GNA STUDY EXAM GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔Advance directives - ✔✔Legal documents that allow people to decide what kind of
medical care they wish to have if they are unable to make decisions themselves
✔✔Hospice care - ✔✔Is the term for the special care that a dying person needs
✔✔Homeostasis - ✔✔Is the name for the condition where all of the body's systems are
working at their best
✔✔Anterior or ventral - ✔✔The front of the body or body part
✔✔Posterior or dorsal - ✔✔Back of body or body part
✔✔Medial - ✔✔toward the midline of the body
✔✔Skin - ✔✔It is a sense organ . Feels hear and cold and pain and touch and pressure
✔✔Musculoskeletal system - ✔✔Skeleton . The framework of the body . Has 206 bones
✔✔Muscles - ✔✔Provide movement of body parts to maintain posture and to produce
heat
✔✔Atrophy - ✔✔The muscle wastes away and becomes weak
✔✔Osteoporosis - ✔✔Where bones become weak and brittle and can break easily
✔✔Partial weight bearing - ✔✔Resident is able to support some body weight on one or
both legs
✔✔Anti-embolic stocking - ✔✔Another type of special stocking. It helps Aid circulation
✔✔Nervous system - ✔✔Senses and interprets information from outside of the body .
✔✔Hypertension - ✔✔High blood pressure
✔✔Inspiration - ✔✔Breathing in
✔✔Expiration - ✔✔Breathing out
✔✔Ostomy - ✔✔Surgical creation of an opening from a area inside the body to the
outside
GRADED A+
✔✔Advance directives - ✔✔Legal documents that allow people to decide what kind of
medical care they wish to have if they are unable to make decisions themselves
✔✔Hospice care - ✔✔Is the term for the special care that a dying person needs
✔✔Homeostasis - ✔✔Is the name for the condition where all of the body's systems are
working at their best
✔✔Anterior or ventral - ✔✔The front of the body or body part
✔✔Posterior or dorsal - ✔✔Back of body or body part
✔✔Medial - ✔✔toward the midline of the body
✔✔Skin - ✔✔It is a sense organ . Feels hear and cold and pain and touch and pressure
✔✔Musculoskeletal system - ✔✔Skeleton . The framework of the body . Has 206 bones
✔✔Muscles - ✔✔Provide movement of body parts to maintain posture and to produce
heat
✔✔Atrophy - ✔✔The muscle wastes away and becomes weak
✔✔Osteoporosis - ✔✔Where bones become weak and brittle and can break easily
✔✔Partial weight bearing - ✔✔Resident is able to support some body weight on one or
both legs
✔✔Anti-embolic stocking - ✔✔Another type of special stocking. It helps Aid circulation
✔✔Nervous system - ✔✔Senses and interprets information from outside of the body .
✔✔Hypertension - ✔✔High blood pressure
✔✔Inspiration - ✔✔Breathing in
✔✔Expiration - ✔✔Breathing out
✔✔Ostomy - ✔✔Surgical creation of an opening from a area inside the body to the
outside
