Certified Medication Aide Exam Test Bank
Questions and Answers (Verified Revised Full Exam)
1. True or False? Med aides may only give a PRN if the nurse has specifically
delegated the task for the specific resident and drug?
Ans>> True. Med aide can't assess the need for a PRN, this must be done by a nurse
2. Med aides can't do what?
Ans>> Give first doses of new meds
3. Factors affecting drug actions include what?
Ans>> Weight, age, metabolic rate, and tolerance
4. What are the six rights of med administration?
Ans>> The right drug, the right person, the right documentation, the right route, the right
dose, and the right time
,5. Before you work as a med aide, you?
Ans>> Must pass course exams, complete and demonstrate skills
6. As a med aide in your facility, you should what?
Ans>> Work within the legal limits of your role
7. You tell a patient about your personal problems. This is a what?
Ans>> boundary violation
8. A nurse asks you to do something beyond the legal limits of your role. You do what?
Ans>> Refuse to follow the nurses order and explain why
9. You're not sure whether you should give a certain drug, You should do what?
Ans>> Ask the Nurse
10. In order to assess a person, the nurse decides to give the person the oral drugs
that you usually give. You do what?
Ans>> Understand this is the best decision for the person at the time.
11. The nurse asks you to perform a task that is in your job description. You have not
,done this task before. You do what?
Ans>> Tell the nurse you have not done the task before and ask for help
12. When you agree to perform a delegated task. You what?
Ans>> Must complete the task safely
13. A nurse asks you to perform a task. You do the following except what? restate or
clarify what is expected of you, know how to contact the nurse if theres an
emergency, document the care given, or do the task even though you have not been
trained?
Ans>> Do the task even though you have not been trained
14. What step can the nurse delegate to you?
Ans>> Give certain drugs
15. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the power to do the following except
what? Determine the safety and effectiveness of drugs before market- ing, ensure that
manufacturers meet labeling requirements, ensure advertis- ing standards are met
when manufacturers market drugs, or determine who gives drugs to patients or
residents?
Ans>> Determine who gives drugs to patients or residents
16. If you fail to do something that a reasonable and careful person would have done,
you are what?
,Ans>> Negligent
,17. Invasion of privacy occurs if you what?
Ans>> Violate a persons right to have his
or her name, photo, or private affairs made public without giving consent
18. You suspect a persons being abused. You should what?
Ans>> Share your con- cerns with your supervisor
19. Schedule 11 drugs may lead to what?
Ans>> Severe psychological or physical dependence
20. According to the text, when you touch a persons body without his or her consent
its called a what?
Ans>> Battery
21. The intentional mistreatment or harm of another person is what?
Ans>> Abuse
22. Knowledge of what is right conduct and wrong conduct is called what?
Ans>> -
Ethics
23. Which statement about an ethical person is true?
Ans>> An ethical person behaves in the right way
24. You display ethical behavior by what?
Ans>> Keeping the persons property safe
,25. To protect yourself from assault and battery, you what?
Ans>> Get the persons consent before doing a procedure
26. A nurse gives the wrong dosage of a drug to a person. This is what?
Ans>> mal- practice
27. You gave a drug to the wrong person. This is what?
Ans>> Negligence
28. You trick a person into taking a drug. This is called what?
Ans>> Fraud
29. You scold an older person for refusing to take ordered drugs This is what?
Ans>> Verbal abuse
30. Violating or failing to comply with the Controlled Substance Act can result in a
what?
Ans>> Fine and Prison term
31. Pain and nausea are examples of what?
Ans>> Subjective Data
32. What observations should you report at once?
Ans>> Complaints of sudden severe pain
33. Cancer and diabetes are examples of what?
Ans>> Medical Diagnosis
34. A person is eating. How long should you wait before taking an oral tem-
perature?
Ans>> 15 to 20 minutes
35. A person has a blood pressure of 118/78.This is what?
Ans>> Within normal range
,36. Good communication occurs when you what?
Ans>> Give information in a logical and orderly manner
37. Symptoms are an example of what?
Ans>> Subjective Data
38. Which of the following is not objective data? A persons respiratory rate, the color
of a persons urine, a persons blood pressure, or pain felt by a person?
Ans>> Pain felt by a person
,39. When should you record that you gave a person a drug?
Ans>> After giving the
drug
40. You are giving a person his drugs. What observation should you report at once?
Ans>> The person refused to take a drug
41. The basic unit of body structure is what?
Ans>> A cell
42. The integumentary system ?
Ans>> Covers the body
43. The white of the eye is the what?
Ans>> Sclera
44. The external or (outer part) is called the what?
Ans>> pinna or auricle
45. Digestion begins where?
Ans>> In the oral cavity
46. The master gland is the what?
Ans>> Pituitary
47. A blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart is what?
Ans>> Artery
48. A person feels the need to urinate when the bladder contains how much?-
Ans>> About 250 mL of urine
49. The thyroid hormone regulates what?
Ans>> Metabolism
50. Which statement about insulin is false? It is secreted by the pancreas, it is needed
, for sugar to enter the cells, it regulates the amount of sugar in the blood available for
use by the cells, or it is secreted by the stomach?
Ans>> It is secreted by the stomach
51. The generic name of a drug is the what?
Ans>> Drugs common name
52. Drugs that interact with a receptor to cause a response are what?
Ans>> Agonists
53. Absorption is the what?
Ans>> Process by which a drug is transferred from its site of body entry to circulating body
fluids for distribution
54. an enteral drug is given?
Ans>> Throuhg the oral, rectal, and naso-gastric routes
55. The primary routes of excretion for a drug are what?
Ans>> Elimination through urine and feces
56. An idiosyncratic reaction is what?
Ans>> Something unusual or abnormal that happens when a drug is first given
57. A drug interaction occurs when
Ans>> The action of one drug is altered by the action of another drug
58. Another term for urticaria is what?
Ans>> Hives
59. A severe, life threatening sensitivity to an antigen is what?
Ans>> Anaphylaxis
60. The rate of absorption depends on the following except what?
Ans>> The clinical indications for using a drug
61. A prescription drug needs what?
