Free Nationally Registered Certified Medical Assistant Exam NRCMA Exam Practice Test

The first way to communicate courtesy to the telephone caller is to:

• put them on hold
• answer promptly, identify
• yourself, and ask how you may help them
• excuse yourself if you must put the person on hold
• none of the choices

A goiter:

• controls levels of blood calcium
• is essential for life, secretes steroids
• is the result of hypoparathyroidism
• is a visible swelling of the thyroid gland

A patient in the prone position is lying

• on their bat k with legs
• face down flexed
• on the left side with legs
• flat on their back with palms flexed and face up

An agent which affects blood pressure by increasing the flow of urine and thus reducing the volume of fluid In the body Is called:

• emetic
• diuretic
• depressant
• cathartic

Pathology is the:

• study of paths
• study of disease
• process of disease
• remission of disease

The universal donor is blood type:

• B
• O
• A
• D

Which vitamin is essential for calcium absorption in the body?

• Vitamin A
• Vitamin B12
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin D

A patient calls the office and states they have received a blunt injury to the eye. You should advise them to:

• do nothing unless the eye is very swollen
• come in as soon as possible to have the eye checked
• apply heat
• rub the eye to be sure there is nothing in it

Hypertension is also referred to as:

• hypertrophy
• hyperglycemia
• low blood pressure
• high blood pressure

Incision into the chest wall is referred to as:

• thoracotomy
• thoracic
• thorax
• thoracostomy