Chapter 3: The Nursing Assistant Study Guide Exam And Actual Answers.
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Course
Nursing Assistant
Institution
Nursing Assistant
To authorize another person to perform a nursing task in a certain situation. - Answer Delegate.
Nursing care or a nursing procedure, activity, or work that can be delegated to nursing assistants when it does NOT require an RN's professional knowledge or judgement. - Answer Nursing task.
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Chapter 3: The Nursing Assistant Study
Guide Exam And Actual Answers.
To authorize another person to perform a nursing task in a certain situation. - Answer Delegate.
Nursing care or a nursing procedure, activity, or work that can be delegated to nursing assistants when it
does NOT require an RN's professional knowledge or judgement. - Answer Nursing task.
Being responsible for one's actions & the actions of others who perform delegated tasks. - Answer
Accountable.
The duty or obligation to perform some act or function. - Answer Responsibility.
A document that describes what the agency expects you to do. - Answer Job description.
Until the 1980s, nursing assistants - Answer Received on-the-job training from nurses.
Efforts to reduce health care costs include - Answer Hospital closings & mergers.
When staff members are given training to perform basic skills that are provided by other health team
members, it is called - Answer Cross-training.
An example of cross-training would be - Answer A member of the nursing team draws blood when the
order is given.
Nurse Practice Acts - Answer Define RNs, LPNs/LVNs & sometimes also regulate nursing assistants.
________________ decides what nursing assistants can do. - Answer The nurse practice act.
, If you do something beyond the legal limits of your role, you could be - Answer Practicing nursing
without a license.
Nursing assistants can have their certification, license, or registration denied, revoked, or suspended for -
Answer Violating the privacy of a patient or resident, failing to maintain the confidentiality of patient or
resident information, & abusing a patient or resident.
OBRA requires that the nursing assistant training & competency evaluation program have at least _____
hours of instruction. - Answer 75.
Which of these areas of study is NOT included in a training program for nursing assistants? - Answer
Phlebotomy (drawing blood).
The competency evaluation for nursing assistants has two parts. They are a - Answer Written test & a
skills test.
If you fail the competency evaluation the first time it is taken, you - Answer Can retest two more times
for a total of three times.
All of the following information is contained in the nursing assistant registry EXCEPT - Answer Number
of dependents.
OBRA requires that retraining & a new competency evaluation test must be taken if you have NOT
worked as a certified nursing assistant for - Answer 2 consecutive years.
If you want to work in another state, the state agency will require all of these EXCEPT - Answer Proof of
full-time employment within the last month.
Your work as a nursing assistant is supervised by - Answer A licensed nurse.
As a nursing assistant, you never give medications unless - Answer You have completed a state-
approved medication assistant training program.
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