CRRN TEST 1 CERTIFICATION ACTUAL
EXAM PAPER 2026 FULL QUESTION BANK
WITH DETAILED EXPLANATIONS
⩥ What is an important travel tip for people with COPD? Answer: avoid
elevation above 4000 feet unless in a pressurized cabin
⩥ What produces esophageal speech? Answer: burping to exert pressure
and produce vibration
⩥ What is not included in a patient's occupational history? Answer: past
learning difficulties
⩥ Blindness of the nasal half of one eye and the temporal half of the
other is known as: Answer: homonymous hemianopsia
⩥ The terms perceived "susceptibility," "perceived threat," and "cues to
action" are important concepts in which nursing theory? Answer: health
belief model
⩥ What bladder disorder will MOST likely be present in a patient with a
CVA? Answer: uninhibited neurogenic bladder
,⩥ What is the legal definition of blindness? Answer: visual field
restriction of up to 20 degrees or central visual acuity in the better eye of
no more than 20/200
⩥ Pursed lip breathing improves oxygenation because it: Answer: keeps
the alveoli open longer
⩥ What is a result of injury to the satiety center? Answer: overeating
⩥ Tardive dyskinesia, associated with the prolonged use of psychotropic
drugs, may be assessed by instructing the patient to: Answer: grimace,
smile, frown, pucker, and chew
⩥ With normal capillary perfusion, the color will return within: Answer:
3 seconds
⩥ What is an appropriate nursing intervention for a pt. experiencing
physiological and/or psychosocial disturbances who has recently been
transferred from one environment to another? Answer: encourage pt's
verbalization of feelings
⩥ A patient who is unwilling to discuss his disability or to touch or look
at his involved body parts may have a nursing diagnosis of: Answer:
body image disturbance
, ⩥ What is a principle upon which learning depends? Answer: providing
for learner participation
⩥ Autonomous areflexic bladder dysfunction occurs when a lesion
involves: Answer: both the motor and sensory components of the sacral
segments of the spinal cord
⩥ Reflexogenic erections are possible when which spinal segments are
perserved? Answer: sacral
⩥ What is the Barthel Index? Answer: consists of 10 items that measure
a person's daily functioning specifically the activities of daily living and
mobility
⩥ What is a normal finding when assessing the skin of an elderly
person? Answer: decreased subcutaneous fat
⩥ What is the premise of the Bobath neurodevelopmental technique?
Answer: pt's learn the sensation of movement, not the movement itself
⩥ Sleep deprivation can result in: Answer: psychosis
⩥ A patient who presents with drooling or insufficiently chewed food
has a problem in which phase of the swallowing process? Answer: oral
EXAM PAPER 2026 FULL QUESTION BANK
WITH DETAILED EXPLANATIONS
⩥ What is an important travel tip for people with COPD? Answer: avoid
elevation above 4000 feet unless in a pressurized cabin
⩥ What produces esophageal speech? Answer: burping to exert pressure
and produce vibration
⩥ What is not included in a patient's occupational history? Answer: past
learning difficulties
⩥ Blindness of the nasal half of one eye and the temporal half of the
other is known as: Answer: homonymous hemianopsia
⩥ The terms perceived "susceptibility," "perceived threat," and "cues to
action" are important concepts in which nursing theory? Answer: health
belief model
⩥ What bladder disorder will MOST likely be present in a patient with a
CVA? Answer: uninhibited neurogenic bladder
,⩥ What is the legal definition of blindness? Answer: visual field
restriction of up to 20 degrees or central visual acuity in the better eye of
no more than 20/200
⩥ Pursed lip breathing improves oxygenation because it: Answer: keeps
the alveoli open longer
⩥ What is a result of injury to the satiety center? Answer: overeating
⩥ Tardive dyskinesia, associated with the prolonged use of psychotropic
drugs, may be assessed by instructing the patient to: Answer: grimace,
smile, frown, pucker, and chew
⩥ With normal capillary perfusion, the color will return within: Answer:
3 seconds
⩥ What is an appropriate nursing intervention for a pt. experiencing
physiological and/or psychosocial disturbances who has recently been
transferred from one environment to another? Answer: encourage pt's
verbalization of feelings
⩥ A patient who is unwilling to discuss his disability or to touch or look
at his involved body parts may have a nursing diagnosis of: Answer:
body image disturbance
, ⩥ What is a principle upon which learning depends? Answer: providing
for learner participation
⩥ Autonomous areflexic bladder dysfunction occurs when a lesion
involves: Answer: both the motor and sensory components of the sacral
segments of the spinal cord
⩥ Reflexogenic erections are possible when which spinal segments are
perserved? Answer: sacral
⩥ What is the Barthel Index? Answer: consists of 10 items that measure
a person's daily functioning specifically the activities of daily living and
mobility
⩥ What is a normal finding when assessing the skin of an elderly
person? Answer: decreased subcutaneous fat
⩥ What is the premise of the Bobath neurodevelopmental technique?
Answer: pt's learn the sensation of movement, not the movement itself
⩥ Sleep deprivation can result in: Answer: psychosis
⩥ A patient who presents with drooling or insufficiently chewed food
has a problem in which phase of the swallowing process? Answer: oral
