HARTMAN'S NURSING ASSISTANT
CARE: THE BASICS 6TH EDITION
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is anxiety? - Answer- Worry, fear, uneasiness about a situation or condition.
What is phobia? - Answer- Intense, irrational fear of or anxiety about a situation,
place or object.
What is delusion? - Answer- Persistent false belief; a person believing someone is
controlling their mind.
What are advanced directives? - Answer- Legal document that allows people to
decide what kind of medical care they want if they are unable to make the decisions
themselves.
What is a living will? - Answer- Outlines the medical care a person wants; takes
affect while a person is alive.
What is durable power of attorney for healthcare? - Answer- Appoints someone to
make healthcare decisions.
What is DNR? - Answer- Do not perform CPR if a person's heart stops beating.
Who defined the five stages of grief? - Answer- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
What is Cheyne-Stokes? - Answer- Type of respiration's usually seen when a person
is dying. Slow, rapid, irregular and apnea periods of breathing.
What are standard precautions? - Answer- Using PPE with every individual you will
have contact with any body fluids or mucus membranes.
What is hearing? - Answer- Usually last sense to leave a person's body.
What is postmortem care? - Answer- Care given to a body after death has occurred.
What is palliative care? - Answer- Focusing on pain relief, comfort and managing
symptoms.
What is the nervous system? - Answer- CNS, PNS; control and message center for
the body.
What is the circulatory system? - Answer- Provides food, oxygen, hormones to cells;
Hypertension, Congestive Heart Failure, ANGINA (chest pain).
, What is the musculoskeletal system? - Answer- Works together to move the body,
gives the body its shape, 206 bones.
What is the gastrointestinal system? - Answer- Starts in the mouth and ends in the
anus; digestion, absorption, elimination.
What is the integumentary system? - Answer- Largest organ, protective covering,
made up of layers; skin.
What is Type 1 Diabetes? - Answer- Insulin dependent diabetes diagnosed in
children and young adults.
What is Type 2 Diabetes? - Answer- Most common form of diabetes that can be
modified with diet, exercise and weight loss.
What is pre-diabetes? - Answer- Elevated glucose levels not high enough for type 2
diabetes diagnosis.
What is gestational diabetes? - Answer- Diabetes that occurs during pregnancy.
What is diabetes? - Answer- Pancreas produces too little insulin or does not properly
use insulin.
What is gait? - Answer- To walk.
What is dysphagia? - Answer- Difficulty swallowing.
What is dyspnea? - Answer- Difficult breathing or shortness of breath.
What is atrophy? - Answer- Muscle waste away, decreasing in size and becoming
weak.
What are anti-embolic stockings? - Answer- Aid in circulation and prevention of blood
clots (thrombus, emboli).
What is posterior? - Answer- Dorsal; back of body or body part.
What is medial? - Answer- Toward the midline of the body.
What is superior? - Answer- Toward the head or above.
What is inferior? - Answer- Away from the head or below.
What is anterior? - Answer- Ventral; front of the body or body part.
What is distal? - Answer- Farther away from the torso; fingers, toes.
What is proximal? - Answer- Closer to the torso.
What is lateral? - Answer- To the side; either side.
CARE: THE BASICS 6TH EDITION
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is anxiety? - Answer- Worry, fear, uneasiness about a situation or condition.
What is phobia? - Answer- Intense, irrational fear of or anxiety about a situation,
place or object.
What is delusion? - Answer- Persistent false belief; a person believing someone is
controlling their mind.
What are advanced directives? - Answer- Legal document that allows people to
decide what kind of medical care they want if they are unable to make the decisions
themselves.
What is a living will? - Answer- Outlines the medical care a person wants; takes
affect while a person is alive.
What is durable power of attorney for healthcare? - Answer- Appoints someone to
make healthcare decisions.
What is DNR? - Answer- Do not perform CPR if a person's heart stops beating.
Who defined the five stages of grief? - Answer- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
What is Cheyne-Stokes? - Answer- Type of respiration's usually seen when a person
is dying. Slow, rapid, irregular and apnea periods of breathing.
What are standard precautions? - Answer- Using PPE with every individual you will
have contact with any body fluids or mucus membranes.
What is hearing? - Answer- Usually last sense to leave a person's body.
What is postmortem care? - Answer- Care given to a body after death has occurred.
What is palliative care? - Answer- Focusing on pain relief, comfort and managing
symptoms.
What is the nervous system? - Answer- CNS, PNS; control and message center for
the body.
What is the circulatory system? - Answer- Provides food, oxygen, hormones to cells;
Hypertension, Congestive Heart Failure, ANGINA (chest pain).
, What is the musculoskeletal system? - Answer- Works together to move the body,
gives the body its shape, 206 bones.
What is the gastrointestinal system? - Answer- Starts in the mouth and ends in the
anus; digestion, absorption, elimination.
What is the integumentary system? - Answer- Largest organ, protective covering,
made up of layers; skin.
What is Type 1 Diabetes? - Answer- Insulin dependent diabetes diagnosed in
children and young adults.
What is Type 2 Diabetes? - Answer- Most common form of diabetes that can be
modified with diet, exercise and weight loss.
What is pre-diabetes? - Answer- Elevated glucose levels not high enough for type 2
diabetes diagnosis.
What is gestational diabetes? - Answer- Diabetes that occurs during pregnancy.
What is diabetes? - Answer- Pancreas produces too little insulin or does not properly
use insulin.
What is gait? - Answer- To walk.
What is dysphagia? - Answer- Difficulty swallowing.
What is dyspnea? - Answer- Difficult breathing or shortness of breath.
What is atrophy? - Answer- Muscle waste away, decreasing in size and becoming
weak.
What are anti-embolic stockings? - Answer- Aid in circulation and prevention of blood
clots (thrombus, emboli).
What is posterior? - Answer- Dorsal; back of body or body part.
What is medial? - Answer- Toward the midline of the body.
What is superior? - Answer- Toward the head or above.
What is inferior? - Answer- Away from the head or below.
What is anterior? - Answer- Ventral; front of the body or body part.
What is distal? - Answer- Farther away from the torso; fingers, toes.
What is proximal? - Answer- Closer to the torso.
What is lateral? - Answer- To the side; either side.
