QMA State test Questions and Answers
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ccms ✔✔clean catch midstream
QMA scope of practice ✔✔may perform hemoccult testing on stool specimens as ordered by a
physician
hemoccult testing ✔✔A screen for fecal o
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QMA State test Questions and Answers
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ccms ✔✔clean catch midstream
QMA scope of practice ✔✔may perform hemoccult testing on stool specimens as ordered by a
physician
hemoccult testing ✔✔A screen for fecal occult blood
Hemoccult test slide (quaiac paper) ✔✔assess for expiration date
hypovalemia ✔✔state of decreased blood volume. May cause a high false oximetry reading.
QMA's may not apply oxygen to a resident in an emergency without a physicians order.
✔✔However there is often a PRN order for oxygen when the resident falls short of
breath/oxygen saturation levels are low.
QMA's may initiate a nasal cannula only in an emergency situation. ✔✔QMA's may initiate nonsealing mask per emergency or PRN situation.
oxygen dries out the mucous membranes of the mouth and respiratory system. ✔✔The physician
may order humidity to be placed on the oxygen source.
Physician ordered humidity along w/ oxygen. (distilled water) ✔✔This means gas passes
through the water and water vapor is picked up before going to the resident.
When applying sterile/distilled water to residents oxygen remember to. ✔✔discard the
sterile/distilled water after 2 weeks.
Portable oxygen tanks ✔✔have a few lbs of oxygen, they can last up to 8 hrs.
Oxygen concentrator weighs approximately 35 lbs. It must be plugged in to an electrical outlet.
✔✔Concentrator's extract oxygen from the room air and circulates it back to the resident.
Do not use petroleum (vasoline) to resident's nares during administration of oxygen.
✔✔Example: dry lips, chap-stick should not be applied if it has vasoline in it.
Signs/symptoms of respiratory distress ✔✔rapid pulse, rapid,shallow, flaring nostrils,
restlessness respirations, cyanosis.
Position the resident in a Semi-Fowler's or Fowler's to maintain an open airway. ✔✔Apply
ordered oxygen administration device.
Nasal cannula 1/2 inch prongs should be placed? ✔✔in a downward direction.
A reading on the oximetry of 90% may indicate? ✔✔Resident need to be given oxygen'
Instilling a Commercially Prepared Disposable Enema. ✔✔Solution into the rectum and sigmoid
colon. Removes feces/flatus.
QMA's may only instill a commercially prepared enema which contains approximately
✔✔120ml (4oz.) of fluid.
Commercially Prepared Disposable Enema's increases water absorption in the small intestine by
osmotic action. ✔✔A laxative effect that occurs due to increased peristalsis and water retention.
Sodium bi-phosphate (fleet enema) ✔✔is a saline laxative commonly ordered to be
administered.
Record color, consistency and amount after resident has had a ✔✔bowl movement from a
prepared disposable enema
A localized collection of puss in any part of the body which is the result of disintegration or
displacement of tissue. ✔✔Abscess
Chemical present in many organs and tissues of the body that has important physiological
functions, ex: transmission of a nerve impulse across a synapse i.e. neurotransmitters.
✔✔Acetylcholine
Naturally acquired immunity obtained by contracting a disease or by the injection the infectious
organism. ✔✔Active Immunity
An undesired side effect of a medication or toxicity ✔✔Adverse effect
Psychotic reaction in which a person exhibits wide swing in emotional feeling. ✔✔Affective
psychosis
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome effect the body's ability to fight infections ✔✔(AIDS)
Spread through body fluids
Motor restlessness continuous movement of mouth, hands, picking at self and rocking in a chair
✔✔Akathisia
Complete or partial loss of muscle movement ✔✔
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