PROMETRIC CNA ALL TEST PAPERS 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔A charge nurse asks a nurse aide to perform a task that is not part of the nurse
aide's scope of practice. What should the nurse aide do?
A. Consider if the task can be performed another way
B. Provide the care and perform the task as best as possible
C. Contact the ombudsman's office since resident's rights may be violated
D. Refuse to perform the task and explain it is not within the nurse aide's role - ✔✔D.
Refuse to perform the task and explain it is not within the nurse aide's role
✔✔The nurse aide receives resident assignments from the charge nurse at the
beginning of the shift. When planning priorities it will be most important for the nurse
aide to
A. Decide break times with other nurse aides
B. Review assignments with others to check if residents are divided evenly
C. Check all assigned residents to see if anyone has immediate needs
D. Check what the activity department has scheduled for residents during the shift -
✔✔C. Check all assigned residents to see if anyone has immediate needs
✔✔A nurse aide hears another staff member yelling and cursing at a resident. This is an
example of
A. Resident neglect
B. Resident abuse
C. Nurse aide carelessness
D. Nurse aide non-compliance - ✔✔B. Resident abuse
✔✔Failure to give proper care resulting in physical or emotional harm to the resident is
______________. Ex: Upon arriving for your shift, you find a resident lying in a soiled
bed with fecal matter dried on his skin:
A. Slander
B. Battery
C. Code of ethics
D. Negligence - ✔✔D. Negligence
✔✔While caring for Mrs. Jones the nursing assistant discovers that she became less
combative when provided with a washcloth. The best way to communicate this with
other staff is to:
A. Report your findings to the nurse before you leave
B. Keep the information to yourself
,C. Remember to report it at next week's care conference
D. Post a note in the shower room - ✔✔A. Report your findings to the nurse before you
leave
✔✔The nursing assistant sees a medical abbreviation she is unfamiliar with on the work
assignment. What should she do?
A. Check with co-workers to see what it may mean
B. Check with the charge nurse to see what it means
C. Ask the housekeeper what she thinks
D. Ask the resident leading questions to figure it out - ✔✔B. Check with the charge
nurse to see what it means
✔✔If the patient speaks a different dialect or language, how does the nurse aide
respond?
A. Do sign language or use visual aids like photographs
B. Get an interpreter
C. Try to learn the language
D. Nod often to give the message that he or she is understood - ✔✔B. Get an
interpreter
✔✔An open-ended question requires ___________ answer. An open-ended question
encourages a person to talk.
A. A simple "yes" or "no"
B. A negative
C. More than a simple "yes" or "no"
D. A written - ✔✔C. More than a simple "yes" or "no"
✔✔When speaking with residents and their families, a nursing assistant should
A. Use medical terms so that they will understand more easily
B. Use simple, non-medical terms
C. Use a different language
D. Talk over their heads to other staff members - ✔✔B. Use simple, non-medical terms
✔✔A client gives the nurse aide a twenty dollar bill as a thank you for all that the nurse
aide has done. The nurse aide SHOULD:
A. Take the money so as not to offend the client
B. Politely refuse the money
C. Take the money and buy something for the unit
D. Ask the nurse in charge what to do - ✔✔B. Politely refuse the money
,✔✔The nurse aide notices that a client's mail has been delivered to the client's room.
The nurse aide SHOULD:
A. Open the mail and leave it on the client's table
B. Open the mail and read it to the client
C. Read the mail to make sure it doesn't contain upsetting news
D. Give the client the unopened mail and offer help as needed - ✔✔D. Give the client
the unopened mail and offer help as needed
✔✔If a client is sitting in a chair in his room masturbating, the nurse aide SHOULD:
A. Report the incident to the other nurse aides
B. Tell the client to stop
C. Laugh and tell the client to go in the bathroom
D. Leave the client alone and provide privacy - ✔✔D. Leave the client alone and provide
privacy
✔✔The nurse aide is in the employee dining room. A group of nurse aides are eating
lunch together and begin discussing how rude a certain client was acting. The nurse
aide SHOULD:
A. Join in the conversation
B. Suggest that this is not the place to discuss the client
C. Be quiet and not say anything to the other nurse aides
D. Return to the unit and tell the client what was said - ✔✔B. Suggest that this is not the
place to discuss the client
✔✔A person in your care says he doesn't understand the medical procedure he is
supposed to have tomorrow. You should:
A. Tell him not to worry about it.
B. Tell him it will be painless.
C. Tell your supervising nurse about his concerns.
D. Tell your supervising nurse that he is afraid of the procedure. - ✔✔C. Tell your
supervising nurse about his concerns.
✔✔Physiological needs are:
A. Beds, tables, and chairs.
B. Independence, dignity, and self-esteem.
C. Oxygen, food, water, elimination, and rest.
D. Blankets, ice cream, and television. - ✔✔C. Oxygen, food, water, elimination, and
rest.
✔✔Which of the following basic needs is most essential?
, A. Self actualization
B. Self esteem
C. Love and belonging
D. Safety and security - ✔✔D. Safety and security
✔✔Which statement is true about the effects of aging?
A. The aging process can be reversed with good health care
B. Bladder incontinence is normal part of aging
C. Joints tend to be less flexible as a person ages
D. Sensitivity to pain increases with age - ✔✔C. Joints tend to be less flexible as a
person ages
✔✔Besides hearing, the ear is involved with
A. Regulating body movements
B. Balance
C. Smoothness of body movements
D. Controlling involuntary movements - ✔✔B. Balance
✔✔The heart is an important muscle for which body system?
A. Urinary
B. Musculoskeletal
C. Circulatory
D. Digestive - ✔✔C. Circulatory
✔✔__________________ carries _________________ blood away from the heart
through the ____________________.
A. Veins; deoxygenated blood; right ventricle
B. Veins; oxygenated blood; left atrium
C. Arteries; deoxygenated blood; left ventricle
D. Arteries; oxygenated blood; left ventricle - ✔✔D. Arteries; oxygenated blood; left
ventricle
✔✔Most food absorption takes place in the
A. Stomach
B. Small intestines
C. Colon
D. Liver - ✔✔B. Small intestines
✔✔The endocrine glands secrete substances called
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔A charge nurse asks a nurse aide to perform a task that is not part of the nurse
aide's scope of practice. What should the nurse aide do?
A. Consider if the task can be performed another way
B. Provide the care and perform the task as best as possible
C. Contact the ombudsman's office since resident's rights may be violated
D. Refuse to perform the task and explain it is not within the nurse aide's role - ✔✔D.
Refuse to perform the task and explain it is not within the nurse aide's role
✔✔The nurse aide receives resident assignments from the charge nurse at the
beginning of the shift. When planning priorities it will be most important for the nurse
aide to
A. Decide break times with other nurse aides
B. Review assignments with others to check if residents are divided evenly
C. Check all assigned residents to see if anyone has immediate needs
D. Check what the activity department has scheduled for residents during the shift -
✔✔C. Check all assigned residents to see if anyone has immediate needs
✔✔A nurse aide hears another staff member yelling and cursing at a resident. This is an
example of
A. Resident neglect
B. Resident abuse
C. Nurse aide carelessness
D. Nurse aide non-compliance - ✔✔B. Resident abuse
✔✔Failure to give proper care resulting in physical or emotional harm to the resident is
______________. Ex: Upon arriving for your shift, you find a resident lying in a soiled
bed with fecal matter dried on his skin:
A. Slander
B. Battery
C. Code of ethics
D. Negligence - ✔✔D. Negligence
✔✔While caring for Mrs. Jones the nursing assistant discovers that she became less
combative when provided with a washcloth. The best way to communicate this with
other staff is to:
A. Report your findings to the nurse before you leave
B. Keep the information to yourself
,C. Remember to report it at next week's care conference
D. Post a note in the shower room - ✔✔A. Report your findings to the nurse before you
leave
✔✔The nursing assistant sees a medical abbreviation she is unfamiliar with on the work
assignment. What should she do?
A. Check with co-workers to see what it may mean
B. Check with the charge nurse to see what it means
C. Ask the housekeeper what she thinks
D. Ask the resident leading questions to figure it out - ✔✔B. Check with the charge
nurse to see what it means
✔✔If the patient speaks a different dialect or language, how does the nurse aide
respond?
A. Do sign language or use visual aids like photographs
B. Get an interpreter
C. Try to learn the language
D. Nod often to give the message that he or she is understood - ✔✔B. Get an
interpreter
✔✔An open-ended question requires ___________ answer. An open-ended question
encourages a person to talk.
A. A simple "yes" or "no"
B. A negative
C. More than a simple "yes" or "no"
D. A written - ✔✔C. More than a simple "yes" or "no"
✔✔When speaking with residents and their families, a nursing assistant should
A. Use medical terms so that they will understand more easily
B. Use simple, non-medical terms
C. Use a different language
D. Talk over their heads to other staff members - ✔✔B. Use simple, non-medical terms
✔✔A client gives the nurse aide a twenty dollar bill as a thank you for all that the nurse
aide has done. The nurse aide SHOULD:
A. Take the money so as not to offend the client
B. Politely refuse the money
C. Take the money and buy something for the unit
D. Ask the nurse in charge what to do - ✔✔B. Politely refuse the money
,✔✔The nurse aide notices that a client's mail has been delivered to the client's room.
The nurse aide SHOULD:
A. Open the mail and leave it on the client's table
B. Open the mail and read it to the client
C. Read the mail to make sure it doesn't contain upsetting news
D. Give the client the unopened mail and offer help as needed - ✔✔D. Give the client
the unopened mail and offer help as needed
✔✔If a client is sitting in a chair in his room masturbating, the nurse aide SHOULD:
A. Report the incident to the other nurse aides
B. Tell the client to stop
C. Laugh and tell the client to go in the bathroom
D. Leave the client alone and provide privacy - ✔✔D. Leave the client alone and provide
privacy
✔✔The nurse aide is in the employee dining room. A group of nurse aides are eating
lunch together and begin discussing how rude a certain client was acting. The nurse
aide SHOULD:
A. Join in the conversation
B. Suggest that this is not the place to discuss the client
C. Be quiet and not say anything to the other nurse aides
D. Return to the unit and tell the client what was said - ✔✔B. Suggest that this is not the
place to discuss the client
✔✔A person in your care says he doesn't understand the medical procedure he is
supposed to have tomorrow. You should:
A. Tell him not to worry about it.
B. Tell him it will be painless.
C. Tell your supervising nurse about his concerns.
D. Tell your supervising nurse that he is afraid of the procedure. - ✔✔C. Tell your
supervising nurse about his concerns.
✔✔Physiological needs are:
A. Beds, tables, and chairs.
B. Independence, dignity, and self-esteem.
C. Oxygen, food, water, elimination, and rest.
D. Blankets, ice cream, and television. - ✔✔C. Oxygen, food, water, elimination, and
rest.
✔✔Which of the following basic needs is most essential?
, A. Self actualization
B. Self esteem
C. Love and belonging
D. Safety and security - ✔✔D. Safety and security
✔✔Which statement is true about the effects of aging?
A. The aging process can be reversed with good health care
B. Bladder incontinence is normal part of aging
C. Joints tend to be less flexible as a person ages
D. Sensitivity to pain increases with age - ✔✔C. Joints tend to be less flexible as a
person ages
✔✔Besides hearing, the ear is involved with
A. Regulating body movements
B. Balance
C. Smoothness of body movements
D. Controlling involuntary movements - ✔✔B. Balance
✔✔The heart is an important muscle for which body system?
A. Urinary
B. Musculoskeletal
C. Circulatory
D. Digestive - ✔✔C. Circulatory
✔✔__________________ carries _________________ blood away from the heart
through the ____________________.
A. Veins; deoxygenated blood; right ventricle
B. Veins; oxygenated blood; left atrium
C. Arteries; deoxygenated blood; left ventricle
D. Arteries; oxygenated blood; left ventricle - ✔✔D. Arteries; oxygenated blood; left
ventricle
✔✔Most food absorption takes place in the
A. Stomach
B. Small intestines
C. Colon
D. Liver - ✔✔B. Small intestines
✔✔The endocrine glands secrete substances called
