Exam Questions and CORRECT
ANSWERS
abdominal thrust - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Heimlich maneuver
Abduction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- moving away from the body
Acute care - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Illnesses that can be recovered from
Adducttion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Bringing towards the body
advance directives - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a written statement of a person's wishes
regarding medical treatment
Afebrile - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- without fever
Agitation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a state of anxiety or nervous excitement
AIDS - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- acquired immune deficiency syndrome or HIV
Ambulation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- walking
angia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- chest pain
Anterior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- front of the body
aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- impairment of language
, Apical - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- apex of the heart
Asepsis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- absence of pathogenic microorganisms
atrophy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Wasting or thinning of the muscle
axillary temperature - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Temperature taken at the armpit
Normal axillary temperature - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 97.3°-98.1°
Basic needs - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Maslow's 1971 Hierarchy
Bed cradle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a metal or plastic frame suspended over the hospital
bed to keep the weight of the linen off the resident's body
bowel program - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- program that manipulates factors within a
person's control (timing of defecation, exercise, diet) to produce a regular pattern of
comfortable defecation without medication or enemas
cardivascular system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- heart and blood vessels
care impaired - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- doing most if not all of the ADLs for an impaired
resident
Cataracts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- clouding of the lens of the eye
central nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- brain and spinal cord
cerebral vascular accident - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- stroke