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CNA (CERTIFIED NURSING
ASSISTANT) MIDTERM E XAM
QUESTIONS CONTAINING 153
TERMS WITH ANSWERS
Question 1: What is a nursing assistant? What do they do?
CORRECT ANSWER: A person who has passed a
nursing training and competency evaluation; they perform delegated nursing tasks under the supervision of a licensed nurse
Question 2: Describe the persons cared for in long-term
care centers
CORRECT ANSWER: The people are called residents.
They are not sick enough to be in a hospital but cannot care for themselves.
Question 3: Identify the members of the nursing team
CORRECT ANSWER: The nursing team are those who
provide nursing care. They include: NPs, RNs,
LPNs/LVNs, CNAs
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Question 4: Identify members of the health team
CORRECT ANSWER: The healthcare team are those
whose skills and knowledge focus on the person's total care. A nursing assistant is part of both the nursing team and the health team
Question 5: What are the three things an agency must
meet standards for?
CORRECT ANSWER: Licensure, certification,
accreditation
Question 6: Describe the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
Act of 1987 and what does it require?
CORRECT ANSWER: OBRA is federal law. It requires
that CNAs pass a training and competency evaluation
Question 7: What are the 11 resident rights?
CORRECT ANSWER: information; refusing treatment;
privacy and confidentiality; personal choice; grievances;
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work; taking part in resident groups; personal items; freedom from abuse, mistreatment, and neglect; freedom from restraint; quality of life
Question 8: What is an ombudsman and what did they
do?
CORRECT ANSWER: Someone who supports or
promotes the needs and interests of another person. They act on behalf of persons receiving care
Question 9: What is the nurse practice act and what does
it do?
CORRECT ANSWER: A law that defines a nurses
scope of practice, describes their education and licensing requirements, and protects the public from people practicing without a license
Question 10: Explain what nursing assistants can do and
their role limits
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CORRECT ANSWER: A CNA can meet the person's
personal needs, transfer persons and make observations, measure TPR and BP, help promote person's comfort A CNA cannot give drugs, insert things into body openings or remove them, take oral/phone orders from doctors, perform procedures that require sterile technique, tell the person or family diagnosis or treatment plans, diagnose and prescribe treatments or drugs, supervise others (even other CNAs)
Question 11: Five rights of delegation
CORRECT ANSWER: The Right Task, Circumstances,
Person, Directions and Communication, Supervision.
Question 12: List tasks that cannot be delegated to you
CORRECT ANSWER: Perform assessments, develop
care plans, evaluate response to care, provide education to person or family, supervise others, take oral or phone orders from doctors, drugs, perform procedures requiring sterile technique, insert intravenous catheters