CNA Test, Chapters 1-4
Name: _________________________________________________
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. After completing the course in December, how long do you have before you expire (if you do not work)?
a. You never expire c. 1 year
b. 5 years d. 2 years
____ 2. What is self-esteem?
a. Sense of ethics c. Value of self
b. Values and morals d. Sense of understanding
____ 3. Which of the following is NOT a purpose of healthcare:
a. Detection d. Public Education
b. Research e. Rehabilitation
c. Financial Gain f. Disease prevention
____ 4. Choose ALL the following that are correct (will have more than 1 answer):
With charting on patients, which of the following are correct?
a. Use a blue pen c. Only use abbreviations facility approved
b. Chart what you are planning to do d. Be objective with your charting
____ 5. A chronic illness is one in which:
a. It is sudden and short c. A person will get better
b. Is it slow and long, and often no cure d. They will end up in a wheelchair
____ 6. Which of these is NOT a role of the nursing assistant:
a. Cleaning a sterile wound c. Observing the patient’s skin
b. Answering the phone d.
____ 9. What things are needed for a fire? (circle all the correct answers below)
a. heat c. oxygen
b. smoke sensor d. fuel
____ 10. You do not assist someone who is choking if they are:
a. turning blue c. unconscious
b. coughing d. not breathing
____ 11. During a grand-mal seizure you do all the following except:
a. place something in the patients mouth so c. remove anything by the patient that he
they won’t bite his tongue could injure himself on
b. roll the patient to his side d. assist the patient to the ground
____ 12. When using an AED device you always say before you shock the patient.
a. “pay attention” c. “hands free”
b. “clear” d. “watch out”
, ____ 13. A finger sweep is
a. brushing dust away with your finger c. a count of ribs for the location of CPR
b. an attempt to clear out a patients mouth or d. brushing the hair our of a victims face
throat before assessing breathing
____ 14. When you respond to an emergency you do all the following, except
a. call or send for help c. move the patient to a softer place to lay
b. know your limitations d. assist medical personal
____ 15. Which of the following transmission routes is the most common way to spread microorganisms:
a. airborne c. exposure
b. droplet d. contact
____ 16. Which of the following is true about sterile packages
a. you can use a sterile object if it has only c. a CNA can open sterile objects for nurses
been open two days ago. or doctors if trained.
b. the sterile field extends to whatever the d. a CNA may insert a Foley catheter.
sterile object is sitting on.
____ 17. All the following about restraints are true, except:
a. you should check on your patient at least c. once the doctor writes the order it is now
every 2 hours. okay to put restraints on a patient.
b. the knot tied should be quick/easy release. d. the restraints are tied to the frame of the
bed.
Completion: Complete each sentence or statement.
18. A code blue means .
19. A duty a CNA may have in a disaster (human or natural disaster) is
20. In the Chain of Infection, the easiest way to break the chain is by ___________________.
Matching
a. Dirty e. Sterile
b. Airborne Precautions f. Clean
c. Bacteria g. Virus
d. Contact Precautions h. Pathogen
____ 21. free of all microorganisms, absence of any germs
____ 22. not contaminated by germs that cause disease, but some germs might be present
____ 23. Hepatitis B (Hep B) or HIV
____ 24. Strep or Staph
____ 25. germs or microbes that can cause disease
____ 26. once a food tray enters a patients room it is considered to be this and cannot be given to another pt
____ 27. in this type of isolation, the microorganism is spread by touch
____ 28. spread by breeze - TB, chickenpox, measles - in this type of isolation
Name: _________________________________________________
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. After completing the course in December, how long do you have before you expire (if you do not work)?
a. You never expire c. 1 year
b. 5 years d. 2 years
____ 2. What is self-esteem?
a. Sense of ethics c. Value of self
b. Values and morals d. Sense of understanding
____ 3. Which of the following is NOT a purpose of healthcare:
a. Detection d. Public Education
b. Research e. Rehabilitation
c. Financial Gain f. Disease prevention
____ 4. Choose ALL the following that are correct (will have more than 1 answer):
With charting on patients, which of the following are correct?
a. Use a blue pen c. Only use abbreviations facility approved
b. Chart what you are planning to do d. Be objective with your charting
____ 5. A chronic illness is one in which:
a. It is sudden and short c. A person will get better
b. Is it slow and long, and often no cure d. They will end up in a wheelchair
____ 6. Which of these is NOT a role of the nursing assistant:
a. Cleaning a sterile wound c. Observing the patient’s skin
b. Answering the phone d.
____ 9. What things are needed for a fire? (circle all the correct answers below)
a. heat c. oxygen
b. smoke sensor d. fuel
____ 10. You do not assist someone who is choking if they are:
a. turning blue c. unconscious
b. coughing d. not breathing
____ 11. During a grand-mal seizure you do all the following except:
a. place something in the patients mouth so c. remove anything by the patient that he
they won’t bite his tongue could injure himself on
b. roll the patient to his side d. assist the patient to the ground
____ 12. When using an AED device you always say before you shock the patient.
a. “pay attention” c. “hands free”
b. “clear” d. “watch out”
, ____ 13. A finger sweep is
a. brushing dust away with your finger c. a count of ribs for the location of CPR
b. an attempt to clear out a patients mouth or d. brushing the hair our of a victims face
throat before assessing breathing
____ 14. When you respond to an emergency you do all the following, except
a. call or send for help c. move the patient to a softer place to lay
b. know your limitations d. assist medical personal
____ 15. Which of the following transmission routes is the most common way to spread microorganisms:
a. airborne c. exposure
b. droplet d. contact
____ 16. Which of the following is true about sterile packages
a. you can use a sterile object if it has only c. a CNA can open sterile objects for nurses
been open two days ago. or doctors if trained.
b. the sterile field extends to whatever the d. a CNA may insert a Foley catheter.
sterile object is sitting on.
____ 17. All the following about restraints are true, except:
a. you should check on your patient at least c. once the doctor writes the order it is now
every 2 hours. okay to put restraints on a patient.
b. the knot tied should be quick/easy release. d. the restraints are tied to the frame of the
bed.
Completion: Complete each sentence or statement.
18. A code blue means .
19. A duty a CNA may have in a disaster (human or natural disaster) is
20. In the Chain of Infection, the easiest way to break the chain is by ___________________.
Matching
a. Dirty e. Sterile
b. Airborne Precautions f. Clean
c. Bacteria g. Virus
d. Contact Precautions h. Pathogen
____ 21. free of all microorganisms, absence of any germs
____ 22. not contaminated by germs that cause disease, but some germs might be present
____ 23. Hepatitis B (Hep B) or HIV
____ 24. Strep or Staph
____ 25. germs or microbes that can cause disease
____ 26. once a food tray enters a patients room it is considered to be this and cannot be given to another pt
____ 27. in this type of isolation, the microorganism is spread by touch
____ 28. spread by breeze - TB, chickenpox, measles - in this type of isolation
