ILLINOIS CNA STATE EXAM SCRIPT 2025 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔How do you take a 24-hour urine specimen? - ✔✔Start with an empty bladder
1). Person voids to begin the test with an empty bladder---discard it
2). Save all the voiding for the next 24-hours.
Tes is restarted if:
-a voiding was not saved
-toilet tissue was discarded into the specimen
-the specimen contains stools
✔✔You answer the phone but the person meant to call a different unit, what do you do?
- ✔✔Transfer the call.
(pg.56)
✔✔A resident wth dementia is getting agitated and thinks he lost his keys, what do you
do? - ✔✔Tell him you will help him find his keys
✔✔What do you do to a room when a resident checks out? - ✔✔Disinfect the room.
✔✔A resident is in isolation.
What do you do with their food tray when they done eating? - ✔✔Double bag outside
the room and send it to the kitchen.
✔✔What do you do with a residents BM when you empty their colostomy bag? -
✔✔Flush in the toilet
✔✔How many times do you ambulate a resident when the care plan states ambulate
with BID? - ✔✔BID- twice a day
TID- Three times a day
QID- Four times a day
✔✔You walk into a room and there is a trash can on fire. What is the first thing you
should do? - ✔✔Remove/protect the residents.
R-remove resident
A-alarm
C-confine, close doors
E-evacuate
✔✔How should a gait belt be applied? - ✔✔Over clothes with buckle off center
✔✔How should an cold compress be applied? - ✔✔With cloth bag = Ice pack
, ✔✔What do you do with person in shock? - ✔✔Make the person lie down and elevate
the legs
✔✔When transferring someone with a gait belt, how should your hands be positioned? -
✔✔Underhand grasp
✔✔During rehab, where do you focus:
A). on patient's abilities
B). on patient's disabilities - ✔✔On patient's abilities- what they can do
✔✔Where do you walk if the person has right-sided weakness? - ✔✔Towards his weak
side
✔✔How do you apply TED hose? - ✔✔While residents is lying in bed- supine position
✔✔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
✔✔Resident was alert and is now hard to arouse and unresponsive. What do you do? -
✔✔Tell the nurse
✔✔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
✔✔Can a urine contaminate a stool sample? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔What is PPE worn for? - ✔✔Contact precautions
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔How do you take a 24-hour urine specimen? - ✔✔Start with an empty bladder
1). Person voids to begin the test with an empty bladder---discard it
2). Save all the voiding for the next 24-hours.
Tes is restarted if:
-a voiding was not saved
-toilet tissue was discarded into the specimen
-the specimen contains stools
✔✔You answer the phone but the person meant to call a different unit, what do you do?
- ✔✔Transfer the call.
(pg.56)
✔✔A resident wth dementia is getting agitated and thinks he lost his keys, what do you
do? - ✔✔Tell him you will help him find his keys
✔✔What do you do to a room when a resident checks out? - ✔✔Disinfect the room.
✔✔A resident is in isolation.
What do you do with their food tray when they done eating? - ✔✔Double bag outside
the room and send it to the kitchen.
✔✔What do you do with a residents BM when you empty their colostomy bag? -
✔✔Flush in the toilet
✔✔How many times do you ambulate a resident when the care plan states ambulate
with BID? - ✔✔BID- twice a day
TID- Three times a day
QID- Four times a day
✔✔You walk into a room and there is a trash can on fire. What is the first thing you
should do? - ✔✔Remove/protect the residents.
R-remove resident
A-alarm
C-confine, close doors
E-evacuate
✔✔How should a gait belt be applied? - ✔✔Over clothes with buckle off center
✔✔How should an cold compress be applied? - ✔✔With cloth bag = Ice pack
, ✔✔What do you do with person in shock? - ✔✔Make the person lie down and elevate
the legs
✔✔When transferring someone with a gait belt, how should your hands be positioned? -
✔✔Underhand grasp
✔✔During rehab, where do you focus:
A). on patient's abilities
B). on patient's disabilities - ✔✔On patient's abilities- what they can do
✔✔Where do you walk if the person has right-sided weakness? - ✔✔Towards his weak
side
✔✔How do you apply TED hose? - ✔✔While residents is lying in bed- supine position
✔✔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
✔✔Resident was alert and is now hard to arouse and unresponsive. What do you do? -
✔✔Tell the nurse
✔✔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
✔✔Can a urine contaminate a stool sample? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔What is PPE worn for? - ✔✔Contact precautions
