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Missouri CNA Exam Questions and Answers
Abandonment - Ans:✔✔-leaving resident unattended
Abduction - Ans:✔✔-away from the center (midline) of the body. (used for post hip operations spread
legs apart)
Abrasion - Ans:✔✔-a scraping or rubbing of the skin
Abuse - Ans:✔✔-the infliction of physical, sexual, or emotional injury or harm
Active-assistive ROM - Ans:✔✔-the nurse assistant assists the resident in performing the exercise
Active range of motion exercises - Ans:✔✔-movements carried out by the resident
Activities of daily living (ADL) - Ans:✔✔-any activity that is performed in one's life on a daily basis
Acute - Ans:✔✔-developing rapidly with pronounced symptoms and lasting a short time, rapid onset,
short term
Adduction - Ans:✔✔-toward the center (Midline) of the body
Admission - Ans:✔✔-process of checking a resident into the facility
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Advance directive - Ans:✔✔-a document that designates the resident's wishes in the event that he/she is
unable to speak for himself/herself (Living Will)
Advocate - Ans:✔✔-a person who defends someone else
Afebrile - Ans:✔✔-without fever
Agitation - Ans:✔✔-vocal or motor behaviors such as shouting, fidgeting, pacing, screaming, or
wandering
Agnosia - Ans:✔✔-loss of the ability to recognize familiar objects
Alzheimer's disease - Ans:✔✔-a progressive impairment of memory, reasoning, and judgment that is
related to cellular changes within the brain and the leads to loss of independence in activities of daily
living
Ambulation - Ans:✔✔-ability to walk
ambulatory - Ans:✔✔-able to walk
Anterior - Ans:✔✔-toward the front
Anti-embolismstockings - Ans:✔✔-elastic hosiery used to minimize the occurrence of edema and blood
clots
Anus - Ans:✔✔-outlet of the rectum
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Aphasia - Ans:✔✔-language difficulty due to brain damage, which can effect listening, speaking, reading
and writing skills: loss of the ability to use or understand language (stroke)
Apical pulse - Ans:✔✔-pulse taken at the apex of the heart ( only can be taken with a stethoscope)
Apraxia - Ans:✔✔-loss of the ability to carry out planned movements as will (dressing, eating, bathing)
Arteries - Ans:✔✔-blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
Arterioslerosis - Ans:✔✔-loss of elasticity in the walls of the blood vessels (hardening of the artery's)
Arthritis - Ans:✔✔-inflammation of the joint
Asepsis - Ans:✔✔-the absence of germs
Aseptic - Ans:✔✔-free of microorganisms
Aspiration - Ans:✔✔-to draw fluid or object into the lung when breathing in (stroke or if resident is
eating and starts to cough talk to charge Nurse)
Assault - Ans:✔✔-threat or attempt to injure another in an unlawful manner
Assessment - Ans:✔✔-an appraisal of the whole person in establish a baseline and determine the
resident's potential and his need for help
Atherosclerosis - Ans:✔✔-accumulation of fat deposits inside of arteries, making them more narrow
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Missouri CNA Exam Questions and Answers
Abandonment - Ans:✔✔-leaving resident unattended
Abduction - Ans:✔✔-away from the center (midline) of the body. (used for post hip operations spread
legs apart)
Abrasion - Ans:✔✔-a scraping or rubbing of the skin
Abuse - Ans:✔✔-the infliction of physical, sexual, or emotional injury or harm
Active-assistive ROM - Ans:✔✔-the nurse assistant assists the resident in performing the exercise
Active range of motion exercises - Ans:✔✔-movements carried out by the resident
Activities of daily living (ADL) - Ans:✔✔-any activity that is performed in one's life on a daily basis
Acute - Ans:✔✔-developing rapidly with pronounced symptoms and lasting a short time, rapid onset,
short term
Adduction - Ans:✔✔-toward the center (Midline) of the body
Admission - Ans:✔✔-process of checking a resident into the facility
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Advance directive - Ans:✔✔-a document that designates the resident's wishes in the event that he/she is
unable to speak for himself/herself (Living Will)
Advocate - Ans:✔✔-a person who defends someone else
Afebrile - Ans:✔✔-without fever
Agitation - Ans:✔✔-vocal or motor behaviors such as shouting, fidgeting, pacing, screaming, or
wandering
Agnosia - Ans:✔✔-loss of the ability to recognize familiar objects
Alzheimer's disease - Ans:✔✔-a progressive impairment of memory, reasoning, and judgment that is
related to cellular changes within the brain and the leads to loss of independence in activities of daily
living
Ambulation - Ans:✔✔-ability to walk
ambulatory - Ans:✔✔-able to walk
Anterior - Ans:✔✔-toward the front
Anti-embolismstockings - Ans:✔✔-elastic hosiery used to minimize the occurrence of edema and blood
clots
Anus - Ans:✔✔-outlet of the rectum
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Aphasia - Ans:✔✔-language difficulty due to brain damage, which can effect listening, speaking, reading
and writing skills: loss of the ability to use or understand language (stroke)
Apical pulse - Ans:✔✔-pulse taken at the apex of the heart ( only can be taken with a stethoscope)
Apraxia - Ans:✔✔-loss of the ability to carry out planned movements as will (dressing, eating, bathing)
Arteries - Ans:✔✔-blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
Arterioslerosis - Ans:✔✔-loss of elasticity in the walls of the blood vessels (hardening of the artery's)
Arthritis - Ans:✔✔-inflammation of the joint
Asepsis - Ans:✔✔-the absence of germs
Aseptic - Ans:✔✔-free of microorganisms
Aspiration - Ans:✔✔-to draw fluid or object into the lung when breathing in (stroke or if resident is
eating and starts to cough talk to charge Nurse)
Assault - Ans:✔✔-threat or attempt to injure another in an unlawful manner
Assessment - Ans:✔✔-an appraisal of the whole person in establish a baseline and determine the
resident's potential and his need for help
Atherosclerosis - Ans:✔✔-accumulation of fat deposits inside of arteries, making them more narrow
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