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Certified Medical Assistant — Practice Exam

Medication administration: practice questions

Our Medical Assistant bank has 22 questions on this topic. Here are 5 of them with answers; the full mock exam draws from every topic, like the real one.

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Question 1

Which site is preferred for IM injections in infants?

  1. Abdomen (near navel)
  2. Dorsogluteal (upper outer buttock)
  3. Deltoid (upper arm)
  4. Vastus lateralis (outer thigh)
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D. Vastus lateralis (outer thigh) — The deltoid is too small in most infants.

Question 2

Which IM site is generally avoided because of the risk of hitting the sciatic nerve?

  1. Ventrogluteal site
  2. Deltoid site in adults
  3. Dorsogluteal site
  4. Vastus lateralis site
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C. Dorsogluteal site — The ventrogluteal site is the safer gluteal site.

Question 3

What angle is used for an intradermal injection?

  1. 90 degrees (straight in)
  2. 45 degrees
  3. 10 to 15 degrees
  4. 60 degrees
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C. 10 to 15 degrees — The bevel faces up and a wheal forms.

Question 4

What should be recorded after giving a vaccine?

  1. Vaccine name, lot number, manufacturer, site, route, date, VIS date and who gave it
  2. The patient's insurance number and the cost charged for the vaccine
  3. The temperature of the vaccine refrigerator and the time of the patient's next appointment
  4. Only the date and the name of the vaccine that was given to the patient
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A. Vaccine name, lot number, manufacturer, site, route, date, VIS date and who gave it — Federal law requires many of these details.

Question 5

Which injection route is used for a tuberculin skin test?

  1. Intravenous
  2. Intramuscular
  3. Intradermal
  4. Subcutaneous
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C. Intradermal — 0.1 mL of PPD is injected just under the skin surface.

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