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(NHA) Medical Assisting Certification
Study Guide(Specifically for students
from the MA program in Job Corps.
This is a study guide for the NHA
Certification as a Clinical Medical
Assistant. Guide covers phlebotomy,
EKGs, anatomy and physiology,
clinical skills, federal laws and
programs (e.g. HIPPA), and treatment
of patients)2023.
CC - Answer Chief Complaint

Segment - Answer Line between two waveforms

P Wave - Answer Arterial Depolarization

How many 1mm boxes are in a 6 second rhythm strip? - Answer 30 one millimeter
boxes

The SA node represents which waveform on the EKG? - Answer Only the P wave

What is the reading you can get from the RR interval? - Answer Ventricular Pulse

What is the primary stage of Hemolysis? - Answer Vascular phase and platelet
phase together

What is Electrophoresis? - Answer Analyzation of the chemical components of blood,
e.g. hemoglobin, serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid based on electrical charge.

Positive testing for occult blood in a stool sample turns which color? - Answer Turns
blue on a positive test for occult blood in feces

The stages of Hemostasis - Answer 1. Vascular, 2. Platelet Phase, 3. Coagulation
Phase,
4. Fibronolysis

Blood vessels - Answer Aorta, Arteries, Arterioles, Capillaries, Venues, Veins,
Superior and Inferior Vena Cavae

Outer connective tissue layer of a blood vessel - Answer Tunica Adventitia

Inner endothelial tissue of a blood vessel - Answer Tunica Intima

,(NHA) Medical Assisting Certification
Study Guide(Specifically for students
from the MA program in Job Corps.
This is a study guide for the NHA
Certification as a Clinical Medical
Assistant. Guide covers phlebotomy,
EKGs, anatomy and physiology,
clinical skills, federal laws and
programs (e.g. HIPPA), and treatment
of patients)2023.
The inner smooth layer of a blood vessel - Answer Tunica tunica media

The standards of right and wrong in a medical setting - Answer Code of Ethics

What do you find in capillaries? - Answer A mixture of venous and arterial blood is
found

The average adult has how many liters of blood? - Answer 5-6 Liters

What is the percentage of water in the blood? - Answer 92%

Percentage of plasma in the blood? - Answer 55%

Percentage of formed elements in the blood? - Answer 45%

99% of formed elements in the blood - Answer RBC,s or Erythrocytes

Where do you find hemoglobin? - Answer RBC,s

Where do all blood cells originate? - Answer Bone marrow

How many RBC,s per microliter of blood - Answer 4.2-6.2 million

What is the second most numerous WBC - Answer Lymphocyte with 20-40%

Their numbers increase in intracellular infections and TB - Answer Monocytes

Their numbers increase in bacterial infections and are often first on the scene -
Answer Neutrophils

, (NHA) Medical Assisting Certification
Study Guide(Specifically for students
from the MA program in Job Corps.
This is a study guide for the NHA
Certification as a Clinical Medical
Assistant. Guide covers phlebotomy,
EKGs, anatomy and physiology,
clinical skills, federal laws and
programs (e.g. HIPPA), and treatment
of patients)2023.
These WBC,s play an important role in viral infection as well as in immunity - Answer
Lymphocytes

Number of leukocytes for average adult per microliter - Answer 5000-10000

Leukopenia - Answer Decrease in WBC,s seen with viral infection and leukemia

Comprises 3-8% of WBC or leukocytes - Answer Monocytes

Largest in size of the leukocytes - Answer Monocytes

Carries histamine - Answer Basophil

Injury to a blood vessel that causes it to constrict, slowing the clod of blood. - Answer
Vascular phase of Hemostasis

Preferred site for a venipuncture - Answer Antecubital Fossa

Test used to evaluate the intrinsic pathway and monitor heparin therapy - Answer
APTT also know as PTT

Test used to evaluate the extrinsic pathway and also used to monitor warfarin
therapy - Answer PT

Fibrinolysis - Answer Breakdown and removal of a clot

Converts the temporary platelet plug in a stable fibrin clot - Answer Coagulation
Phase

2nd choice vein for venipuncture and most often the only one palatable in an obese
Pt. - Answer Cephalic vein

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