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CMA Exam Study Guide Questions with Answers latest 2025, Exams of Social Sciences

CMA Exam Study Guide Questions with Answers latest 2025

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CMA Exam Study Guide Questions with
Answers latest 2025
What are the 10 R's of administering a medication?
✔️ Right patient
Right medication
Right dose
Right time
Right route
Right education
Right to refuse
Right assessment
Right evaluation
Right documentation
A winged or butterfly set is used for patients that have?
✔️ fragile veins
When drawing blood what should you have your patient do?
✔️ make a fist
The sims position is the best position to put a patient obtain a?
✔️ rectal temp
A patient w/ TB should be in?
✔️ airborne precautions
What might be some of the duties a CMA preforms?
✔️ venipuncture, injections, taking vitals, paperwork
What does MSDS stand for?
✔️ Material Safety Data Sheet
The MSDS is a vital component of?
✔️ OSHA
What does OSHA stand for?
✔️ Occupational Saftey & Health Administration
Following a blood draw what should the CMA check the patient for?
✔️ shaking or twitching
Apical pulse is used for?
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What are the 10 R's of administering a medication? ✔️ Right patient Right medication Right dose Right time Right route Right education Right to refuse Right assessment Right evaluation Right documentation

A winged or butterfly set is used for patients that have? ✔️ fragile veins

When drawing blood what should you have your patient do? ✔️ make a fist

The sims position is the best position to put a patient obtain a? ✔️ rectal temp

A patient w/ TB should be in? ✔️ airborne precautions

What might be some of the duties a CMA preforms? ✔️ venipuncture, injections, taking vitals, paperwork

What does MSDS stand for? ✔️ Material Safety Data Sheet

The MSDS is a vital component of? ✔️ OSHA

What does OSHA stand for? ✔️ Occupational Saftey & Health Administration

Following a blood draw what should the CMA check the patient for? ✔️ shaking or twitching

Apical pulse is used for?

✔️ determining heart rate of infants

How often should alcohol swabs be ordered? ✔️ monthly

Why is a intradermal injection given? ✔️ to see if a patient has allergies

What technique should the CMA use to clean an exam table? ✔️ medical asepsis to disinfect

Where should hazardous waste go? ✔️ red bio-hazard bag

How is aerial blood gas delivered? ✔️ on ice

If the CMA accidentally poked themselves when should they tell the supervisor? ✔️ RIGHT AWAY

T or F... It could be considered an invasion of privacy if a CMA enters a patients room w/ out introducing themselves or acknowledging the patient ✔️ true

Informed Consent ✔️ You are informing the patient of any possible risks and outcome of procedure

Implied Consent ✔️ Extending an arm for phlebotomy or an unconscious patient who needs help

Written Consent ✔️ must be written and signed by patient or guardian (HIV or pregnancy test)

When collecting a urine sample where should you put the patients info? ✔️ on bottle--- not on lid-- b/c it could get lost

Could you do an EKG on a patient w/ parkinsons disease? ✔️ no--- b/c most likely somatic tremors would be present

A streptococcal test would be collected on? ✔️ the throat

What is the order of draw and lab dept? ✔️ Yellow- Microbiology (culture)

✔️ never alone

BP is measured in ✔️ millimeters of mercury (mm)

If patient is experiencing abdominal pains and respiratory problems what position should they put the patient in? ✔️ fowlers

A BP is written in ✔️ systolic


diastolic

20 small boxes on an EKG strip would equal the rate of? ✔️ 75

Should OSHA & BBP training be provided for employees ✔️ yes- at no cost

What is a snellen chart used to measure? ✔️ eye chart- to measure visual acuity

A heel stick should not be preformed on a patient older than? ✔️ 1

What are the normal vital signs? ✔️ temp, pulse rate, BP, and respiratory

a fingerstick should never be preformed on a patient less than? ✔️ 1 year old

How long should you take vital signs for? ✔️ full minute

Point of care testing (POCT) is ✔️ testing done at or near the site of patient care

Say a physician is behind and a patient has waited past their appointment time, why should you do? ✔️ ask if they want to reschedule

Who should be the one giving the results to the patient? ✔️ doctor

Point of care quality control tests regulation ensures ✔️ accuracy of results

When should you do a pregnancy test? ✔️ in AM- most accurate

Sublingual is ✔️ oral or under tounge

transdermal ✔️ absorbed through skin

Intradermal (ID) ✔️ 15 degree angle

Intramuscular (IM) ✔️ 90 degree angle

Suncutaneous (SUB Q) ✔️ 45 degree angle

Transdermal medicine ✔️ is absorbed slowly

What is a clean catch urine specimen? ✔️ collected for culture and sensitivity

What are the sounds you should be listening to when taking a BP using a stethoscope? ✔️ Korotkoff sounds

Metastasis ✔️ spread of disease from one organ or part to another non-adjacent organ or part

Atrophy ✔️ destruction of body part

antibacterial ✔️ compound or substance that kills or slows growth of bacteria

Antiseptics ✔️ antimicrobial substances that are applied to living tissue/ skin to reduce the possibility of infection or sepsis

Assault ✔️ intentional attempt of bodily injury to another by force

Trenelenberg Position ✔️ most vital for patient with a drop of BP

nosocomial infection ✔️ infection obtained at the hospital

Enteropexy ✔️ surgical fixation of small intestine

presbyopia ✔️ lens of eye looses focus- hard to see objects up close (CMA should help lead them)