exactly as the patient says it
3. interpreting what you believe the patient is saying
4. motivating the patient to describe the situation in his own way
5. asking closed-ended questions
What is restating what the patient says almost exactly as the patient says it?
Maintaining eye contact is a characteristic of which of these methods of data collection?
1. asking closed-ended questions
2. verbalizing the implied
3. asking open-ended questions
4. focusing on the patient
5. probing
What is focusing on the patient?
The section of the health history form that contains information about when the problem started and what the patient has done to treat it is the __________.
1. personal data section
2. chief complaint section
3. history of present illness section
4. past medical history section
5. family history section
What is history of present illness section?
In which type of teaching will a medical assistant describe a technique to the patient, demonstrate it, and then ask the patient to repeat the demonstration?
1.factual
2. sensory
3. participatory
4. combination
5. cognitive
What is participatory?
The three domains of learning are the cognitive domain, the affective domain, and the ________blank domain.
1. psychomotor
2. general
3. knowledge
4. behavioral
5. factual
What is psychomotor?
"You seem to be making progress, don't you agree?" is an example of which method of collecting patient data?
1. asking leading questions
2. probing
3. challenging the patient
4. asking open-ended questions
5. encouraging the patient to take the lead
What is asking leading questions?
Using SOAP charting, where would you document measurable information?
1. Subjective data
2. Objective data
3. Assessment
4. Plan of action
5. Test results
What is objective data?
The __________ section of the health history form gives the practitioner information about exposure to hazardous substances, sexual practices, and chemical use habits.
1. personal data
2. history of present illness
3. family history
4. past medical history
5. social and occupational history
What is social and occupational history?