CNA Unit 1 Test Complete Solutions
Nursing Assistant Roles and Responsibilities
1. What are the primary responsibilities of a nursing assistant? Perform delegated basic and personal
care skills, use appropriate interpersonal skills, observe patients and report any changes.
2. What are the l...
CNA Unit 1 Test Complete Solutions
Nursing Assistant Roles and Responsibilities
1. What are the primary responsibilities of a nursing assistant? Perform delegated basic and personal
care skills, use appropriate interpersonal skills, observe patients and report any changes.
2. What are the legal limitations of a nursing assistant? They cannot perform tasks that require medical
training, such as inserting/remove tubes, changing sterile dressings, giving tube feedings, or
administering medications.
Nursing Assistant Qualities and Characteristics
3. What qualities and characteristics should a nursing assistant possess? Compassionate, honest, tactful,
conscientious, dependable, respectful, unprejudiced, tolerant.
4. How should a nursing assistant maintain good personal hygiene practices? Practice good hygiene
habits such as bathing, brushing teeth, keeping long hair tied back, wearing clean uniforms that fit, and
keeping facial hair short and neat.
Nursing Assistant Roles and Settings
5. What are some alternative names for nursing assistants? Nurse aid, certified nurse aid, unlicensed
assistive personnel, patient care tech, certified nursing assistant.
6. Where might a nursing assistant work? Home healthcare, assisted living facilities, adult day services,
acute care facilities, subacute care facilities, outpatient care facilities, rehabilitation centers, hospice
care facilities.
Ethics and Laws
7. What is ethics in the context of healthcare? Moral principles that guide a person's behavior or the
conduct of an activity.
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