CNA Practice Test

Before taking the oral temperature of a client who has just finished a cold drink the nurse aide should wait ?

10 to 20 minutes

Which of the following is a correct measurement of urinary out put?

300 cc

How many tips does a quad-cane base have?

4

To convert four ounces of juice to millimiters (mL), the nurse aide should multiply?

4 X30 ML

The heimlich maneuver (abdominal thrush) is used for a client who has?

A blocked air way

To be sure that a client is weight is measured accurately, the client should be weighed?

AT the same time every day

Which of the following stages of dying is usually the final stage?

Acceptance

A nurse aide can assist clients with their spirutual needs by?

Allowing clients to talk about their beliefs

A clients needs to be repositioned but is heavy, and the nurse assistant is not sure if she can move the client by her self, the nurse aide should?

Ask another nurse aide for help

If a nurse aide finds a client who is crying, the nurse aide should?

Ask the client if someything is wrong?

When changing an unsterile dressing dressing, the nurse aide should wash hands?

Before and after the procedure

The best time to prepare for disaster is?

Before it happens

The nurse aide finds a concious client lying on the bathroom floor. The first thing the nurse aide should do is?

Call for assistance for the nurse in charge

A client wakes up during the night and asks for something to eat.The nurse aide should?

Check client's diet before offering nourishment

What is the beginning sign of a pressure sore?

DIscoloration

Anurse aide must wear gloves when?

Doing peri-care

What would be the best way for the nurse aide to promote client independance in bathing a client who has a stroke?

Encourage the client to do as much as possible and assist as needed

How can a nurse aide best help the client who is not accepting a loss?

Encourage the client to talk

When getting ready to dress a client, the nurse aide should?

Give the client a choice of what to wear

The nurse aide notices that a client's mail has been delivered to the clients 's room.The nurse aide should?

Give the client the unopened mail and offer help as needed

Clients have the right to?

Have access to telephone

The last sense a dying client will lose is?

Hearing

If a client is confused, the nurse aide should ?

Help the client to recognize familiar things and people

If a client is sitting in a chair in his room masturbating , the nurse aide should?

Leave the client alone and provide privacy

When a client has a left-sided weakness, what part of a sweater is put on the first?

Left sleeve

When transferring a client most of the clients should be supported by the nurse aide's?

Legs

If a client says, "God is punishing me" or "why me", how should the nurse aide respond?

Listen quietly

In order to communicate clearly with a client who has hearing loss, the nurse aide should?

Look directly at the client when speaking

the normal aging process is best defined as the time when?

Normal body fuctions and senses decline

To prevent dehydration of the client the nurse aide should ?

Offer fluids frequently while the client is awake

When helping a client who is recovering from a storke to walk, the nurse aide should assist?

On the client's weak side

The nurse aide is asked by a confused client what it is: The nurse aide should?

Point to the day in the calendar and say the day

The client offers a nurse a twenty dollar bill as a thank you for all the nurse aide has done. The nurse aide should?

Politely refuse the money.

What is the term for a device used to take the place of a missing body part?

Prosthesis

The purpose for padding side rails on the client's side rails on the client's be is to ?

Protect the client from injury

In giving care according to the client's bill of rights, the nurse aide should?

Provide privacy during the client's personal care

Clean bed linen placed in a client's room but not used should be?

Put in the dirty linen container

To prevent the spread of infection, how should the the nurse aide handle the soiled linens removed from the clients's bed?

Put them in dirty linen container

When making an accupied bed the nurse aide shouls?

Raise side rail on unattended side

Exercises that move each muscle and joint are called?

Range of motion

Which temperature is considered most accurate?

Rectal

What is the process of restoring a disabled client to the highest level of functioning possible?

Rehabilitation

If the nurse aide discovers fire in a client's room, the first thing to do is?

Remove the client

The nurse aide enters a clients room and the client states that he has pain, what should the nurse aide nurse in charge do?

Report it to the nurse in charge?

While assisting a client with a denture care the nurse aide observes that the upper plate is cracked.The nurse aide should?

Report the damage to the nurse in charge

A nurse aide who is active in her church is assigned to care for a client who is not a member of any religious group.The nurse aide should?

Respect the client's beliefs and avoid starting religious disscussions

A new client refuses to wear a clothing protector at lunch. The nurse aide should ?

Respect the clients wishes

The nurse can best show that he is listening to the client by?

Responsing when appropiate

All of the following situations are examples of abuse and neglect except?

Restraining a client according to a physician's order

Which of the following methods is the correct way to remove a dirty isolation gown?

Roll the dirty side in and away from the body

A client is upset and crying over the recent death of her husband.Hopw should the nurse aide respond?

Sit with the client and allow her to discuss her feelings

The nurse aide is in the employee dining room.A group of nurse aides are eating lunch together and begin disscussing how rude a certain client was acting.The nurse aide should?

Suggest this is not the place to discuss the the client

If a nurse aide needs to wear a gown to care for a client in isolation the nurse aide must?

Take the gown off before leaving the clients room

The nurse aide is caring for a client who is agitated. The nurse aide should?

Talk slow, calm in a reassuring mannner

It is appropiate for a nurse aide to share the information regading a client's status with?

The staff on the next shift

A safety device used to to assist a dependent client from a bed to a chair is?

Tranfer/ gait bell

To avoid pulling the catherer when turning a male client, the catherer tube must be taped to the client's?

Upper thigh

Proper use of a waist restraint requires that the nurse aide?

Watch for skin irritation

The role of the ombudsman is to?

Work with the nursing home to protect clients rights

To best communicate a client who is totally deaf, the nurse aide should?

Write out information