CERTIFIED MEDICATION AIDE PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

3 Factors that affect drug absorption? CORRECT ANSWER Age, Sex, Weight Seven Rights of Drug Administration CORRECT ANSWER 1.) Right Resident 2.) Right Medication 3.) Right Dose 4.) Right route 5.) Right time 6.) Right Documentation 7.) Right to Refuse Which of the following must you have completed to become a CMA CORRECT ANSWER All of the above While you are giving medications as CMA, your good friend pat comes up to the medication cart to talk to you. She is finished with her work and is telling you in detail about her date the evening before. What will you do? CORRECT ANSWER Explain to Pat that you will have to hear about it later, after you give the, medications When you are giving medications to Mr. Smith you accidently give him two aspirin tablets instead of the one tablet that is ordered. As soon as he has swallowed the aspirin you realize your mistake what will you do? CORRECT ANSWER Immediately tell your supervisor You are scheduled to work on Tuesday the 12th from 3pm to 11 pm when you wake up Tuesday morning at 10 you feel sick. When should you call your supervisor to tell him you will not be able to come in to work? CORRECT ANSWER 10 am Normal Blood Pressure Range CORRECT ANSWER 110-140 Give Isopto Carpine 2 gtt od TID what will you give? CORRECT ANSWER 2 drops of isopto carpine in the right eye three times a day Delcort Ung BID TOP To Rash what does this mean? CORRECT ANSWER Delcort ointment twice a day applied topically to rash Mr. Washington has orders for a medicine called Lipitor an " antihyperlipidemic" This medicine is given to what CORRECT ANSWER Work against high fat in the blood When you take 's blood pressure you hear heartbeats immediately upon releasing the thumb screw of the cuff what will you do? CORRECT ANSWER Wait three minutes with the cuff off repeat the blood pressure and pump