OHIO STNA EVALUATION EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Bladder training - ✔✔"Getting the bladder on a schedule" this helps with urinary
incontinence (urinating on self) [recommended to assist every two hours]
✔✔Blindness - ✔✔Loss of vision
✔✔Blood pressure - ✔✔BP or b/p. Pressure in your arteries when your when your heart
beats
✔✔Body fluid - ✔✔Liquids within the human body. About 60-70% of the human body is
made up of water.
✔✔Body mechanics - ✔✔How you hold your body when you move (lifting, turning)
✔✔Body temperature - ✔✔How hot/cold a person is internally. Textbook perfect is
98.6%, typically 97-99 is considered normal, anything outside this range should be
reported.
✔✔bowel program - ✔✔Getting bowels on a schedule. This helps incontinence (having
a bowel movement on self). It's recommend to try to go at the same time everyday. If no
bm movement in 3 days medications needed.
✔✔benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) - ✔✔Age related enlargement of the prostate.
(Only males have a prostate)
✔✔Bradycardia - ✔✔Heart rate under 60. (Normal is 60-100)
✔✔Breathing - ✔✔Inspiration/expiration of breath. A respiration rate or breathing rate
will show how many breaths a person takes over a minute.
✔✔Breathing rates - ✔✔Normal is 12-20. Report anything below 12 or above 20 to a
nurse. Observe the chest rise and fall for one breath
✔✔Burns - ✔✔Damaged skin or deeper tissue caused by exposure to something hot
(ex: sun, fire, chemicals etc)
✔✔Call signal - ✔✔Device used to alert staff that a resident needs something. Aka call
light or signaling light. Every resident MUST have one
✔✔Cancer - ✔✔Abnormal cell growth with potential to invade or spread to other parts of
the body. Signs may include: being tired, unexplained weight loss, change in
appetite/swallowing, nausea, vomiting, change in bowel habits etc$
, ✔✔cardiac arrest - ✔✔When the heart stops beating suddenly.
✔✔Cardiovascular system - ✔✔The blood and circulatory system. Made up by the
heart, blood vessels, and blood
✔✔care impaired - ✔✔The caregiver cannot provide appropriate care due to his/her
own physical, emotional, mental issues
✔✔Care plan - ✔✔Roadmap to taking care of the patient. Will describe issues they
have, goals to meet, and how to meet them (interventions). Care plans are developed
by the interdisciplinary team (doctor, nursing admin, charge nurse, nurse aide, resident,
sometimes family) A care plan must be realistic, and resident must agree.
✔✔Care planning - ✔✔The process of designing and documenting a care plan.
✔✔Cares - ✔✔Feeling concerned or compassionate about. Could also means
procedures preformed to assist a resident
✔✔Cataract - ✔✔Clouding of the eye's lens
✔✔Catheter - ✔✔Thin tube inserted into the body. Normally focused on urinary
indwelling catheters aka Foley catheter
✔✔Catheter care - ✔✔Providing care to a catheter and it's entry site. (Ohio skills test
too)
✔✔CC's in an Ounce - ✔✔30 CC/ML = 1 ounce. 1 CC = 1ML
✔✔Cell phones - ✔✔A mobile phone
✔✔Central nervous system - ✔✔Aka CNS. Consists of brain and spinal cord.
Everything that happens in our body is related to communication within the CNS. Brain
is like the "motherboard" of the body.
✔✔Cerebral vascular accident (CVA) - ✔✔Aka stroke. Two types- occlusive (blood flow
stopped) or hemorrhage (bleeding) stroke
✔✔Chain of command - ✔✔Line of authority (ex: a Stna reports to the charge nurse,
who reports to the supervisor etc)
✔✔Chain of infection - ✔✔The six "links" that must be intact to develop and invasion of
pathogens or infection
WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Bladder training - ✔✔"Getting the bladder on a schedule" this helps with urinary
incontinence (urinating on self) [recommended to assist every two hours]
✔✔Blindness - ✔✔Loss of vision
✔✔Blood pressure - ✔✔BP or b/p. Pressure in your arteries when your when your heart
beats
✔✔Body fluid - ✔✔Liquids within the human body. About 60-70% of the human body is
made up of water.
✔✔Body mechanics - ✔✔How you hold your body when you move (lifting, turning)
✔✔Body temperature - ✔✔How hot/cold a person is internally. Textbook perfect is
98.6%, typically 97-99 is considered normal, anything outside this range should be
reported.
✔✔bowel program - ✔✔Getting bowels on a schedule. This helps incontinence (having
a bowel movement on self). It's recommend to try to go at the same time everyday. If no
bm movement in 3 days medications needed.
✔✔benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) - ✔✔Age related enlargement of the prostate.
(Only males have a prostate)
✔✔Bradycardia - ✔✔Heart rate under 60. (Normal is 60-100)
✔✔Breathing - ✔✔Inspiration/expiration of breath. A respiration rate or breathing rate
will show how many breaths a person takes over a minute.
✔✔Breathing rates - ✔✔Normal is 12-20. Report anything below 12 or above 20 to a
nurse. Observe the chest rise and fall for one breath
✔✔Burns - ✔✔Damaged skin or deeper tissue caused by exposure to something hot
(ex: sun, fire, chemicals etc)
✔✔Call signal - ✔✔Device used to alert staff that a resident needs something. Aka call
light or signaling light. Every resident MUST have one
✔✔Cancer - ✔✔Abnormal cell growth with potential to invade or spread to other parts of
the body. Signs may include: being tired, unexplained weight loss, change in
appetite/swallowing, nausea, vomiting, change in bowel habits etc$
, ✔✔cardiac arrest - ✔✔When the heart stops beating suddenly.
✔✔Cardiovascular system - ✔✔The blood and circulatory system. Made up by the
heart, blood vessels, and blood
✔✔care impaired - ✔✔The caregiver cannot provide appropriate care due to his/her
own physical, emotional, mental issues
✔✔Care plan - ✔✔Roadmap to taking care of the patient. Will describe issues they
have, goals to meet, and how to meet them (interventions). Care plans are developed
by the interdisciplinary team (doctor, nursing admin, charge nurse, nurse aide, resident,
sometimes family) A care plan must be realistic, and resident must agree.
✔✔Care planning - ✔✔The process of designing and documenting a care plan.
✔✔Cares - ✔✔Feeling concerned or compassionate about. Could also means
procedures preformed to assist a resident
✔✔Cataract - ✔✔Clouding of the eye's lens
✔✔Catheter - ✔✔Thin tube inserted into the body. Normally focused on urinary
indwelling catheters aka Foley catheter
✔✔Catheter care - ✔✔Providing care to a catheter and it's entry site. (Ohio skills test
too)
✔✔CC's in an Ounce - ✔✔30 CC/ML = 1 ounce. 1 CC = 1ML
✔✔Cell phones - ✔✔A mobile phone
✔✔Central nervous system - ✔✔Aka CNS. Consists of brain and spinal cord.
Everything that happens in our body is related to communication within the CNS. Brain
is like the "motherboard" of the body.
✔✔Cerebral vascular accident (CVA) - ✔✔Aka stroke. Two types- occlusive (blood flow
stopped) or hemorrhage (bleeding) stroke
✔✔Chain of command - ✔✔Line of authority (ex: a Stna reports to the charge nurse,
who reports to the supervisor etc)
✔✔Chain of infection - ✔✔The six "links" that must be intact to develop and invasion of
pathogens or infection
