Question | Answer |
MANY medical assistants are taking the certification exam | Limiting adjective: Many describes the noun assistants and is used as an adjective |
MANY of the medical assistants are taking the certificatin exam. | Pronoun: many is used alone as a subject pronoun |
WHAT time is it, Bill? | Interrogative adjective: they ask direct or indirect questions |
The left ventricle is MORE MUSCULAR than the right ventricle | Comparative adjectives: compares two things |
This labe report is the LONGEST ONE of all the reports. | Superlative adjectives: compare three or more things |
PATIENT RECORDS ARE KNOWN AS CHARTS. | Simple Sentences: Has one independent clause and no dependent clause. |
MEDICAL ASEPSIS INVOLVES PROCEDURES TO REDUCE MICROORGANISMS, AND HAND WASHING IS THE FIRST STEP IN THE PROCESS. | Compound Sentences: Contains two or more independent clauses but no dependent clause. |
AFTER THE PROCEDURE WAS DONE, CHRISTOPHER'S MAJOR COMPLAINT WAS FATIGUE. | Complex sentence: has one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. |
THE MEDICAL ASSISTANT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FILING | Declarative Sentences: declares some type of information or statement |
MAKE THE MARGINS ONE INCH ON EITHER SIDE OF THE REPORT. | Imperative sentences: give a command or make a request. |
WHAT IS THE ETIOLOGY OF THAT DISEASE? | Interrogative sentences: ask direct questions and end with a question mark. |
STAT! | Exclamatory sentences: express strong emotions. |
Dr. Spencer is a SURGEON and a GYNECOLOGIST. | Parallel Structure: expressed in the same grammatical construction. |
I AM the nurse in charge. | Being Verbs: express a state of being. |
The ideal goal of treatment IS blood glucose normalization. | Common linking verbs |
The anesthesiologist INTUBATED the patient. | Transitive verb: shows action and needs a direct object. |
The surgeon SUTURED. | Intransitive verbs: show action but do not have a direct object. |
TO WORK in the medical professions is noble. | infinitive verb: has the word TO plus a verb. |
Active verb? | the subject is doing the verb: Bob mailed the letter. |
Passive verb? | the subject is receiver of the action:The letter was mailed by Bob. |
Indicative verb? | States a fact or asks a question. |
Imperative verb? | Makes a request, gives a command or instruction |
Subjunctive verb? | Expresses a command, preference, strong request or condition contrary to fact. |
myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, themselves. | Reflexive Pronouns: reflect back to the person |
who, whom, whose, which, what, that | Relative Pronouns: helps to join a relative clause to the rest of the sentence. |
all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, each one, either, everybody, everyone, | Indefinite Pronouns: refer to persons or things in general. |
this, that, these, those | Demonstrative Pronouns |
Personal | refers to persons: I, me, my, mine, |
reflexive | reflects throws back: myself, yourself, himself |
relative | relates to other words:who, whom, which, what |
indefinite | refers to persons or things in general:all, another, any, anybody |
Interrogative | asks questions:who, whom, whose, |
demonstrative | points out: this, that |
Memo | a written message to coworkers in the same company |
email | a computer-to-computer communication system that transmits messages electronically |
adverbs | an adverb is a word that describes a verb |
I ALWAYS remember | Frequency Adverbs: describe an amount of time |
Prepositions | shows how a noun or pronoun is related to another word or group of words in a sentence. |
Sociology is the study OF the origins OF society | Preposition |
Prepositional phrase | begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun that is its object. |
Correlative conjunctions | consist of two elements used as pairs to connect parallel structures: BOTH the doctor AND the nurse were present. |
EITHER I OR my assistant will be in the ER. | Correlative conjunctions |
Subordinating conjunctions | begins an adverb clause and joins the clause to the sentence |
Phrases | group of words without a subject or a predicate |
Prepositional Phrase | group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun that is its object. |
Descriptive Paragraph | is a pictorial representation in words that appears in most types of writing. |
Expository Paragraph | is the most common type of paragraph. It's purpose is to inform explain, or define something. |
Persuasive Paragraph | is written to urge the reader to follow a certain course of action. |
Structure of a paragraph | Topic sentence, supporting sentences, Concluding sentence |
Eponyms | EPSTEIN-BARR virus or BELL'S palsy. used frequently to medical documentation. A proper noun |
HIPAA | Health Insurance portability and Accountability Act. |
When was HIPAA formed | 1996 |
What does HIPAA do? | Provide national standards to ensure patient privacy and confidentiality. |
What features are essential when charting data in medical records? | Documentation, Signature, Abbreviations, Timeliness, Legibility, Accuracy, Writing Style, Organization. |
Structure of a Memo | To, From, Subject (Re:), date, and message |
What is the writing style of a memo | direct, concise and clear. |
Where is the most important message of a memo? | in the first line, followed by any necessary detailed or supportive information. |
In a memo what does C: stand for? | copies and where they were sent to. |
ENC: | enclosed and what is found |
When are commas used? | In a series, between two adjectives before a noun, before and, but, nor, yet following an indepentdent clause, around unneccessary clauses and phrases, following introductory elements, around parenthetical expressions, and around appositives. |
When are semicolons used? | between independent clauses not joined by coordinating conjunction, between independent clauses joined by however, hence, that is, therefore,ect., and separating elements in a series that contain commas. |
When are colons used? | Preceding a series, list, or outline that is introduced by a complete sentence, between minutes and hours in expressions of time, following the salutation of a business letter. |
When are parentheses used? | around added information unrelated to the main thought, around words added to clarify the sentence, around numbers or letters that designate enumerations of list items within a sentence |
When are hyphens used? | compound words, syllables, with written numbers 21 to 99, in written fractions, between a prefix and the base word. |
When are italics used? | for names of books, magazines, works of art, biological names, foreign expressions. |
The two most common styles of formal letters? | Block style and the modified block style. |
What are the components of a letter? | Heading, inside address, salutation, body, closing and signature and maybe other notations. |
What is the heading of a letter? | includes the letterhead and the date line. |
What is the inside address? | gives the name and address of the person or facility to which the letter is going. |
What is the Salutation? | is the greeting of the letter. |
Envelopes with windows fold letter how many times? | 3 steps: bring the bottom third of the letter up and fold then fold the top part back to the fold made in step one, and put in envelope. |
Spaces between letter heading and date? | 3 spaces |
spaces between date and inside address? | 4 spaces |
spaces between inside address and salutation? | 2 spaces |
spaces between salutation and body of letter? | 2 spaces |
spaces between body of letter and closing? | 2 spaces |
spaces between closing and typed signature? | 4 spaces |
spaces between typed signature and typist's initials? | 2 spaces |
spaces between typist's initials and C:, Enc, or P.S. | 2 spaces |