ILLINOIS CNA STATE STUDY GUIDE 2025 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What does HIPAA mean? - ✔✔Health insurance portability and accountability act
This law protects the privacy and security of a residents health information
✔✔Define Malpractice - ✔✔Negligence by a professional
✔✔Define Battery - ✔✔Touching a person's body without his or her consent
✔✔Define Assault - ✔✔Intentionally attempting of threatening to touch a person's body
without the persons consent.
✔✔Define Tort - ✔✔A wrong committed against a person or the person's property.
✔✔Define Defamation - ✔✔Injuring a person's name and reputation by making false
statements to a third person.
✔✔Define Slander - ✔✔Making false statements through the spoken word, sounds, sign
language, or gestures.
✔✔What is Medicaid? - ✔✔Insurance funded by the government and states. People
and families with low income usually qualify. Covers children and older, blind, and
disabled persons.
✔✔What is Medicare? - ✔✔A federal program for people of 65 years or older.
✔✔What are the three different long term care levels? - ✔✔1. Nursing Homes
2. Nursing Facilities
3. Nursing Centers
✔✔What is Aphasia? - ✔✔The total or partial loss of the ability to use or understand
language
✔✔What is an autoclave? - ✔✔A pressure steam sterilizer
✔✔What do sterilization methods do? - ✔✔Sterilization destroys all microorganisms
✔✔What items should you disinfect regularly? - ✔✔Blood Pressure Cuffs
Commodes
Metal Bed Pans
Wheelchairs and Stretchers
Furniture
, ✔✔Define Spores - ✔✔Bacteria protected by a hard shell and it cannot be destroyed
✔✔What is organic matter? - ✔✔Comes from living plants and animals and is able to
decay. Ex: blood, body fluids, and food.
✔✔What does it mean to delegate? - ✔✔To authorize another person to perform
nursing tasks in a certain situation.
✔✔What is liability insurance? - ✔✔Protects a person from being sued in a business.
✔✔What are the 5 steps to the nursing process? - ✔✔1. Assessment
2. Nursing Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
✔✔Define Antiseptic - ✔✔An agent that prevents the growth and activity of
microorganisms but doesn't necessarily kill pathogens
✔✔Define sterile - ✔✔Object or area free of all microorganisms
✔✔Define Clean - ✔✔Free from known pathogenic microorganisms
-not sterile
✔✔Define dirty - ✔✔Unclean-contains microorganisms that may be pathogenic and/or
non-pathogenic
✔✔Define contaminated - ✔✔Dirty
✔✔Define culture - ✔✔Sample of microorganism-usually "grown" to determine which
medication will control or destroy the microorganisms
- sometimes referred to as a culture and sensitivity or C & S
✔✔Define isolation - ✔✔The process of isolating or being isolated and apart from
others. To prevent further spread of microorganisms
✔✔Define portal - ✔✔"Door" of entry into the body
Example: mouth, ears, nose, rectum, vagina, urethra, open lesions on skin
✔✔Nosocomial infection - ✔✔A disease acquired in a hospital or clinical setting through
cross- infection
✔✔What does D.A.V.I.D stand for? - ✔✔Microorganisms are spread by:
SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What does HIPAA mean? - ✔✔Health insurance portability and accountability act
This law protects the privacy and security of a residents health information
✔✔Define Malpractice - ✔✔Negligence by a professional
✔✔Define Battery - ✔✔Touching a person's body without his or her consent
✔✔Define Assault - ✔✔Intentionally attempting of threatening to touch a person's body
without the persons consent.
✔✔Define Tort - ✔✔A wrong committed against a person or the person's property.
✔✔Define Defamation - ✔✔Injuring a person's name and reputation by making false
statements to a third person.
✔✔Define Slander - ✔✔Making false statements through the spoken word, sounds, sign
language, or gestures.
✔✔What is Medicaid? - ✔✔Insurance funded by the government and states. People
and families with low income usually qualify. Covers children and older, blind, and
disabled persons.
✔✔What is Medicare? - ✔✔A federal program for people of 65 years or older.
✔✔What are the three different long term care levels? - ✔✔1. Nursing Homes
2. Nursing Facilities
3. Nursing Centers
✔✔What is Aphasia? - ✔✔The total or partial loss of the ability to use or understand
language
✔✔What is an autoclave? - ✔✔A pressure steam sterilizer
✔✔What do sterilization methods do? - ✔✔Sterilization destroys all microorganisms
✔✔What items should you disinfect regularly? - ✔✔Blood Pressure Cuffs
Commodes
Metal Bed Pans
Wheelchairs and Stretchers
Furniture
, ✔✔Define Spores - ✔✔Bacteria protected by a hard shell and it cannot be destroyed
✔✔What is organic matter? - ✔✔Comes from living plants and animals and is able to
decay. Ex: blood, body fluids, and food.
✔✔What does it mean to delegate? - ✔✔To authorize another person to perform
nursing tasks in a certain situation.
✔✔What is liability insurance? - ✔✔Protects a person from being sued in a business.
✔✔What are the 5 steps to the nursing process? - ✔✔1. Assessment
2. Nursing Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
✔✔Define Antiseptic - ✔✔An agent that prevents the growth and activity of
microorganisms but doesn't necessarily kill pathogens
✔✔Define sterile - ✔✔Object or area free of all microorganisms
✔✔Define Clean - ✔✔Free from known pathogenic microorganisms
-not sterile
✔✔Define dirty - ✔✔Unclean-contains microorganisms that may be pathogenic and/or
non-pathogenic
✔✔Define contaminated - ✔✔Dirty
✔✔Define culture - ✔✔Sample of microorganism-usually "grown" to determine which
medication will control or destroy the microorganisms
- sometimes referred to as a culture and sensitivity or C & S
✔✔Define isolation - ✔✔The process of isolating or being isolated and apart from
others. To prevent further spread of microorganisms
✔✔Define portal - ✔✔"Door" of entry into the body
Example: mouth, ears, nose, rectum, vagina, urethra, open lesions on skin
✔✔Nosocomial infection - ✔✔A disease acquired in a hospital or clinical setting through
cross- infection
✔✔What does D.A.V.I.D stand for? - ✔✔Microorganisms are spread by:
