MINNESOTA CNA EVALUATION EXAM 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Angina - ✔✔Chest pain, pressure or discomfort
✔✔Antibiotics: - ✔✔A medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the
growth of or destroys microorganisms.
✔✔Anti-embolic stockings - ✔✔TED hose. Special stockings used to help prevent
swelling and blood clots and aid circulation; also called elastic stockings.
✔✔Aphasia - ✔✔Difficulty using or understanding words
✔✔Apical pulse - ✔✔The pulse on the left side of the chest, just below the nipple.
✔✔Apnea - ✔✔The absence of breathing
✔✔Arthritis - ✔✔A general term that refers to inflammation of the joints.
✔✔Aspiration - ✔✔The inhalation of food, fluid, or foreign material into the lung
✔✔Assistive device - ✔✔Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to
perform ADLS.
✔✔Authorized duty - ✔✔Means approval has been granted by the employer to perform
a specific type of duty or duties.
✔✔Axillary temperature - ✔✔The body temperature as recorded by a thermometer
placed in the armpit.
✔✔Bacteria - ✔✔Disease causing germs
✔✔Basic needs - ✔✔Physical, emotional mental, and social requirements
✔✔Bathing - ✔✔A washing or immersion of something, especially the body, in water for
cleansing purposes or medical treatment.
✔✔Bed cradle - ✔✔Bed cradles are devices that attach to your bed. They keep sheets
and blankets from touching and rubbing sensitive skin, injured parts or your legs or feet.
✔✔Behavior - ✔✔The way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially toward
others.
,✔✔Behavioral care plan - ✔✔A plan that assists a member in building positive
behaviors to replace or reduce a challenging/dangerous behavior. This plan may
include teaching, improved communication, increasing relationships, and using clinical
interventions, etc.
✔✔Beliefs - ✔✔Individual viewpoints, feelings, and opinions.
✔✔Biohazard - ✔✔A biological agent or condition that is a hazard to humans or the
environment.
✔✔Bladder training - ✔✔A behavior therapy that can be effective in treating urinary
incontinence. The goals are to increase the amount of time between emptying the
bladder and the amount of fluids the bladder can hold. It also can diminish leakage and
the sense of urgency associated with the problem.
✔✔Bleeding - ✔✔Losing blood.
✔✔Blindness - ✔✔Sightless.
✔✔Body alignment - ✔✔Body alignment refers to how the head, shoulders, spine, hips,
knees and ankles relate and line up with each other. Proper alignment of the body puts
less stress on the spine and helps you have good posture.
✔✔Body language - ✔✔All conscious or unconscious messages your body sends as
you communicate, such as facial expressions, shrugging, your shoulders and wringing
your hands.
✔✔Body mechanics - ✔✔The way the parts of the body work together when a person
moves.
✔✔Body temperature - ✔✔The normal temperature of the human body A person's
normal body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celsius.
✔✔Bone loss - ✔✔A disease that causes bones to become brittle and more likely to
fracture (break). With osteoporosis, the bones lose density. Bone density is the amount
of bone tissue that is in your bones.
✔✔Bowel program - ✔✔A program that helps people who have chronic constipation or
a frequent loss of bowel control. The program involves trying to go to the bathroom at
the same time every day in an attempt to help train the body to have regular bowel
movements.
✔✔Brain stem - ✔✔The part of the brain composed of the midbrain, pons, and medulla
oblongata and connecting the spinal cord with the forebrain and cerebrum.
, ✔✔Breathing - ✔✔The process of taking air into and expelling it from the lungs.
✔✔Brittle bones - ✔✔A genetic disorder that causes your bones to break very easily,
usually without any type of injury, as from a fall.
✔✔Burns - ✔✔Tissue damage that results from heat, overexposure to the sun or other
radiation, or chemical or electrical contact. Burns can be minor medical problems or life-
threatening emergencies.
✔✔Call light - ✔✔A device used by a resident to signal his or her need for assistance
from professional staff.
✔✔Cancer - ✔✔A general term used to describe a disease in which abnormal cells
grow in an uncontrolled way.
✔✔Cardiac arrest - ✔✔Heart attack.
✔✔Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - ✔✔Medical procedures used when a person's heart
or lungs have stopped working.
✔✔Cardiovascular system - ✔✔Organ system that conveys blood through vessels to
and from all parts of the body, carrying nutrients and oxygen to tissues and removing
carbon dioxide and other waste
✔✔Care plan - ✔✔A plan developed for each resident to achieve certain goals, it
outlines the steps and tasks that the care team must perform
✔✔Cataract - ✔✔A condition in which the lens of the eye becomes cloudy, causing
vision loss.
✔✔Catheter - ✔✔Tube inserted through the skin or into a body opening that is used to
add or drain fluid.
✔✔Catheter care - ✔✔The process of ensuring the catheter is working properly and
ensuring the tube and the area where catheter attaches to body has been properly
cleaned so the resident does not get an infection or skin irritation.
✔✔Central nervous system - ✔✔Part of the nervous system made up of the brain and
spinal cord.
✔✔Charge nurse - ✔✔A nurse responsible for a team of healthcare workers.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Angina - ✔✔Chest pain, pressure or discomfort
✔✔Antibiotics: - ✔✔A medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the
growth of or destroys microorganisms.
✔✔Anti-embolic stockings - ✔✔TED hose. Special stockings used to help prevent
swelling and blood clots and aid circulation; also called elastic stockings.
✔✔Aphasia - ✔✔Difficulty using or understanding words
✔✔Apical pulse - ✔✔The pulse on the left side of the chest, just below the nipple.
✔✔Apnea - ✔✔The absence of breathing
✔✔Arthritis - ✔✔A general term that refers to inflammation of the joints.
✔✔Aspiration - ✔✔The inhalation of food, fluid, or foreign material into the lung
✔✔Assistive device - ✔✔Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to
perform ADLS.
✔✔Authorized duty - ✔✔Means approval has been granted by the employer to perform
a specific type of duty or duties.
✔✔Axillary temperature - ✔✔The body temperature as recorded by a thermometer
placed in the armpit.
✔✔Bacteria - ✔✔Disease causing germs
✔✔Basic needs - ✔✔Physical, emotional mental, and social requirements
✔✔Bathing - ✔✔A washing or immersion of something, especially the body, in water for
cleansing purposes or medical treatment.
✔✔Bed cradle - ✔✔Bed cradles are devices that attach to your bed. They keep sheets
and blankets from touching and rubbing sensitive skin, injured parts or your legs or feet.
✔✔Behavior - ✔✔The way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially toward
others.
,✔✔Behavioral care plan - ✔✔A plan that assists a member in building positive
behaviors to replace or reduce a challenging/dangerous behavior. This plan may
include teaching, improved communication, increasing relationships, and using clinical
interventions, etc.
✔✔Beliefs - ✔✔Individual viewpoints, feelings, and opinions.
✔✔Biohazard - ✔✔A biological agent or condition that is a hazard to humans or the
environment.
✔✔Bladder training - ✔✔A behavior therapy that can be effective in treating urinary
incontinence. The goals are to increase the amount of time between emptying the
bladder and the amount of fluids the bladder can hold. It also can diminish leakage and
the sense of urgency associated with the problem.
✔✔Bleeding - ✔✔Losing blood.
✔✔Blindness - ✔✔Sightless.
✔✔Body alignment - ✔✔Body alignment refers to how the head, shoulders, spine, hips,
knees and ankles relate and line up with each other. Proper alignment of the body puts
less stress on the spine and helps you have good posture.
✔✔Body language - ✔✔All conscious or unconscious messages your body sends as
you communicate, such as facial expressions, shrugging, your shoulders and wringing
your hands.
✔✔Body mechanics - ✔✔The way the parts of the body work together when a person
moves.
✔✔Body temperature - ✔✔The normal temperature of the human body A person's
normal body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celsius.
✔✔Bone loss - ✔✔A disease that causes bones to become brittle and more likely to
fracture (break). With osteoporosis, the bones lose density. Bone density is the amount
of bone tissue that is in your bones.
✔✔Bowel program - ✔✔A program that helps people who have chronic constipation or
a frequent loss of bowel control. The program involves trying to go to the bathroom at
the same time every day in an attempt to help train the body to have regular bowel
movements.
✔✔Brain stem - ✔✔The part of the brain composed of the midbrain, pons, and medulla
oblongata and connecting the spinal cord with the forebrain and cerebrum.
, ✔✔Breathing - ✔✔The process of taking air into and expelling it from the lungs.
✔✔Brittle bones - ✔✔A genetic disorder that causes your bones to break very easily,
usually without any type of injury, as from a fall.
✔✔Burns - ✔✔Tissue damage that results from heat, overexposure to the sun or other
radiation, or chemical or electrical contact. Burns can be minor medical problems or life-
threatening emergencies.
✔✔Call light - ✔✔A device used by a resident to signal his or her need for assistance
from professional staff.
✔✔Cancer - ✔✔A general term used to describe a disease in which abnormal cells
grow in an uncontrolled way.
✔✔Cardiac arrest - ✔✔Heart attack.
✔✔Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - ✔✔Medical procedures used when a person's heart
or lungs have stopped working.
✔✔Cardiovascular system - ✔✔Organ system that conveys blood through vessels to
and from all parts of the body, carrying nutrients and oxygen to tissues and removing
carbon dioxide and other waste
✔✔Care plan - ✔✔A plan developed for each resident to achieve certain goals, it
outlines the steps and tasks that the care team must perform
✔✔Cataract - ✔✔A condition in which the lens of the eye becomes cloudy, causing
vision loss.
✔✔Catheter - ✔✔Tube inserted through the skin or into a body opening that is used to
add or drain fluid.
✔✔Catheter care - ✔✔The process of ensuring the catheter is working properly and
ensuring the tube and the area where catheter attaches to body has been properly
cleaned so the resident does not get an infection or skin irritation.
✔✔Central nervous system - ✔✔Part of the nervous system made up of the brain and
spinal cord.
✔✔Charge nurse - ✔✔A nurse responsible for a team of healthcare workers.
