Deck 19: Working With Pediatric and Geriatric Clients

Question 1

What is the term that means "a facility in which a geriatric patient resides and maintains some independence, but receives assistance with medication administration or activities of daily living?

A) Long-term care facility
B) Assisted living
C) Skilled nursing facility
D) Percentile

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Pediatrics is a branch of medicine that studies and cares for patients under what age?

A) 16
B) 21
C) 12
D) 18

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Adolescents are between what ages?

A) One month-one year
B) One year-11 years
C) 12-18 years
D) 18 and over

Answer 3

C

Question 4

In comparison to adult patients, pediatric patients have larger/higher amounts of which of the following?

A) Water
B) Body surface area
C) Blood pressure
D) All of the above

Question 5

Until a child is three years old, what is the best position to measure their height?

A) Supine
B) Standing
C) Dorsal
D) Knee-to-chest

Question 6

At what age is it appropriate to stop measuring head circumference at a well-child exam?

A) Two years
B) One year
C) Three years
D) Five years

Question 7

Which of the following are signs of a Failure to thrive (FTT)?

A) Poor emotional development
B) Extremely low weight
C) Poor intellectual development
D) Poor social development

Question 8

Which temperature measuring route is preferred for infants?

A) Rectal
B) Axillary
C) Oral
D) Aural

Question 9

To measure the heart rate in a patient under _____ years old, listening to the pulse with a stethoscope is the preferred method.

A) 10
B) 5
C) 18
D) 13

Question 10

Newborns have a normal respiratory rate of:

A) 30-60 breaths per minute
B) 12-20 breaths per minute
C) 5-10 breaths per minute
D) 40-70 breaths per minute

Question 11

Which of the following are symptoms that might indicate a vision problem in a young child?

A) Looking cross-eyed
B) Frequent eye rubbing
C) Excessive blinking
D) All of the above

Question 12

What must be up to date before a child is eligible to enter public school?

A) Immunizations
B) Vision screening
C) Hearing screening
D) Vaccine information statement

Question 13

What is the most difficult part when administering a vaccine to a child?

A) Finding the injection site
B) Holding them
C) Following infection-control practices
D) Informing the parents about the vaccine

Question 14

_______ is the study of the aging process.

A) Geriatricians
B) Geriatrics
C) Gerontology
D) Ageism

Question 15

Which of the following are a part of activities of daily living or ADLs?

A) Grooming
B) Hygiene
C) Eating
D) All of the above

Question 16

Drug doses may have to be decreased for geriatric patients due to what?

A) Decrease in kidney function
B) Decrease in esophageal and gastric motility
C) Decrease in visual acuity
D) Decrease in maximum inhalation

Question 17

Decreased function of the gonads that inhibits the maturation of sex organs and prevents the appearance of secondary sex characteristics is called:

A) Hypergonadism
B) Hypogonadism
C) Addison's disease
D) Cushing's syndrome

Question 18

Which of the following describes the practice of taking multiple medications?

A) Prescribing cascade
B) Beers criteria
C) Polypharmacy
D) Physiology

Question 19

Which of the following provides a list of medication that may be used inappropriately or unsafely in elderly patients?

A) Butalbital
B) Clomipramine
C) Beers criteria
D) Naproxen

Question 20

If an elderly patient wants to share a narrative about their life experiences, how should the medical assistant react?

A) Cut the patient off
B) Listen attentively
C) Ignore the patient until they finish speaking
D) Request that the patient stick to the questions asked

Question 21

Which of the following is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics as part of routine child healthcare?

A) Vision screenings
B) Hearing screenings
C) Routine vaccinations
D) All of the above

Question 22

Growth charts are used to compare pediatric growth and development to what?

A) Age- and gender-specific national averages of growth
B) Intellectual and social national averages of growth
C) Mental and social national averages of growth
D) Age- and gender-specific local averages of growth

Question 23

Pediatric patients should be treated the same as adult patients.

A) True
B) False
C) Only when they ask to be
D) Only when the parent asks that they be

Question 24

When working with pediatric and geriatric patients, what is perhaps the medical assistant's most important skill?

A) Communication
B) Joke making
C) Bilingualism
D) Maintaining high energy

Question 25

Which of the following influences how a person ages?

A) Diet
B) Lifestyle and experience
C) Genetics
D) All of the above