PCA COMPETENCY TEST (GEORGIA
EXAM) EXAM WITH CORRECT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
❖ Reinforce a dressing. - CORRECT-ANSWERSTrue
❖ Apply a hot pack. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Give an enema. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Administer medication. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Change a sterile dressing. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Assist with change of a colostomy bag. - CORRECT-ANSWERSTrue
❖ Give a rectal suppository. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Give a tubal feeding. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ give insulin - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Cut Nails - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ As a Personal Care Assistant, you - CORRECT-ANSWERSwork as part of
the health care team.
❖ When you work in the home, you will be: - CORRECT-ANSWERSworking
under the supervision of a professional supervisor.
,❖ As Personal Care Assistant, it is your responsibility to: - CORRECT-
ANSWERSdo only the tasks that the registered nurse or therapist assigns
to you
❖ In the home, it is important to be a good listener. - CORRECT-
ANSWERSTrue
❖ Always tell the patient what you are going to do before starting a
procedure. - CORRECT-ANSWERSTrue
❖ You only communicate through words. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Which of the following is important in communicating with people: -
CORRECT-ANSWERSCourtesy, Tact , listening
❖ Body language is: - CORRECT-ANSWERSa way of communicating feelings
by using the body, facial expressions and the eyes
❖ PCA care for a conscious patient should be preceded by: - CORRECT-
ANSWERSgiving an explanation of what is going to be done
❖ Miss Harris, a Personal Care Assistant, is assigned to care for Mr.
Goodway. Miss Harris
❖ notices that she feels very angry when she is with Mr. Goodway. What
should Miss
, ❖ Harris do because she feels this way? - CORRECT-ANSWERSTalk with the
agency supervisor about the situation.
❖ A patient accuses a Personal Care Assistant of stealing five dollars. The
PCA has not taken
❖ the patient's money, but the patient does not believe this. What should
the PCA do? - CORRECT-ANSWERSNotify the agency supervisor.
❖ If you do not chart a task that you do for a patient, legally, it was not
done. - CORRECT-ANSWERSTrue
❖ If the patient has a new area of skin breakdo� and the nurse is coming in
two
❖ days, you do not need to report the skin breakdown to your supervisor. -
CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ A rapid pulse and shortness of breath in a patient usually indicates the
patient is
❖ excited and does not need to be reported to the nurse. - CORRECT-
ANSWERSFalse
❖ The patient tells you he has not moved his bowels in three days: What
should you do? - CORRECT-ANSWERSReport it to the nursing supervisor.
EXAM) EXAM WITH CORRECT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
❖ Reinforce a dressing. - CORRECT-ANSWERSTrue
❖ Apply a hot pack. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Give an enema. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Administer medication. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Change a sterile dressing. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Assist with change of a colostomy bag. - CORRECT-ANSWERSTrue
❖ Give a rectal suppository. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Give a tubal feeding. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ give insulin - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Cut Nails - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ As a Personal Care Assistant, you - CORRECT-ANSWERSwork as part of
the health care team.
❖ When you work in the home, you will be: - CORRECT-ANSWERSworking
under the supervision of a professional supervisor.
,❖ As Personal Care Assistant, it is your responsibility to: - CORRECT-
ANSWERSdo only the tasks that the registered nurse or therapist assigns
to you
❖ In the home, it is important to be a good listener. - CORRECT-
ANSWERSTrue
❖ Always tell the patient what you are going to do before starting a
procedure. - CORRECT-ANSWERSTrue
❖ You only communicate through words. - CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ Which of the following is important in communicating with people: -
CORRECT-ANSWERSCourtesy, Tact , listening
❖ Body language is: - CORRECT-ANSWERSa way of communicating feelings
by using the body, facial expressions and the eyes
❖ PCA care for a conscious patient should be preceded by: - CORRECT-
ANSWERSgiving an explanation of what is going to be done
❖ Miss Harris, a Personal Care Assistant, is assigned to care for Mr.
Goodway. Miss Harris
❖ notices that she feels very angry when she is with Mr. Goodway. What
should Miss
, ❖ Harris do because she feels this way? - CORRECT-ANSWERSTalk with the
agency supervisor about the situation.
❖ A patient accuses a Personal Care Assistant of stealing five dollars. The
PCA has not taken
❖ the patient's money, but the patient does not believe this. What should
the PCA do? - CORRECT-ANSWERSNotify the agency supervisor.
❖ If you do not chart a task that you do for a patient, legally, it was not
done. - CORRECT-ANSWERSTrue
❖ If the patient has a new area of skin breakdo� and the nurse is coming in
two
❖ days, you do not need to report the skin breakdown to your supervisor. -
CORRECT-ANSWERSFalse
❖ A rapid pulse and shortness of breath in a patient usually indicates the
patient is
❖ excited and does not need to be reported to the nurse. - CORRECT-
ANSWERSFalse
❖ The patient tells you he has not moved his bowels in three days: What
should you do? - CORRECT-ANSWERSReport it to the nursing supervisor.
