Patient safety
What medical professional does these things:
*provide quality patient care
*interact effectively with patients
*ensure safety
* assist the provider as necessary
MA's
These four main measurements of the body's most basic functions, often referred to as a set, include temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure.
What is Vital Signs
What could pose a potential risk of injury and impact their health status
Various types of machinery
What does PHQ stand for
what Patient Health Questionnaire
This measurement is defined as the force of the blood circulating through the arteries and is manually determined using a sphygmomanometer and stethoscope.
What is blood pressure?
this specific healthcare setting cannot be underestimated, requiring plans for fires, natural disasters, and special precautions for children and older adults.
What is the ambulatory care setting
these are the two main sections of a patient's health record, one containing demographics and financial data, the other holding the patient's medical history, lab results, and progress notes
What will the patients be interviewed on during the screening
what is their use of alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, recreational drugs or other chemical substances, and sexual practices
type of patient might require a mini-mental examination to evaluate for dementia or other degenerative disorders.
What are older adult patients?
first described by Dr. Nikolai Korotkoff in 1905, are the tapping, swishing, and muffled sounds heard during the manual measurement of blood pressure.
What are Korotkoff sounds
These two pieces of information are the most common identifiers used when a patient is face-to-face and receiving care.
What are full name and date of birth
This formal safety process, necessary at every office visit, involves comparing a patient's list of medications to their medical record to prevent prescribing errors and adverse drug reactions.
What is medication reconciliation
The type of history a medical assistant should obtain to identify potential workplace hazards, such as asbestos exposure or the risk of injury from various types of machinery.
What is the patient's occupational history
This two-question screening tool focuses on a patient's frequency of depressed mood over two weeks
What is the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2)?"
method can be used in emergency situations to check a patient's systolic pressure by feeling the radial pulse instead of hearing it with a stethoscope."
What is the palpatory method?
What is the minimum number of identification methods The Joint Commission requires to validate a patient's identity when providing care, treatment, or services.
What is two
This is the term for subjective information, also called chief concern, documented in the patient's own words that identifies the reason for the visit.
What is a chief complaint
This term describes the process of asking a patient specific questions about their use of alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, recreational drugs, sexual practices, and occupational history to gather data on their health status.
What is a lifestyle screening or assessment
Difficulty going to sleep, profound sadness and fatigue, and a loss of energy are all symptoms that fall under this common grouping
What are common depression symptoms
When using the palpatory method, you inflate the cuff until the pulse disappears, then add this amount of additional pressure before slowly releasing.
What is 30 mm Hg
For ___ (or ______) patients, staff should be particularly attentive to safety and may need to provide assistance with walking or getting onto an examination table.
older adults, or children
When documenting a patient's allergy status in a paper chart, a medical assistant will often flag the patient's record in several areas using this specific color ink or type of sticker, a safety measure to avoid life-threatening anaphylaxis.
What is red (ink or stickers)
In a patient's medical record, this is the appropriate action to take when a patient is not comfortable or refuses to answer questions about their lifestyle or health status.
What is documenting "patient declined to answer
If a patient's answers to the PHQ-2 reflect a positive response to depression , the medical assistant will proceed to this next step in the screening process.
What is administering the PHQ-9?
A significant drop in blood pressure during positional changes, such as moving from lying down to standing, can cause dizziness and potentially fainting due to insufficient blood flow to the brain.
What is Orthostatic Hypotension