Point-of-care testing & lab — Free CCMA Practice Test

1) Clean-catch midstream urine collection instructions should include which key step?

2) A routine urinalysis cannot be run for 90 minutes. Best practice is to:

3) Regarding urine hCG pregnancy POCT, which statement is TRUE?

4) CLIA-waived tests are best described as those that are:

5) External liquid controls for a waived test should be run at minimum:

6) A POCT glucose result is far outside the instrument range. The BEST next action is to:

7) Proper specimen labeling for POCT should include at minimum:

8) A complete lab requisition for a throat culture should include which item?

9) When sending a specimen to an outside lab, the MA should place it in a:

10) On a Snellen chart, 20/40 vision means the patient can read at 20 feet what a person with normal vision reads at:

11) During Snellen testing, which technique is CORRECT?

12) The Ishihara plates are primarily used to screen for which condition?

13) For pure-tone audiometry screening, a correct step is to:

14) Correct spirometry technique includes which instruction?

15) FEV₁ is defined as the volume of air exhaled:

16) Which is a COMMON POCT testing error the MA must avoid?

17) Which is typically CLIA-waived in ambulatory practice?

18) For guaiac fecal occult blood testing (FOBT), the patient should be instructed to:

19) Proper throat swab technique for rapid strep includes swabbing the:

20) For nasal swab antigen testing, proper collection generally involves inserting the swab:

21) For urine reagent strip testing, the MA should:

22) A good QC log entry includes which details?

23) Spirometry repeatability criteria typically require the two best FEV₁ and FVC values to be within:

24) A typical adult pure-tone screening uses which frequencies and intensity?

25) Which specimen is most likely to be REJECTED by a reference lab?