OHIO STNA UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Colostomy Care - ✔✔the care provided to clean and prevent infection for a
surgically-created opening through the abdominal wall into the large intestine to allow
feces to be expelled
✔✔Combative Resident - ✔✔resident with violent or hostile behavior.
✔✔Communicable - ✔✔contagious
✔✔Compensation - ✔✔payment
✔✔Competency Evaluation - ✔✔An assessment of the abilities of the nursing assistant
✔✔Conduct - ✔✔Heat transfer by direct contact
✔✔Contact Isolation - ✔✔used when caring for someone infected with pathogens that
can be transmitted directly or indirectly
✔✔Contamination - ✔✔the process of becoming unclean
, ✔✔Contracture - ✔✔Abnormal shortening of a muscle
✔✔COPD - ✔✔Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
✔✔Cueing - ✔✔Memory Prompt. Using words to get a response you want
✔✔Decubitus ulcer - ✔✔bed sore
✔✔De-escalation - ✔✔decreasing the use of force or resistance
✔✔Developmental disability - ✔✔insufficient development of the brain, dysfunction or
impairment
✔✔Developmental Process - ✔✔The process in which we all grow and develop.
✔✔Diastolic - ✔✔The pressure measured in the arteries while the ventricles are relaxed
(during diastole).
✔✔Dilate - ✔✔to make larger; expand
✔✔Dorsiflexion - ✔✔bending backward
✔✔Dressing - ✔✔a sterile covering placed over a wound is called a
✔✔Droplets - ✔✔A very small drop of fluid.
✔✔Dysphagia - ✔✔Difficulty swallowing
✔✔Dyspnea - ✔✔Difficulty breathing
✔✔Dysuria - ✔✔Painful urination
✔✔Edema - ✔✔Swelling
✔✔Emesis - ✔✔to vomit
✔✔Emesis basin - ✔✔Kidney shaped receptacle for fluids
✔✔Emphysema - ✔✔a condition in which the air sacs of the lungs are damaged and
enlarged, causing breathlessness.
✔✔Epilepsy - ✔✔chronic brain disorder characterized by recurrent seizure activity
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Colostomy Care - ✔✔the care provided to clean and prevent infection for a
surgically-created opening through the abdominal wall into the large intestine to allow
feces to be expelled
✔✔Combative Resident - ✔✔resident with violent or hostile behavior.
✔✔Communicable - ✔✔contagious
✔✔Compensation - ✔✔payment
✔✔Competency Evaluation - ✔✔An assessment of the abilities of the nursing assistant
✔✔Conduct - ✔✔Heat transfer by direct contact
✔✔Contact Isolation - ✔✔used when caring for someone infected with pathogens that
can be transmitted directly or indirectly
✔✔Contamination - ✔✔the process of becoming unclean
, ✔✔Contracture - ✔✔Abnormal shortening of a muscle
✔✔COPD - ✔✔Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
✔✔Cueing - ✔✔Memory Prompt. Using words to get a response you want
✔✔Decubitus ulcer - ✔✔bed sore
✔✔De-escalation - ✔✔decreasing the use of force or resistance
✔✔Developmental disability - ✔✔insufficient development of the brain, dysfunction or
impairment
✔✔Developmental Process - ✔✔The process in which we all grow and develop.
✔✔Diastolic - ✔✔The pressure measured in the arteries while the ventricles are relaxed
(during diastole).
✔✔Dilate - ✔✔to make larger; expand
✔✔Dorsiflexion - ✔✔bending backward
✔✔Dressing - ✔✔a sterile covering placed over a wound is called a
✔✔Droplets - ✔✔A very small drop of fluid.
✔✔Dysphagia - ✔✔Difficulty swallowing
✔✔Dyspnea - ✔✔Difficulty breathing
✔✔Dysuria - ✔✔Painful urination
✔✔Edema - ✔✔Swelling
✔✔Emesis - ✔✔to vomit
✔✔Emesis basin - ✔✔Kidney shaped receptacle for fluids
✔✔Emphysema - ✔✔a condition in which the air sacs of the lungs are damaged and
enlarged, causing breathlessness.
✔✔Epilepsy - ✔✔chronic brain disorder characterized by recurrent seizure activity
