SRNA Exam #3 Study Guide – Student Registered Nurse Aide Comprehensive Course Review &
Practice Assessment Material
Alopecia - ✔✔hair loss
Anticoagulant - ✔✔A medication that prevents or slows blood clotting
Bed bugs - ✔✔small, flat, red-brown insects that may live around or near areas where people
sleep and that feed on the blood of people and animals
Dandruff - ✔✔Excessive amounts of dry, white flakes from the scalp
Hirsutism - ✔✔excessive hair growth
Lice/ pediculosis - ✔✔infestation with wingless insects
Mite - ✔✔A very small spider-like organism
Pediculosis capitis - ✔✔infestation of the hair and scalp with head lice
Pediculosis corporis - ✔✔an infestation with body lice
Pediculosis pubis - ✔✔an infestation with lice in the pubic hair and pubic region
Anorexia - ✔✔The loss of appetite
Aspiration - ✔✔Breathing fluid, food, vomitus, or an object into the lungs
, Calorie - ✔✔the fuel or energy value of food
Daily Value - ✔✔how a serving fits into the daily diet; expressed in a percent based on a daily
diet of 2000 calories
Dehydration - ✔✔A decrease in the amount of water in body tissues
Dysphagia - ✔✔difficulty swallowing
Edema - ✔✔The swelling of body tissues with water
Graduate - ✔✔A measuring container for fluid
Intake - ✔✔the amount of fluid taken in
Nutrient - ✔✔A substance that is ingested, digested, absorbed, and used by the body
Nutrition - ✔✔The processes involved in the ingestion, digestion, absorption, and use of foods
and fluids by the body
Output - ✔✔The amount of fluid lost
Aspiration - ✔✔Breathing fluid, food, vomitus, or an object into the lungs
Enteral nutrition - ✔✔giving nutrients into the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract (enteral) through a
feeding tube
Practice Assessment Material
Alopecia - ✔✔hair loss
Anticoagulant - ✔✔A medication that prevents or slows blood clotting
Bed bugs - ✔✔small, flat, red-brown insects that may live around or near areas where people
sleep and that feed on the blood of people and animals
Dandruff - ✔✔Excessive amounts of dry, white flakes from the scalp
Hirsutism - ✔✔excessive hair growth
Lice/ pediculosis - ✔✔infestation with wingless insects
Mite - ✔✔A very small spider-like organism
Pediculosis capitis - ✔✔infestation of the hair and scalp with head lice
Pediculosis corporis - ✔✔an infestation with body lice
Pediculosis pubis - ✔✔an infestation with lice in the pubic hair and pubic region
Anorexia - ✔✔The loss of appetite
Aspiration - ✔✔Breathing fluid, food, vomitus, or an object into the lungs
, Calorie - ✔✔the fuel or energy value of food
Daily Value - ✔✔how a serving fits into the daily diet; expressed in a percent based on a daily
diet of 2000 calories
Dehydration - ✔✔A decrease in the amount of water in body tissues
Dysphagia - ✔✔difficulty swallowing
Edema - ✔✔The swelling of body tissues with water
Graduate - ✔✔A measuring container for fluid
Intake - ✔✔the amount of fluid taken in
Nutrient - ✔✔A substance that is ingested, digested, absorbed, and used by the body
Nutrition - ✔✔The processes involved in the ingestion, digestion, absorption, and use of foods
and fluids by the body
Output - ✔✔The amount of fluid lost
Aspiration - ✔✔Breathing fluid, food, vomitus, or an object into the lungs
Enteral nutrition - ✔✔giving nutrients into the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract (enteral) through a
feeding tube
