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