CNA Priorities and Priority Setting Practice Test – Part 2

1. You enter a resident’s room to give her care. When you are standing next to her bed, you see a pill on the floor next to the bed. What should you do?

2. How can you best prepare for the admissions of three new residents from the hospital who can feed themselves but need assistance to the bathroom?

3. When giving care to a resident, which of his rights are you enforcing when you close the door or curtain before starting?

4. Verbal bullying, among school aged children, threatens which of Maslow’s needs?

5. The resident’s vitals are 99, pulse 98, respirations 36. Which of these findings needs to be reported immediately to the nurse?

6. Your patient is concerned about their health insurance and the costs associated with their hospital care which of Maslow’s needs is your patient expressing?

7. You notice the floor in the hall is wet from a food tray spill. Your next action should be to:

8. While providing care for a resident, a co-worker enters the room to ask you a question unrelated to resident care. Your best response is to:

9. Which of the following needs has the least priority?

10. You have six beds to strip and make. The nurse tells you one of your residents needs to be taken to the bathroom. You should:

11. How can you best assist a vision-impaired resident to eat?

12. In your facility, the patient charts are kept in a cabinet by the patient’s room. You see a family member go into the cabinet and read the patient chart. The family member has a medical power of attorney for the patient. What type of violation is this?

13. You are caring for a resident who is dying of cancer. He smells very bad and as a result, his room smells bad. His visitors have complained about the smell and blamed it on bad housekeeping and not being bathed. After you inform the nurse and ask her to talk to the family, what is your appropriate action?

14. You are taking vital signs for a group of elderly residents which Vital sign characteristic must be reported immediately because it is the greatest priority?

15. What step must be done before every procedure?

16. You are a CNA in a children’s home while you are bathing a severely mentally challenged girl you notice bruising in her perineal area what should you do?

17. Race is the acronym for the things you must do in the case of a fire. What is the first thing that you do if a fire breaks out?

18. Which of Maslow’s needs is the least priority?

19. You have a new admission on your resident assignment which information should you make sure the resident is aware of?

20. Of all the patient needs, which one is the greatest priority?

21. You are serving trays in the dining room. You know that Mrs. Smith is a diabetic and that her diet calls for a 2,000 calorie ADA diet. The kitchen has put the following food items on her tray: mashed potatoes, apple juice, macaroni and cheese, meatloaf, and a brownie. What should you do?

22. What type of footwear should a resident have on his or her feet when being transferred from a bed to a wheelchair?

23. What color is the cornea in a blue-eyed person?

24. Your resident’s family brought in five new blouses. Your action should now be to:

25. You enter Miss Harris’s room and note her respirations are rapid and she is having trouble catching her breath. After notifying the nurse, you should: