CNA STATE BOARD EXAM REVIEW
A CNA is caring for a patient who has an order for restraints. How often should the
restraints be released? - Answers -Every 2 hours
How often should a CNA reposition a to prevent skin breakdown/ - Answers -Every 2
hours
Upon enter a patients room, you notice the patient has removed their restraints. What
should be done first? - Answers -Report the finding to the nurse
A patient coworkers ask you (the CNA) about the patients test results. Whats the most
appropriate response? - Answers -I will go get the doctor for you.
What is palliative care? - Answers -Type of care give to the severally ill. Goal is to
relieve pain and control symptoms.
What is postmodernism? - Answers -Care for a body after death.
What is hospice? - Answers -Passionate way of care ordered by a doctor for patients
with 6 mths or less to live.
Which sense is usually last to leave the body when a person is dying? - Answers -
Hearing
What is bereavement therapy? - Answers -A type of grief counseling
What are the five stages of grief? - Answers -denial, anger, bargaining, depression,
acceptance
OSHA - Answers -Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a government
agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment for
employees.
R.A.C.E. - Answers -Rescue, Activate alarm, Contain fire, Extinguish fire
P.A.S.S. - Answers -Pull the pin, Aim at base of fire, Squeeze the handle, Sweep at
base of fire.
Cerebrovascular Accident [CVA] - Answers -Stroke. Lack of blood supply to the brain
causing brain damage
Artires - Answers -Blood vessels that carries oxygenated blood away from the heart,
except for pulmonary artery.
, Veins - Answers -Blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart, except
for pulmonary veins.
Phantom Sensation - Answers -warmth, itching, or tingling from a body part that has
been amputated
Phantom Pain - Answers -pain or discomfort felt in an amputated limb
Brain Hemispheres - Answers -RIGHT: controls the left side of the body
LEFT: controls the right side of the body
Dementia - Answers -a slowly progressive decline in mental abilities, including memory,
thinking, and judgment, that is often accompanied by personality changes
* Alzheimer's disease - most common form of dementia
Cognition - Answers -Ability to think clearly & logically
Paraplegia and Quadriplegia - Answers -paralysis
para - below hips
quad - all four limbs
Cancer - Answers -Benign — Non Cancerous
Malignant — Cancerous
Metastasize — Spread from start sight to other parts of the body.
AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) - Answers -a life-threatening, sexually
transmitted infection caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS
depletes the immune system, leaving the person vulnerable to infections.
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) - Answers -A virus that attacks and destroys the
human immune system.
Rehab & Restorative - Answers -ROM - range of motion
AROM - exercise done alone
AAROM - exercise done with some help
PROM - activities done w/o assistance of patient
ABDUCTION - moving away from midline
ADDUCTION - moving towards midline
EXTENSION - Straightening a body part
DORSIFLEXION - bending backwards
PRONATION - turning downward
SUPINATION - turning upward
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