Exam 28: Patient Assessment

A patient who accuses the medical assistant of being short tempered when the patient has just screamed at the medical assistant about a bill is displaying the defense mechanism of projection.

Which of the following is an open-ended question or statement?

Which of the following explains a sign of disease?

Which of the following includes the patient's dietary habits, smoking history, and alcohol consumption?

When conducting a patient interview, the medical assistant should sit behind a desk with arms crossed and wait for the patient to establish eye contact.

A patient's lifestyle factors would be included in the family history section of the medical history.

A patient interview may be conducted in a quiet corner of the waiting room.

Issues of privacy are important to adolescent patients.

Objective data include which of the following?

Detail how to make a correction in a patient's record.

Sally Tipoke, age 17, is scheduled for her first Pap smear today.She appears anxious and scared.Choose the medical assistant's most appropriate statement.

What is the best way to obtain specific information about a patient when taking the medical history?

What does it mean when medical assistants display empathy when dealing with patients?

Restatement is a valuable active listening technique, because it acknowledges the emotions displayed by the patient during the interview.

When a verbal message matches the sender's nonverbal body language, the message is considered __________.

The size and shape of a wound would be included in the assessment section of SOAP documentation.

The best method of ensuring that the patient understands a patient education intervention is to have the patient repeat back the details learned.

Identify the legal and ethical issues associated with the medical record.

Value systems are learned beliefs and behaviors that can affect therapeutic relationships.

The __________ is the physician's approach to managing the patient's health problem.