Hartman’s Nursing Assistant Care |
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• Prosthesis -✓✓Device that replaces a missing/deformed body part (Ex: artificial limb,
breast, hearing aid, artificial eye, dentures)
• Range of motion (ROM) exercises -✓✓Exercises that put joints through their full arc of
motion in order to decrease or prevent contractures/atrophy, improve strength, and
increase circulation
• Correct way to remove a gown -✓✓Start from the top and work your way down
• What situations to use gloves for -✓✓Always wear gloves if you may come into
contact with blood, body fluids/secretions, broken or open skin, or mucous membranes
• How to communicate with visually impaired residents -✓✓Face them while speaking,
don't startle them, use the face of an imaginary clock as a guide to explain where things
are around them, etc
• Foot care for diabetic residents -✓✓Regular, daily inspection of the feet for irritation or
sores, make sure proper breathable footwear is worn and socks aren't too tight, and
never trim/clip toenails
• How to handle a resident falling -✓✓Never try to catch them or reverse a fall. Simply
bring the resident close to your body to brace them, and assist in lowering them to the
floor carefully to avoid injury for you both
• Minimum amount of time to wash hands -✓✓20 seconds
• Advance directives -✓✓Legal documents that allow people to decide what kind of
medical care they wish to have if they're unable to make those decisions themselves
• The most accurate site for taking temperature -✓✓Rectal
• A CNA's scope of practice -✓✓Performing assigned nursing tasks (ex: taking vitals),
providing personal care (ex: bathing), and accurately charting. CNAs cannot
insert/remove tubes, give tube feedings, change sterile dressings, or give medications.
• How to react when a resident tries to give you a gift -✓✓Politely refuse
, • Empathy -✓✓Identifying with the feelings of others
• How to check pulse -✓✓Place fingers on the inside of their wrist (radial pulse location;
this is the most common site for checking it) and count the heart beats for 1 full minute
• Physical abuse -✓✓Physical harm to a person's body
• Who to discuss resident's medical information with -✓✓Only those directly involved in
their care (ex: the resident's care team!)
• The essential nutrient for life -✓✓Water
• Objective information -✓✓Factual information collected using the senses of sight,
hearing, smell, and touch; also called signs
• Subjective information -✓✓Information that a person cannot or did not observe, but is
based on something reported to the person that may or may not be true; also called
symptoms.
• When is documentation (charting) done -✓✓Immediately after care is given
• Standard precautions -✓✓Treating blood and other body fluids, nonintact skin, and
mucous membranes as if they were infected. Must be used with every resident.
• True statements of handwashing -✓✓Wash hands with soap and water whenever
hands are visibly soiled and any time they've been contaminated by handling wastes,
body fluids, blood, etc. Make sure to lather all surfaces of wrists, hands, and fingers for
at least 20 seconds, rinse downward from your wrists to your fingertips, and do not re-
contaminate hands by touching any surface of the sink/faucet once they've been
washed
• Proper body mechanics -✓✓Bend with your knees, keep feet shoulder-width apart,
hold objects close to you while lifting/carrying, keep your back straight, pivot instead of
twisting your body when lifting/moving things, etc
• Signs of pressure injuries -✓✓Discolored skin, wounds on the skin, differences in skin
temperature in certain areas, complaints of tingling, warmth, or burning of skin, swelling,
itchy or dry/flaking skin, etc
• Physiological needs examples -✓✓Food, water, protection and shelter, activity, sleep
and rest, and comfort, especially freedom from pain
Exam Questions and Answers with
Complete Content Coverage | Grade
A+
• Prosthesis -✓✓Device that replaces a missing/deformed body part (Ex: artificial limb,
breast, hearing aid, artificial eye, dentures)
• Range of motion (ROM) exercises -✓✓Exercises that put joints through their full arc of
motion in order to decrease or prevent contractures/atrophy, improve strength, and
increase circulation
• Correct way to remove a gown -✓✓Start from the top and work your way down
• What situations to use gloves for -✓✓Always wear gloves if you may come into
contact with blood, body fluids/secretions, broken or open skin, or mucous membranes
• How to communicate with visually impaired residents -✓✓Face them while speaking,
don't startle them, use the face of an imaginary clock as a guide to explain where things
are around them, etc
• Foot care for diabetic residents -✓✓Regular, daily inspection of the feet for irritation or
sores, make sure proper breathable footwear is worn and socks aren't too tight, and
never trim/clip toenails
• How to handle a resident falling -✓✓Never try to catch them or reverse a fall. Simply
bring the resident close to your body to brace them, and assist in lowering them to the
floor carefully to avoid injury for you both
• Minimum amount of time to wash hands -✓✓20 seconds
• Advance directives -✓✓Legal documents that allow people to decide what kind of
medical care they wish to have if they're unable to make those decisions themselves
• The most accurate site for taking temperature -✓✓Rectal
• A CNA's scope of practice -✓✓Performing assigned nursing tasks (ex: taking vitals),
providing personal care (ex: bathing), and accurately charting. CNAs cannot
insert/remove tubes, give tube feedings, change sterile dressings, or give medications.
• How to react when a resident tries to give you a gift -✓✓Politely refuse
, • Empathy -✓✓Identifying with the feelings of others
• How to check pulse -✓✓Place fingers on the inside of their wrist (radial pulse location;
this is the most common site for checking it) and count the heart beats for 1 full minute
• Physical abuse -✓✓Physical harm to a person's body
• Who to discuss resident's medical information with -✓✓Only those directly involved in
their care (ex: the resident's care team!)
• The essential nutrient for life -✓✓Water
• Objective information -✓✓Factual information collected using the senses of sight,
hearing, smell, and touch; also called signs
• Subjective information -✓✓Information that a person cannot or did not observe, but is
based on something reported to the person that may or may not be true; also called
symptoms.
• When is documentation (charting) done -✓✓Immediately after care is given
• Standard precautions -✓✓Treating blood and other body fluids, nonintact skin, and
mucous membranes as if they were infected. Must be used with every resident.
• True statements of handwashing -✓✓Wash hands with soap and water whenever
hands are visibly soiled and any time they've been contaminated by handling wastes,
body fluids, blood, etc. Make sure to lather all surfaces of wrists, hands, and fingers for
at least 20 seconds, rinse downward from your wrists to your fingertips, and do not re-
contaminate hands by touching any surface of the sink/faucet once they've been
washed
• Proper body mechanics -✓✓Bend with your knees, keep feet shoulder-width apart,
hold objects close to you while lifting/carrying, keep your back straight, pivot instead of
twisting your body when lifting/moving things, etc
• Signs of pressure injuries -✓✓Discolored skin, wounds on the skin, differences in skin
temperature in certain areas, complaints of tingling, warmth, or burning of skin, swelling,
itchy or dry/flaking skin, etc
• Physiological needs examples -✓✓Food, water, protection and shelter, activity, sleep
and rest, and comfort, especially freedom from pain
