Certified Medication Aide Exam 1
What kind of drug reaction is life threatening? ✔✔
What are your responsibilities as a CMA? ✔✔Assist a license nurse in providing safe and ethical
care for clients.
What do you do whe
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Certified Medication Aide Exam 1
What kind of drug reaction is life threatening? ✔✔
What are your responsibilities as a CMA? ✔✔Assist a license nurse in providing safe and ethical
care for clients.
What do you do when you suspect abuse? ✔✔To give an account of something that has been
seem, heard, or considered to be done to the supervising licensed nurse.
What are examples of subjective data? Objective data? ✔✔Subjective data - Symptoms - is what
the resident tells you but is not noticed through the senses, such as touch, etc. Opinions are
considered subjective data.
Objective data - signs- are those things you can see, hear, feel, or smell.
What is necessary for good communication? ✔✔Communication requires a sender, a message,
and receiver.
What is an idiosyncratic reaction? ✔✔
Where are most drugs metabolized (which body organ)? ✔✔
Know steps to washing hands. ✔✔Use warm running water, keeping hands lower than elbows
allowing water to flow toward fingertips. Firm rubbing motion. Liquid soap. Wash for 15 - 30
seconds. Dry hands, use a dry towel to turn faucet off. Avoid touching sink with clothing.
Always use soap and water if hands are visibly dirty.
How long are hands washed for? ✔✔15 - 30 seconds
What is not legal for a CMA to do while working? ✔✔To give medications by any route that
involves puncturing the skin, such as intramuscular or subcutaneous injections, or through
intravenous lines. To take phone orders from a physician, demist, pharmacist, and registered
nurse practitioner.
The law states that all drugs must have a uniform __ and __. ✔✔
List acceptable drug references. ✔✔Package insert, Physician's Desk Reference (PDR), and
Pharmacist.
A generic name of a drug always begins with what kind of letter? A brand name with what kind
of letter? ✔✔Generic name always lowercase, Brand name is always capital.
Where does an enteric coated tablet dissolve? ✔✔Dissolves easily in the small intestine.
How do you give a sublingual tablet? When in relation to other medications such as oral
medications? ✔✔You give the sublingual tablet last.
How should the medication cart be stored? ✔✔The medication cart should be locked when your
not by it, and stored in the med room.
List 5 factors that affect drug and medication action (there are more than)? ✔✔
What are the primary routes of excretion? ✔✔Through the urine or feces, or lungs, sweat, hair,
or milk.
What could happen if you do something beyond the legal limits of your role? ✔✔practicing
nursing without a license
What is a classification of medications that are frequently abused? ✔✔Narcotics
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