CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT CNA PRACTICE
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
100% VERIFIED.
Nursing assistants work in a lot of different places. One place that CNAs work is a
skilled nursing facility. This type of facility is also called a .
a. hospital
b. rehab center
c. hospice
d. nursing home*
Many people, particularly older people, go to what kind of healthcare facility after
they are discharged from a hospital after a stroke?
a. A subacute care center*
b. A hospice
c. A respite center
d. A group home
A CNA, MA, and RN all provide care for 10 patients in a sub-acute facility. What is
the term for this collaborative approach to patient care?
a. Group Care
b. Primary Care
c. Team Nursing*
d. Rehab
A CNA is covering another CNA's lunch break on another floor. She answers the
light for a patient who complains of chest pain. Who should the CNA report this
finding to?
a. Nurse*
b. Provider
c. Director of Nursing
d. The other CNA when back from lunch break
You are asked to complete a bed change for a 300 lb. patient who is immobile and
difficult to turn. You feel uncomfortable changing the bed yourself. What is your
next course of action?
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,a. Schedule a time with another nurse or CNA to have assistance during the bed
change. *
b. Complete the bed change yourself even though you are uncomfortable.
c. Wait until shift change to let the next shift take care of it.
d. Tell the patient that they do not need a bed change.
Which duties would be performed by a CNA in team nursing?
a. Assessment of the heart and lungs
b. Teaching physical therapy exercises
c. Taking Vital Signs and Blood Sugars Readings *
d. All of the above
The CNA can legally .
a. supervise other CNAs
b. teach other CNAs
c. mentor other CNAs
d. None of the above*
The director of nursing at your long term care nursing home has assigned you to
be in charge of the nursing home for the weekend because she is going away on
a cruise vacation to the Caribbean. What should you do?
a. Refuse to do the assignment *
b. Do the best you can do
c. Ask about the details
d. Call the owner
Which of the following actions is ethically wrong in the care of nursing home
residents?
a. The CNA remains right outside the bathroom door and instructs the patient to pull the
call light when they have finished urinating.
b. The CNA wipes the patient's finger with an alcohol swab prior to taking a blood
glucose level.
c. The CNA does not let a confused high-fall risk patient ambulate in the halls without
assistance.
d. The CNA chooses to*
A patient requires a dressing change for the first time after surgery. Which of the
following staff cannot legally change the patient's dressing immediately after
surgery?
a. CNA *
b. LPN
c. RN
d. MD
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,Which of the following is now the minimal requirement to be able to legally record
and document data, such as vital signs and blood sugar readings, within a
hospital setting?
a. Experience
b. Certification *
c. Licensure
d. College Degree
Who developed the Hierarchy of Needs?
a. Erikson
b. Piaget
c. Maslow *
d. Nightingale
The levels of the Hierarchy of Needs are ?
a. physical needs, safety and security needs, love and belonging needs, esteem needs
and self actualization *
b. need for freedom, need for resources, needs of self and needs of others
c. subjective needs, objective needs, data analysis and needs for resolution
d. integumentary system, respiratory system, nervous system and cardiac system
The CNA is working on a busy med-surg hospital floor and is caring for 10
patients. Vital signs are taken every 4 hours, with meals delivered at 0730, 12:30
and 5:30. It is currently 0900 and all patients have received their breakfast trays.
Last vital signs were taken at 0400. Which of the following is the highest priority?
a. A patient is requesting a full bed bath right now.
b. Taking vitals on all patients since they were not taken at 0800.
c. The patients have finished their meals and are requesting the trays to be taken from
the room.
d. A patient is complaining of chest pain after surgery and is requesting pain medicine. *
It is nearly time for your lunch break. A nurse is requesting assistance with an
incontinence bed change. Which of the following is not a proper response?
a. Gather supplies and assist the nurse with the bed change
b. Tell the nurse you cannot help as you are going on lunch *
c. Delay your lunch if needed to assist the nurse as possible
d. Request the CNA covering your lunch to assist the nurse
You are the CNA caring for Mrs. Thomas. You see a notation on the nursing care
plan that states, "ambulate at least 10 yards qid". This patient will be assisted
with ambulation at which of the following times?
a. 10 am
b. 10 am and 2 pm
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, c. 10 am, 2 pm and 6 pm
d. 10 am, 2 pm, 6 pm and 10 pm *
The RN asks you to bring the unit's collected lab specimens to the lab "stat". You
should .
a. not do this errand because CNAs do not do "stats".
b. run this errand as soon as you can.
c. run this errand immediately and without delay. *
d. Before the end of your shift or after your lunch.
Hospital policy states that patients on the medical floor should have vital signs
taken every 4 hours. Which of the following is an appropriate abbreviation for this
order?
a. V. Signs QID
b. VS q4 hrs *
c. Vital signs QOD
d. Vitals QD x 4
What does the medical abbreviation ADL stand for?
a. Activities of Daily Living *
b. Advantages of Disability and Life Insurance
c. Assessment of Depth and Length
d. All Day Long
You are caring for a patient with a BKA. What do you expect to see when entering
the patient's room related to this abbreviation when working with the patient?
a. A patient with an amputation below the knee *
b. A patient with tubes coming out of both kidneys
c. A blood sugar of 600 once you take a finger stick glucose
d. A patient with swollen legs from heart failure
Which of the following lists the five senses?
a. sight, hearing, taste, smell and common sense.
b. hearing, taste, smell, common sense and auditory.
c. sight, taste, smell, auditory and visual.
d. hearing, smell, taste, sight and touch. *
What senses do nursing assistants use to observe patients and residents?
a. Sight, hearing and touch *
b. Sight and hearing only
c. Sight and common sense only
d. Taste and hearing only
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EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
100% VERIFIED.
Nursing assistants work in a lot of different places. One place that CNAs work is a
skilled nursing facility. This type of facility is also called a .
a. hospital
b. rehab center
c. hospice
d. nursing home*
Many people, particularly older people, go to what kind of healthcare facility after
they are discharged from a hospital after a stroke?
a. A subacute care center*
b. A hospice
c. A respite center
d. A group home
A CNA, MA, and RN all provide care for 10 patients in a sub-acute facility. What is
the term for this collaborative approach to patient care?
a. Group Care
b. Primary Care
c. Team Nursing*
d. Rehab
A CNA is covering another CNA's lunch break on another floor. She answers the
light for a patient who complains of chest pain. Who should the CNA report this
finding to?
a. Nurse*
b. Provider
c. Director of Nursing
d. The other CNA when back from lunch break
You are asked to complete a bed change for a 300 lb. patient who is immobile and
difficult to turn. You feel uncomfortable changing the bed yourself. What is your
next course of action?
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,a. Schedule a time with another nurse or CNA to have assistance during the bed
change. *
b. Complete the bed change yourself even though you are uncomfortable.
c. Wait until shift change to let the next shift take care of it.
d. Tell the patient that they do not need a bed change.
Which duties would be performed by a CNA in team nursing?
a. Assessment of the heart and lungs
b. Teaching physical therapy exercises
c. Taking Vital Signs and Blood Sugars Readings *
d. All of the above
The CNA can legally .
a. supervise other CNAs
b. teach other CNAs
c. mentor other CNAs
d. None of the above*
The director of nursing at your long term care nursing home has assigned you to
be in charge of the nursing home for the weekend because she is going away on
a cruise vacation to the Caribbean. What should you do?
a. Refuse to do the assignment *
b. Do the best you can do
c. Ask about the details
d. Call the owner
Which of the following actions is ethically wrong in the care of nursing home
residents?
a. The CNA remains right outside the bathroom door and instructs the patient to pull the
call light when they have finished urinating.
b. The CNA wipes the patient's finger with an alcohol swab prior to taking a blood
glucose level.
c. The CNA does not let a confused high-fall risk patient ambulate in the halls without
assistance.
d. The CNA chooses to*
A patient requires a dressing change for the first time after surgery. Which of the
following staff cannot legally change the patient's dressing immediately after
surgery?
a. CNA *
b. LPN
c. RN
d. MD
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,Which of the following is now the minimal requirement to be able to legally record
and document data, such as vital signs and blood sugar readings, within a
hospital setting?
a. Experience
b. Certification *
c. Licensure
d. College Degree
Who developed the Hierarchy of Needs?
a. Erikson
b. Piaget
c. Maslow *
d. Nightingale
The levels of the Hierarchy of Needs are ?
a. physical needs, safety and security needs, love and belonging needs, esteem needs
and self actualization *
b. need for freedom, need for resources, needs of self and needs of others
c. subjective needs, objective needs, data analysis and needs for resolution
d. integumentary system, respiratory system, nervous system and cardiac system
The CNA is working on a busy med-surg hospital floor and is caring for 10
patients. Vital signs are taken every 4 hours, with meals delivered at 0730, 12:30
and 5:30. It is currently 0900 and all patients have received their breakfast trays.
Last vital signs were taken at 0400. Which of the following is the highest priority?
a. A patient is requesting a full bed bath right now.
b. Taking vitals on all patients since they were not taken at 0800.
c. The patients have finished their meals and are requesting the trays to be taken from
the room.
d. A patient is complaining of chest pain after surgery and is requesting pain medicine. *
It is nearly time for your lunch break. A nurse is requesting assistance with an
incontinence bed change. Which of the following is not a proper response?
a. Gather supplies and assist the nurse with the bed change
b. Tell the nurse you cannot help as you are going on lunch *
c. Delay your lunch if needed to assist the nurse as possible
d. Request the CNA covering your lunch to assist the nurse
You are the CNA caring for Mrs. Thomas. You see a notation on the nursing care
plan that states, "ambulate at least 10 yards qid". This patient will be assisted
with ambulation at which of the following times?
a. 10 am
b. 10 am and 2 pm
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, c. 10 am, 2 pm and 6 pm
d. 10 am, 2 pm, 6 pm and 10 pm *
The RN asks you to bring the unit's collected lab specimens to the lab "stat". You
should .
a. not do this errand because CNAs do not do "stats".
b. run this errand as soon as you can.
c. run this errand immediately and without delay. *
d. Before the end of your shift or after your lunch.
Hospital policy states that patients on the medical floor should have vital signs
taken every 4 hours. Which of the following is an appropriate abbreviation for this
order?
a. V. Signs QID
b. VS q4 hrs *
c. Vital signs QOD
d. Vitals QD x 4
What does the medical abbreviation ADL stand for?
a. Activities of Daily Living *
b. Advantages of Disability and Life Insurance
c. Assessment of Depth and Length
d. All Day Long
You are caring for a patient with a BKA. What do you expect to see when entering
the patient's room related to this abbreviation when working with the patient?
a. A patient with an amputation below the knee *
b. A patient with tubes coming out of both kidneys
c. A blood sugar of 600 once you take a finger stick glucose
d. A patient with swollen legs from heart failure
Which of the following lists the five senses?
a. sight, hearing, taste, smell and common sense.
b. hearing, taste, smell, common sense and auditory.
c. sight, taste, smell, auditory and visual.
d. hearing, smell, taste, sight and touch. *
What senses do nursing assistants use to observe patients and residents?
a. Sight, hearing and touch *
b. Sight and hearing only
c. Sight and common sense only
d. Taste and hearing only
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