MINNESOTA CNA LATEST ACTUAL 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Competency evaluation - ✔✔An assessment of mental health and/or decision
making capacity.
✔✔Conduct - ✔✔The manner in which a person behaves, especially on a particular
occasion or in a particular context.
✔✔Confidentiality - ✔✔The legal and ethical principle of keeping information private
✔✔Conflict resolution - ✔✔The process of resolving conflicts in appositive way so that
everyone is satisfied.
✔✔Confused resident - ✔✔A person (resident) with an inability to think clearly
✔✔Congestive heart failure - ✔✔A condition in which the heart muscle is damaged and
fails to pump effectively.
✔✔Constipation - ✔✔The inability to eliminate stool or the infrequent, difficult and often
painful elimination of hard dry stool.
✔✔Constrict - ✔✔To narrow
✔✔Contracture - ✔✔The permanent and often painful shortening of a muscle or tendon,
usually die to lack of activity.
✔✔COPD - ✔✔A disease that is characterized by chronic typically irreversible airway
obstruction resulting in a slowed rate of exhalation
✔✔Cultural - ✔✔Relating to a system of learned behaviors, practiced by a group of
people, which is considered to be the tradition of that people and is passed on from one
generation to the next.
✔✔CVA - ✔✔A sudden impairment or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary
motion that is caused by rupture or obstruction (as by a clot) of a blood vessel supplying
the brain and is accompanied by permanent damage of brain tissue.
✔✔Death & dying - ✔✔The end of the life of a person or organism and dying is to be on
the point of or approaching death.
✔✔De-escalation - ✔✔Refers to behavior that is intended to escape increasing the
conflict.
,✔✔Defense mechanism - ✔✔Unconscious behaviors used to release tension or cope
with stress.
✔✔Dehydration - ✔✔A serious condition that results from inadequate fluid in the body.
✔✔Delegation - ✔✔Transferring authority to a person for a specific task.
✔✔Dementia - ✔✔The serious loss of mental abilities, such as thinking, remembering,
reasoning and communicating.
✔✔Denture care - ✔✔The cleansing and maintenance of dentures.
✔✔Dentures - ✔✔Artificial teeth
✔✔Dependability - ✔✔The quality of being able to be counted on or relied upon.
✔✔Depression - ✔✔An illness that causes social withdrawal, lack of energy, and loss of
interest in activities, as well as other symptoms.
✔✔Development - ✔✔The process of maturation or growth.
✔✔Developmental disability - ✔✔Disabilities that are present at birth or emerge during
childhood that restrict physical or mental ability.
✔✔Diabetes - ✔✔A condition in which the pancreas produces too little insulin or does
not properly use insulin
✔✔Dialysis - ✔✔Process that cleans the body of wastes the kidneys cannot remove
due to kidney failure
✔✔Diet - ✔✔Food and drink regularly provided or consumed
✔✔Dietitian - ✔✔Health professionals that assess, diagnose and treat dietary and
nutritional problems at an individual.
✔✔Digestion - ✔✔The process pf preparing food physically and chemically so that it
can be absorbed into the cells.
✔✔Dirty linen - ✔✔Linen that has been contaminated with pathogens (microorganisms
that are capable of causing infection and disease)
✔✔Disease - ✔✔A condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that
impairs normal functioning and is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and
symptoms
, ✔✔Disease process - ✔✔The steps in the progression of a disease from exposure to
recovery, disability or death.
✔✔Disinfection - ✔✔Process that kills pathogens, but not all pathogens; it reduces the
pathogen count to a level that is considered not infectious.
✔✔Disoriented - ✔✔To be confused about a person, place or time
✔✔Disrespect - ✔✔Lack of respect or courtesy.
✔✔Dizziness - ✔✔A sensation of spinning around and losing one's balance.
✔✔DNR - ✔✔Do not resuscitate. A type of advance directive that instructs medical
professional not to perform CPR if a person's heartbeat or breathing stops.
✔✔Documentation - ✔✔Material that provides official information or evidence or that
serves as a record
✔✔Dressing - ✔✔Material used to cover a wound.
✔✔Droplets - ✔✔A very small drop of a liquid.
✔✔Dying - ✔✔Approaching death.
✔✔Dysphagia - ✔✔Difficulty swallowing.
✔✔Dyspnea - ✔✔Difficulty breathing.
✔✔Dysuria - ✔✔Difficult or painful discharge of urine.
✔✔Edema - ✔✔Swelling caused by excess fluid in body
✔✔Elastic stockings - ✔✔Stockings made of elastic which you wear on your legs to aid
circulation.
✔✔Elderly - ✔✔Of advanced age; old.
✔✔Elimination - ✔✔The process of expelling solid wastes (made up pf the waste
products of food) that are not absorbed into the cells.
✔✔Emesis - ✔✔The act of vomiting, or ejecting stomach contents through the mouth
and nose.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Competency evaluation - ✔✔An assessment of mental health and/or decision
making capacity.
✔✔Conduct - ✔✔The manner in which a person behaves, especially on a particular
occasion or in a particular context.
✔✔Confidentiality - ✔✔The legal and ethical principle of keeping information private
✔✔Conflict resolution - ✔✔The process of resolving conflicts in appositive way so that
everyone is satisfied.
✔✔Confused resident - ✔✔A person (resident) with an inability to think clearly
✔✔Congestive heart failure - ✔✔A condition in which the heart muscle is damaged and
fails to pump effectively.
✔✔Constipation - ✔✔The inability to eliminate stool or the infrequent, difficult and often
painful elimination of hard dry stool.
✔✔Constrict - ✔✔To narrow
✔✔Contracture - ✔✔The permanent and often painful shortening of a muscle or tendon,
usually die to lack of activity.
✔✔COPD - ✔✔A disease that is characterized by chronic typically irreversible airway
obstruction resulting in a slowed rate of exhalation
✔✔Cultural - ✔✔Relating to a system of learned behaviors, practiced by a group of
people, which is considered to be the tradition of that people and is passed on from one
generation to the next.
✔✔CVA - ✔✔A sudden impairment or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary
motion that is caused by rupture or obstruction (as by a clot) of a blood vessel supplying
the brain and is accompanied by permanent damage of brain tissue.
✔✔Death & dying - ✔✔The end of the life of a person or organism and dying is to be on
the point of or approaching death.
✔✔De-escalation - ✔✔Refers to behavior that is intended to escape increasing the
conflict.
,✔✔Defense mechanism - ✔✔Unconscious behaviors used to release tension or cope
with stress.
✔✔Dehydration - ✔✔A serious condition that results from inadequate fluid in the body.
✔✔Delegation - ✔✔Transferring authority to a person for a specific task.
✔✔Dementia - ✔✔The serious loss of mental abilities, such as thinking, remembering,
reasoning and communicating.
✔✔Denture care - ✔✔The cleansing and maintenance of dentures.
✔✔Dentures - ✔✔Artificial teeth
✔✔Dependability - ✔✔The quality of being able to be counted on or relied upon.
✔✔Depression - ✔✔An illness that causes social withdrawal, lack of energy, and loss of
interest in activities, as well as other symptoms.
✔✔Development - ✔✔The process of maturation or growth.
✔✔Developmental disability - ✔✔Disabilities that are present at birth or emerge during
childhood that restrict physical or mental ability.
✔✔Diabetes - ✔✔A condition in which the pancreas produces too little insulin or does
not properly use insulin
✔✔Dialysis - ✔✔Process that cleans the body of wastes the kidneys cannot remove
due to kidney failure
✔✔Diet - ✔✔Food and drink regularly provided or consumed
✔✔Dietitian - ✔✔Health professionals that assess, diagnose and treat dietary and
nutritional problems at an individual.
✔✔Digestion - ✔✔The process pf preparing food physically and chemically so that it
can be absorbed into the cells.
✔✔Dirty linen - ✔✔Linen that has been contaminated with pathogens (microorganisms
that are capable of causing infection and disease)
✔✔Disease - ✔✔A condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that
impairs normal functioning and is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and
symptoms
, ✔✔Disease process - ✔✔The steps in the progression of a disease from exposure to
recovery, disability or death.
✔✔Disinfection - ✔✔Process that kills pathogens, but not all pathogens; it reduces the
pathogen count to a level that is considered not infectious.
✔✔Disoriented - ✔✔To be confused about a person, place or time
✔✔Disrespect - ✔✔Lack of respect or courtesy.
✔✔Dizziness - ✔✔A sensation of spinning around and losing one's balance.
✔✔DNR - ✔✔Do not resuscitate. A type of advance directive that instructs medical
professional not to perform CPR if a person's heartbeat or breathing stops.
✔✔Documentation - ✔✔Material that provides official information or evidence or that
serves as a record
✔✔Dressing - ✔✔Material used to cover a wound.
✔✔Droplets - ✔✔A very small drop of a liquid.
✔✔Dying - ✔✔Approaching death.
✔✔Dysphagia - ✔✔Difficulty swallowing.
✔✔Dyspnea - ✔✔Difficulty breathing.
✔✔Dysuria - ✔✔Difficult or painful discharge of urine.
✔✔Edema - ✔✔Swelling caused by excess fluid in body
✔✔Elastic stockings - ✔✔Stockings made of elastic which you wear on your legs to aid
circulation.
✔✔Elderly - ✔✔Of advanced age; old.
✔✔Elimination - ✔✔The process of expelling solid wastes (made up pf the waste
products of food) that are not absorbed into the cells.
✔✔Emesis - ✔✔The act of vomiting, or ejecting stomach contents through the mouth
and nose.
