MINNESOTA CNA 2026/2027 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Infection prevention - ✔✔The set of methods practiced in healthcare facilities to
prevent and control the spread of disease.
✔✔In-house transfer - ✔✔Move from one room to another.
✔✔Initial observations - ✔✔The measurement that you take before you start any
process that might cause a change.
✔✔In-service programs - ✔✔A professional training or staff development effort, where
professionals are trained and discuss their work with others in their peer group. It is a
key component of continuing health care education.
✔✔Insomnia - ✔✔The inability to fall asleep or remain asleep.
✔✔Intake - ✔✔The fluid a person consumes, also called input
✔✔Intake and output - ✔✔Measure of fluid taken in and voided.
✔✔Integumentary system - ✔✔Outer covering of skin, also hair and nails.
✔✔Interpersonal skills - ✔✔The set of abilities enabling a person to interact positively
and work effectively with others. Communication skills.
✔✔Isolation - ✔✔To separate something or someone.
✔✔Isolation precautions - ✔✔The voluntary or compulsory separation and confinement
of those known or suspected to be infected with a contagious disease agent (whether ill
or not) to prevent further infections.
✔✔IV care - ✔✔IV lines are used to deliver different types of fluids, medications, and
blood products to patients. The catheter or the "line" is a thin, flexible plastic tube. A
trained health care provider inserts the line into a vein in the hand, arm, foot, leg, or
scalp. Fluid flows through the line directly into the bloodstream. IV lines must be
properly checked and cared for to ensure the line is working properly and that there are
no complications. To do caregivers make sure the IV area is clean, dry, visible and that
there is no swelling, temperature change or leakage near the IV site.
✔✔Jaundice - ✔✔Yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by
the deposition of bile pigments.
✔✔Job description - ✔✔An outline of what will be expected in a job.
,✔✔Laxatives - ✔✔Substances that loosen stools and increase bowel movements. They
are used to treat and prevent constipation.
✔✔Life support - ✔✔Any device or system, usually connected directly to a patient, that
can take over for a vital body organ or function that is failing or has failed.
✔✔Lift/draw sheet - ✔✔Sheet used to move a resident
✔✔Linen - ✔✔Bedding, towels, gowns, masks, and other articles that requires
disinfection or disposal
✔✔Living will - ✔✔A document that states the medical care a person wants or does not
want, in case he or she becomes unable to make those decisions,
✔✔Log roll - ✔✔Method for moving a person onto his or her side (by rolling like a log).
✔✔Loose teeth - ✔✔When a tooth loses support and slowly detaches from the gums
and bone. The slightest touch may cause the tooth to move, and eating or chewing can
cause further loosening.
✔✔Male perineal care - ✔✔It means washing the penis and anal area.
✔✔Maslow - ✔✔Psychologist whose theory of hierarchy of human needs helps explain
behavior.
✔✔Masturbation - ✔✔To touch or rub sexual organs in order to give oneself pleasure.
✔✔Material safety data sheets - ✔✔Sheet that provides information on the safe use of
and hazards of chemicals, as well as emergency steps to take in the event chemicals
are splashed, sprayed or ingested.
✔✔Measuring height - ✔✔The maximum distance from the floor to the highest point of
the head.
✔✔Measuring temperature - ✔✔Degree of hotness or coldness measured on a definite
scale.
✔✔Mechanical lift - ✔✔Special equipment used to lift and move or lift and weigh a
person, also called hydraulic lift.
✔✔Medical asepsis - ✔✔Procedures used to reduce the number of microorganisms and
prevent their spread.
, ✔✔Medical record - ✔✔A chronological written account of a patient's examination and
treatment that includes the resident's medical history and complaints, the physician's
physical findings, the results of diagnostic tests and procedures, and medications and
therapeutic procedures.
✔✔Medications - ✔✔Any drug or preparation that is used to treat and cure illness.
✔✔Memory loss - ✔✔Is the forgetting of information and experiences that a person
would normally be able to recall easily. Memory loss (sometimes called amnesia) can
affect short-term memory or long-term memory.
✔✔Mental health - ✔✔Refers to the normal function of emotional and intellectual
abilities.
✔✔Microorganism - ✔✔A living thing or organism that is so small that it can be seen
only under a microscope; also called microbe.
✔✔Military time - ✔✔A method of measuring the time based on the full twenty-four
hours of the day rather than two groups of twelve hours; the twenty-four-hour clock.
✔✔Mobility - ✔✔Ability to move.
✔✔Mouth care - ✔✔The practice of keeping the mouth clean and free of disease and
other problems by regular brushing of the teeth, tongue and cleaning between the teeth.
✔✔Moving - ✔✔Changing place or position
✔✔MSDS - ✔✔Acronym that stands for work related musculoskeletal disorders.
✔✔Multiple Sclerosis - ✔✔A progressive disease in which the protective covering for
the nerves, spinal cord and white matter for the brain breaks down over time; without
this covering , nerves cannot send messages to and from the brain in a normal way.
✔✔Musculoskeletal - ✔✔Concerning, involving, or made up of both the muscles and the
bone.
✔✔Nail care - ✔✔The maintenance of the fingernails and toenails.
✔✔Neglect - ✔✔The failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental or
emotional harm to a person.
✔✔Non-contagious disease - ✔✔A disease not capable of being spread from one
person to another.
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Infection prevention - ✔✔The set of methods practiced in healthcare facilities to
prevent and control the spread of disease.
✔✔In-house transfer - ✔✔Move from one room to another.
✔✔Initial observations - ✔✔The measurement that you take before you start any
process that might cause a change.
✔✔In-service programs - ✔✔A professional training or staff development effort, where
professionals are trained and discuss their work with others in their peer group. It is a
key component of continuing health care education.
✔✔Insomnia - ✔✔The inability to fall asleep or remain asleep.
✔✔Intake - ✔✔The fluid a person consumes, also called input
✔✔Intake and output - ✔✔Measure of fluid taken in and voided.
✔✔Integumentary system - ✔✔Outer covering of skin, also hair and nails.
✔✔Interpersonal skills - ✔✔The set of abilities enabling a person to interact positively
and work effectively with others. Communication skills.
✔✔Isolation - ✔✔To separate something or someone.
✔✔Isolation precautions - ✔✔The voluntary or compulsory separation and confinement
of those known or suspected to be infected with a contagious disease agent (whether ill
or not) to prevent further infections.
✔✔IV care - ✔✔IV lines are used to deliver different types of fluids, medications, and
blood products to patients. The catheter or the "line" is a thin, flexible plastic tube. A
trained health care provider inserts the line into a vein in the hand, arm, foot, leg, or
scalp. Fluid flows through the line directly into the bloodstream. IV lines must be
properly checked and cared for to ensure the line is working properly and that there are
no complications. To do caregivers make sure the IV area is clean, dry, visible and that
there is no swelling, temperature change or leakage near the IV site.
✔✔Jaundice - ✔✔Yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by
the deposition of bile pigments.
✔✔Job description - ✔✔An outline of what will be expected in a job.
,✔✔Laxatives - ✔✔Substances that loosen stools and increase bowel movements. They
are used to treat and prevent constipation.
✔✔Life support - ✔✔Any device or system, usually connected directly to a patient, that
can take over for a vital body organ or function that is failing or has failed.
✔✔Lift/draw sheet - ✔✔Sheet used to move a resident
✔✔Linen - ✔✔Bedding, towels, gowns, masks, and other articles that requires
disinfection or disposal
✔✔Living will - ✔✔A document that states the medical care a person wants or does not
want, in case he or she becomes unable to make those decisions,
✔✔Log roll - ✔✔Method for moving a person onto his or her side (by rolling like a log).
✔✔Loose teeth - ✔✔When a tooth loses support and slowly detaches from the gums
and bone. The slightest touch may cause the tooth to move, and eating or chewing can
cause further loosening.
✔✔Male perineal care - ✔✔It means washing the penis and anal area.
✔✔Maslow - ✔✔Psychologist whose theory of hierarchy of human needs helps explain
behavior.
✔✔Masturbation - ✔✔To touch or rub sexual organs in order to give oneself pleasure.
✔✔Material safety data sheets - ✔✔Sheet that provides information on the safe use of
and hazards of chemicals, as well as emergency steps to take in the event chemicals
are splashed, sprayed or ingested.
✔✔Measuring height - ✔✔The maximum distance from the floor to the highest point of
the head.
✔✔Measuring temperature - ✔✔Degree of hotness or coldness measured on a definite
scale.
✔✔Mechanical lift - ✔✔Special equipment used to lift and move or lift and weigh a
person, also called hydraulic lift.
✔✔Medical asepsis - ✔✔Procedures used to reduce the number of microorganisms and
prevent their spread.
, ✔✔Medical record - ✔✔A chronological written account of a patient's examination and
treatment that includes the resident's medical history and complaints, the physician's
physical findings, the results of diagnostic tests and procedures, and medications and
therapeutic procedures.
✔✔Medications - ✔✔Any drug or preparation that is used to treat and cure illness.
✔✔Memory loss - ✔✔Is the forgetting of information and experiences that a person
would normally be able to recall easily. Memory loss (sometimes called amnesia) can
affect short-term memory or long-term memory.
✔✔Mental health - ✔✔Refers to the normal function of emotional and intellectual
abilities.
✔✔Microorganism - ✔✔A living thing or organism that is so small that it can be seen
only under a microscope; also called microbe.
✔✔Military time - ✔✔A method of measuring the time based on the full twenty-four
hours of the day rather than two groups of twelve hours; the twenty-four-hour clock.
✔✔Mobility - ✔✔Ability to move.
✔✔Mouth care - ✔✔The practice of keeping the mouth clean and free of disease and
other problems by regular brushing of the teeth, tongue and cleaning between the teeth.
✔✔Moving - ✔✔Changing place or position
✔✔MSDS - ✔✔Acronym that stands for work related musculoskeletal disorders.
✔✔Multiple Sclerosis - ✔✔A progressive disease in which the protective covering for
the nerves, spinal cord and white matter for the brain breaks down over time; without
this covering , nerves cannot send messages to and from the brain in a normal way.
✔✔Musculoskeletal - ✔✔Concerning, involving, or made up of both the muscles and the
bone.
✔✔Nail care - ✔✔The maintenance of the fingernails and toenails.
✔✔Neglect - ✔✔The failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental or
emotional harm to a person.
✔✔Non-contagious disease - ✔✔A disease not capable of being spread from one
person to another.
