CNA CREDENTIA FINAL STUDY SHEET
2026 QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Abdominal thrusts.
Answer: A method of attempting to remove an object from the airway of
someone who is choking. Quick, upward pull into the diaphragm.
⩥ Abductor wedge.
Answer: designed to separate the legs of a patient, often used after hip
surgery to keep the hip from popping out.
⩥ Abnormal Vital Signs.
Answer: Vital signs outside the expected normal signs.
⩥ Abuse.
Answer: Purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or
emotional pain or injury to someone.
⩥ Accidents.
Answer: an unfortunate event resulting from carelessness or ignorance.
Can be prevented.
⩥ Accountable.
,Answer: Answerable for one's actions.
⩥ Activities.
Answer: Things that are done for enjoyment, often as part of education
and often in groups. Helps the residents socialize.
⩥ Acute.
Answer: having or experiencing a rapid onset and short recovery time,
usually unexpected.
⩥ Adaptive.
Answer: providing or contributing to or helping something or someone.
⩥ Adaptive Devices.
Answer: Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to
perform activities of daily living (ADL), also called Assistive Devices.
⩥ Adaptive Equipment.
Answer: devices that are used to assist with completing ADL's. Items
such as eating utensils, raised seating, and reachers.
⩥ Adduction.
Answer: Moving a body part toward the midline of the body.
,⩥ Activities of Daily Living (ADL).
Answer: Personal daily care tasks, such as bathing, dressing, caring for
teeth and nails. Eating, drinking, walking, transferring, and elimination.
⩥ Admission.
Answer: the act of allowing to enter; would take vitals, weight, and
height.
⩥ Admitting Resident.
Answer: Beginning process of a patient; admission of a resident into a
long-term care facility.
⩥ Advance Directives.
Answer: Legal documents that allow people to decide what medical care
they wish to have if they are unable to make these decisions themselves.
⩥ Affected Side.
Answer: A weakened side of the body due to a stroke or injury; also
called involved side.
⩥ Aging Process.
Answer: the biological changes that take place overtime and affect the
structure and functioning of the body; Pertains to getting older.
, ⩥ Agitation.
Answer: The state of being restless or troubled. Extreme emotional
disturbance.
⩥ AIDS.
Answer: a serious disease of the immune system transmitted through
blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles.
⩥ Alzheimer's.
Answer: A progressive incurable disease that causes tangled nerve fibers
and protein deposits to form in the brain, which eventually cause
dementia.
⩥ Ambulation.
Answer: Walking.
⩥ Amputees.
Answer: an individual who has had a limb removed.
⩥ Anemia.
Answer: condition in which you lack enough healthy red blood cells to
carry adequate oxygen to your body's tissues.
2026 QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Abdominal thrusts.
Answer: A method of attempting to remove an object from the airway of
someone who is choking. Quick, upward pull into the diaphragm.
⩥ Abductor wedge.
Answer: designed to separate the legs of a patient, often used after hip
surgery to keep the hip from popping out.
⩥ Abnormal Vital Signs.
Answer: Vital signs outside the expected normal signs.
⩥ Abuse.
Answer: Purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or
emotional pain or injury to someone.
⩥ Accidents.
Answer: an unfortunate event resulting from carelessness or ignorance.
Can be prevented.
⩥ Accountable.
,Answer: Answerable for one's actions.
⩥ Activities.
Answer: Things that are done for enjoyment, often as part of education
and often in groups. Helps the residents socialize.
⩥ Acute.
Answer: having or experiencing a rapid onset and short recovery time,
usually unexpected.
⩥ Adaptive.
Answer: providing or contributing to or helping something or someone.
⩥ Adaptive Devices.
Answer: Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to
perform activities of daily living (ADL), also called Assistive Devices.
⩥ Adaptive Equipment.
Answer: devices that are used to assist with completing ADL's. Items
such as eating utensils, raised seating, and reachers.
⩥ Adduction.
Answer: Moving a body part toward the midline of the body.
,⩥ Activities of Daily Living (ADL).
Answer: Personal daily care tasks, such as bathing, dressing, caring for
teeth and nails. Eating, drinking, walking, transferring, and elimination.
⩥ Admission.
Answer: the act of allowing to enter; would take vitals, weight, and
height.
⩥ Admitting Resident.
Answer: Beginning process of a patient; admission of a resident into a
long-term care facility.
⩥ Advance Directives.
Answer: Legal documents that allow people to decide what medical care
they wish to have if they are unable to make these decisions themselves.
⩥ Affected Side.
Answer: A weakened side of the body due to a stroke or injury; also
called involved side.
⩥ Aging Process.
Answer: the biological changes that take place overtime and affect the
structure and functioning of the body; Pertains to getting older.
, ⩥ Agitation.
Answer: The state of being restless or troubled. Extreme emotional
disturbance.
⩥ AIDS.
Answer: a serious disease of the immune system transmitted through
blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles.
⩥ Alzheimer's.
Answer: A progressive incurable disease that causes tangled nerve fibers
and protein deposits to form in the brain, which eventually cause
dementia.
⩥ Ambulation.
Answer: Walking.
⩥ Amputees.
Answer: an individual who has had a limb removed.
⩥ Anemia.
Answer: condition in which you lack enough healthy red blood cells to
carry adequate oxygen to your body's tissues.
