ILLINOIS CNA STATE EVALUATION EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔How to read a Fahrenheit and Centigrade thermometer? - ✔✔F= 0.2 of a degree
(short line)
C= 0.1 of a degree (long line)
Blue-oral and axillary thermometers- long/slender tips/pear shaped tip
Red-rectal termometers- stubby tips
✔✔Where do you throw away an ostomy? - ✔✔Facility approved bag
✔✔How does a Diabetic diet work? - ✔✔Give same amount of carbs, protein, fats
everyday at the same time.
✔✔What is a step you can take as a CNA to prevent resident poisoning? - ✔✔-Make
sure patients and residents cannot reach hazardous material
-Follow agency policy for storing personal care items
-Keep harmful products in their original containers
-Leave the original label on harmful products
-Read all labels carefully before using a product.
✔✔Residents with dementia is on the commode, how long should you leave them
alone? - ✔✔Never
✔✔What is PPE worn for? - ✔✔Contact precautions
✔✔What does rehabilitation and restorative nursing care focus on? - ✔✔The whole
person and what the person can do.
✔✔What is a bland diet? - ✔✔To reduce gastric irrigation
✔✔Arm pain is an example of.... - ✔✔Subjective data- the person tells you about that
you cannot observe through your senses (symptoms)
[objective- information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an observer (signs)]
✔✔How would you place the call light for a quadriplegic patient? - ✔✔If not able to
reach, check on the person often.
✔✔After providing the urinal for a patient.... - ✔✔ask them to close tightly to prevent
spills and call for help.
, ✔✔A CNA is aware that for stool collection... - ✔✔Must be 1/2 cup
must not be contaminated
✔✔A resident continues to call you Sally, his daughters name, what do you tell him? -
✔✔Ask him to tell you about his daughter Sally.
✔✔When do you give PM care? - ✔✔After lunch
Before bed
After visitors leave in the evening
✔✔A patient that is playing bingo receives a phone call. What do you do? - ✔✔Bring the
phone call to them in the activities area
bring them back to their room and close the door to give privacy
✔✔You answer a phone call for a resident while she is in the dining room and it is her
daughter, she asks you about her mothers condition and treatment.
What do you do? - ✔✔Refer daughters questions to nurse
✔✔A patient asks you for her blood pressure readings after you check it, What do you
do? - ✔✔Provide her the reading
✔✔Before helping a patient stand, you raise the head of the bed and let the patients
legs dangle, what does this do? - ✔✔This prevents orthostatic hypotension- low blood
pressure when person stands up
✔✔What do you do if a patients temperature is 101.2? - ✔✔Tell the nurse
✔✔What will the nurse most likely ask you to do if a patient is in shock? - ✔✔Keep the
person lying down.
If not injured, raise the feet 6 to 12 inches.---elevate the feet so blood will flow back to
the head.
Lower the feet if the position causes pain.
Maintain an open airway and control bleeding.
Begin CPR if cardiac arrest occurs.
✔✔What do you do to collect a female urine? - ✔✔Clean the perineal area with towel.
-Spread the labia with your thumb and index finger.
-Clean down the urethral area from front to back. Use clean towel for each stroke
-Keep the labia separated to collect the urine.
✔✔Where do you put catheters? - ✔✔On the bed frame, below the bladder.
✔✔Before shaving a resident, what do you check first? - ✔✔If they are on blood
thinners.
WITH SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔How to read a Fahrenheit and Centigrade thermometer? - ✔✔F= 0.2 of a degree
(short line)
C= 0.1 of a degree (long line)
Blue-oral and axillary thermometers- long/slender tips/pear shaped tip
Red-rectal termometers- stubby tips
✔✔Where do you throw away an ostomy? - ✔✔Facility approved bag
✔✔How does a Diabetic diet work? - ✔✔Give same amount of carbs, protein, fats
everyday at the same time.
✔✔What is a step you can take as a CNA to prevent resident poisoning? - ✔✔-Make
sure patients and residents cannot reach hazardous material
-Follow agency policy for storing personal care items
-Keep harmful products in their original containers
-Leave the original label on harmful products
-Read all labels carefully before using a product.
✔✔Residents with dementia is on the commode, how long should you leave them
alone? - ✔✔Never
✔✔What is PPE worn for? - ✔✔Contact precautions
✔✔What does rehabilitation and restorative nursing care focus on? - ✔✔The whole
person and what the person can do.
✔✔What is a bland diet? - ✔✔To reduce gastric irrigation
✔✔Arm pain is an example of.... - ✔✔Subjective data- the person tells you about that
you cannot observe through your senses (symptoms)
[objective- information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an observer (signs)]
✔✔How would you place the call light for a quadriplegic patient? - ✔✔If not able to
reach, check on the person often.
✔✔After providing the urinal for a patient.... - ✔✔ask them to close tightly to prevent
spills and call for help.
, ✔✔A CNA is aware that for stool collection... - ✔✔Must be 1/2 cup
must not be contaminated
✔✔A resident continues to call you Sally, his daughters name, what do you tell him? -
✔✔Ask him to tell you about his daughter Sally.
✔✔When do you give PM care? - ✔✔After lunch
Before bed
After visitors leave in the evening
✔✔A patient that is playing bingo receives a phone call. What do you do? - ✔✔Bring the
phone call to them in the activities area
bring them back to their room and close the door to give privacy
✔✔You answer a phone call for a resident while she is in the dining room and it is her
daughter, she asks you about her mothers condition and treatment.
What do you do? - ✔✔Refer daughters questions to nurse
✔✔A patient asks you for her blood pressure readings after you check it, What do you
do? - ✔✔Provide her the reading
✔✔Before helping a patient stand, you raise the head of the bed and let the patients
legs dangle, what does this do? - ✔✔This prevents orthostatic hypotension- low blood
pressure when person stands up
✔✔What do you do if a patients temperature is 101.2? - ✔✔Tell the nurse
✔✔What will the nurse most likely ask you to do if a patient is in shock? - ✔✔Keep the
person lying down.
If not injured, raise the feet 6 to 12 inches.---elevate the feet so blood will flow back to
the head.
Lower the feet if the position causes pain.
Maintain an open airway and control bleeding.
Begin CPR if cardiac arrest occurs.
✔✔What do you do to collect a female urine? - ✔✔Clean the perineal area with towel.
-Spread the labia with your thumb and index finger.
-Clean down the urethral area from front to back. Use clean towel for each stroke
-Keep the labia separated to collect the urine.
✔✔Where do you put catheters? - ✔✔On the bed frame, below the bladder.
✔✔Before shaving a resident, what do you check first? - ✔✔If they are on blood
thinners.
