CNA MAIN EXMINATION SET TEST QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Saliva - ✔✔softens food in the mouth making it easier to swallow; helps break down
food into simpler forms; secreted by glands in the mouth
✔✔Chyme - ✔✔A semi-liquid mixture of food and gastric juices. Produced in the
stomach, from which it passes into the small intestine.
✔✔Rectum - ✔✔Feces pass through the colon into the ______?
✔✔Urinary system - ✔✔Cleanses the blood. Rids the body of wastes. Maintains salt
and water balance within the body
✔✔Urethra - ✔✔Urine passes from the bladder through the _______?
✔✔Meatus - ✔✔Opening at the end of the urethra; what urine passes through
✔✔Insulin - ✔✔The pancreas secretes what ______?
✔✔Gonads - ✔✔Glands of human reproduction
✔✔Testes - ✔✔Male sex glands
✔✔Testosterone - ✔✔Testes secrete what?
✔✔Ovaries - ✔✔Female sex glands
✔✔Estrogen - ✔✔Ovaries secrete what?
✔✔Gerontology - ✔✔the study of aging and the elderly
✔✔Geriatrics - ✔✔the care of aging people
✔✔Paralysis - ✔✔Loss of muscle function, sensation, or both
✔✔Cyanotic - ✔✔Bluish color
✔✔Material Safety Data Sheet - ✔✔MSDS
✔✔Rescue, Alarm, Confine, Extinguish - ✔✔"RACE"
✔✔Elopement - ✔✔when a person leaves the agency without staff knowledge
, ✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Administration - ✔✔OSHA
✔✔OSHA - ✔✔A government organization whose mission is to assure the safety and
health of America's workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training,
outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual
improvement in workplace safety and health.
✔✔During shift changes - ✔✔Falls are most likely to occur when?
✔✔Gait belt - ✔✔name given to a transfer belt when it is used to assist a resident when
walking
✔✔Asepsis - ✔✔Being free of disease-producing microbes
✔✔Sterile - ✔✔Absence of all microbes
✔✔Mask, gown, gloves - ✔✔Putting on PPE
✔✔Gloves, gown, mask - ✔✔Removing PPE
✔✔Body alignment - ✔✔The way the head, trunk, arms, and legs are aligned with one
another
✔✔2 - ✔✔Reposition a person every ______ hours
✔✔Fowler's position - ✔✔The head of the bed is between 45 an 60 degrees
✔✔Supine position - ✔✔lying on back, facing upward
✔✔Prone position - ✔✔Lying on the abdomen with the head turned to one side
✔✔Lateral position - ✔✔Side lying position
✔✔Head of Bed - ✔✔H.O.B
✔✔Sims' position - ✔✔Left side-lying position. The upper leg is sharply flexed so it is
not on the lower leg. The lower arm is behind the person
✔✔Friction - ✔✔The rubbing of 1 surface against another
✔✔Shearing - ✔✔When the skin sticks to a surface while muscles slide in the direction
the body is moving
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Saliva - ✔✔softens food in the mouth making it easier to swallow; helps break down
food into simpler forms; secreted by glands in the mouth
✔✔Chyme - ✔✔A semi-liquid mixture of food and gastric juices. Produced in the
stomach, from which it passes into the small intestine.
✔✔Rectum - ✔✔Feces pass through the colon into the ______?
✔✔Urinary system - ✔✔Cleanses the blood. Rids the body of wastes. Maintains salt
and water balance within the body
✔✔Urethra - ✔✔Urine passes from the bladder through the _______?
✔✔Meatus - ✔✔Opening at the end of the urethra; what urine passes through
✔✔Insulin - ✔✔The pancreas secretes what ______?
✔✔Gonads - ✔✔Glands of human reproduction
✔✔Testes - ✔✔Male sex glands
✔✔Testosterone - ✔✔Testes secrete what?
✔✔Ovaries - ✔✔Female sex glands
✔✔Estrogen - ✔✔Ovaries secrete what?
✔✔Gerontology - ✔✔the study of aging and the elderly
✔✔Geriatrics - ✔✔the care of aging people
✔✔Paralysis - ✔✔Loss of muscle function, sensation, or both
✔✔Cyanotic - ✔✔Bluish color
✔✔Material Safety Data Sheet - ✔✔MSDS
✔✔Rescue, Alarm, Confine, Extinguish - ✔✔"RACE"
✔✔Elopement - ✔✔when a person leaves the agency without staff knowledge
, ✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Administration - ✔✔OSHA
✔✔OSHA - ✔✔A government organization whose mission is to assure the safety and
health of America's workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training,
outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual
improvement in workplace safety and health.
✔✔During shift changes - ✔✔Falls are most likely to occur when?
✔✔Gait belt - ✔✔name given to a transfer belt when it is used to assist a resident when
walking
✔✔Asepsis - ✔✔Being free of disease-producing microbes
✔✔Sterile - ✔✔Absence of all microbes
✔✔Mask, gown, gloves - ✔✔Putting on PPE
✔✔Gloves, gown, mask - ✔✔Removing PPE
✔✔Body alignment - ✔✔The way the head, trunk, arms, and legs are aligned with one
another
✔✔2 - ✔✔Reposition a person every ______ hours
✔✔Fowler's position - ✔✔The head of the bed is between 45 an 60 degrees
✔✔Supine position - ✔✔lying on back, facing upward
✔✔Prone position - ✔✔Lying on the abdomen with the head turned to one side
✔✔Lateral position - ✔✔Side lying position
✔✔Head of Bed - ✔✔H.O.B
✔✔Sims' position - ✔✔Left side-lying position. The upper leg is sharply flexed so it is
not on the lower leg. The lower arm is behind the person
✔✔Friction - ✔✔The rubbing of 1 surface against another
✔✔Shearing - ✔✔When the skin sticks to a surface while muscles slide in the direction
the body is moving
