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FALL 2023
--MA053—Medical Assisting—Administration
Name: _______________________
First Aid Worksheet--
20 Points = 1-2 points per scenario
The following situations might occur in and/or out of your doctor’s office.
In the office situations, your
doctor is out of the office and in surgery at the hospital.
Document
all office events!!
Use your PowerPoints, textbook, and notes to determine the
Problem
and your course of
Action.
*
You must indicate which scenarios are a 911 situation
!
1. You are performing venipuncture (drawing blood) on Mrs. Adams.
Suddenly, she begins to complain of
weakness, dizziness, and numbness and tingling in her hands and feet.
She has become very pale.
Problem:
Action:
2. An established patient stops by the office to have his blood pressure checked.
He is ½ an hour late since he
was caught in traffic.
Suddenly he clutches his chest and complains of severe squeezing chest pain radiating into
his neck.
He is short of breath, sweaty, nauseated, and very anxious.
Problem:
Action:
3. An elderly patient stops by the office on her way home from the mall where she believes she had a temporary
blackout.
She did not fall; she just was not sure how she got where she was in the store.
She is now somewhat
confused and complains of a headache, ringing in her ears, and you notice weakness on the left side of her face.
Problem:
Action:
4. You receive a telephone call from a mother regarding her 3-year-old son who has swallowed an unknown
substance from the cleaning supplies under the sink.
The child is awake and coherent.
His mouth is blistered and
there is some bleeding from her mouth.
Problem:
Action:
5. A patient calls in a panic regarding his wife who is also a patient.
They have been hiking at Irvine Lake and she
has been bitten on the arm by a large snake.
He thinks it might have been a rattlesnake.
Problem:
Action:
6. A patient calls about her 5-year-old son who has been stung by a bee.
He is having problems breathing, his
tongue and lips are swollen, and his skin is breaking out in blotches.
Problem:
Action:
7. You are at a
Twilight
Film Festival with a large centrally located screen, and many activities and concessions.
Towards the end of
Breaking Dawn,
during the birthing scene,
the young woman next to you rolls her eyes back
and slumps to the ground, twitching and foaming at the mouth.
Problem:
Action:
8. Your doctor has been detained at the hospital with an emergency procedure (the patients have been notified).
A
diabetic patient has been waiting for 45 minutes in the examining room.
He complained of a slight headache upon
arrival.
You notice that he is becoming increasingly irritable and informs you that he missed lunch to make this
appointment.
Problem:
Action:
9. Mr. Brown stops by your office to pay his bill.
You notice that he has lost a lot of weight since his last visit three
months ago.
He complains about being tired all the time.
His breath odor smells like he has been drinking.
He
also asks to use your restroom since he says, lately, he has “been drinking a lot of water and peeing like a
racehorse!”
Problem:
Action:
10. You are cooking pasta and boiling spaghetti sauce splashes on to your hand.
Immediately, you notice the skin
redden and blisters are starting to appear.
What do you do, and not
do?
Problem:
Action:
11. A mother, who is the patient, is in the waiting room with her active baby who swings his head into his mother’s
face.
Her nose immediately begins to bleed.
Problem:
Action
:
12. You are on your way home and stop to help at an auto accident that has just occurred.
The victim is bleeding
from a severe laceration on his lower arm.
Blood starts spurting from the wound.
He is trembling and looks dazed.
His skin is cold and clammy, and he complains of extreme weakness and thirst.
*Two Problems:
Action:
13. Patients are not due until the afternoon.
You are restocking the exam rooms while your fellow medical assistant
is up on a ladder and trying to pull old charts from the very top of the filing cabinet in order to scan into your new
EHR system.
You hear a crash and find the MA on the floor in front of the cabinet. Blood is flowing from a deep 2”
gash on her forehead and she seems disoriented and confused.
*Two Problems
Action:
14. Your daughter twists her ankle playing softball.
You don’t think she has a fracture, but the injury is swollen and
painful.
Problem
Action:
15.
It is a warm July afternoon, and you are out for your usual 10-mile run.
As you run through the park you notice
the runner coming toward you struggling and swaying.
He stops, vomits
, and collapses to the ground.
Problem
Action:
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