CNA Chapter 3 Exam Questions and Answers 2025–2026 – Verified Answers: Holistic Care, Human Development, Mental Health & End-of-Life Care

This CNA Chapter 3 exam question bank provides verified answers covering holistic care, human needs, human development across the lifespan, mental health disorders, and end-of-life care for nursing assistant certification preparation. Content includes the definition of holistic care focusing on physical, mental, and social well-being, physical versus psychosocial needs including water, food, activity, acceptance, and self-esteem, promoting resident independence, activities of daily living, respecting religious beliefs and sexual privacy, the health benefits of regular activity, family roles in the care team, myths versus realities of normal aging including thinner drier skin, developmental disabilities that restrict physical and mental ability, phobias including claustrophobia, clinical depression signs and symptoms including apathy, cognitive development in school-age children, appropriate nursing assistant care for residents with mental health disorders, recognizing and reporting abuse, caring for dying residents with diminished senses through observing body language, emotional support through listening, respecting the rights of dying residents, the Dying Person's Bill of Rights including honest answers to questions, infant physical development from head down, hospice as special care focused on dignity and comfort, postmortem care responsibilities including placing drainage pads, child development stages including preschool years for language and cooperative play, advance directives that must be honored, palliative care for pain relief and comfort, hearing as the last sense to leave the body, signs of approaching death including decreasing blood pressure, and attitudes helpful in hospice work including sensitivity to individual needs.