CNA EXAM (A-D)

What can a nurse aide do?

  • Personal Care (ADL)

    • Bathing

    • Face washing

    • Mouth hygiene

    • Hair care

    • Nail Care

    • Bedmaking

    • Dressing and Undressing

  • Body Mechanism

    • Lifting

    • Turn and position

    • Range of motion stretches

    • Transfer

  • Nutrition

    • Helping the patient eat

    • Making meals

    • Intake and output

  • Elimination

    • Bedpin/Urinal

    • Catheter care

    • Collecting tests and specimens

  • Safety

    • Preventing infections (Handwashing, Isolation, standards of practices)

    • CPR/Heimlich

  • Special Procedures

    • Vital signs

    • Height and weight

    • Postmortem care

What are things a Nurse Aid can not do?

  • IVS

  • Medications of ANY kind

  • Suction

  • Deep wound care

  • No needles

When you meet someone, what do you use?

  • First name and last name

What is Empathy?

  • When you understand without feeling sorry, Understanding where they are coming from

What is infection prevention?

  • Steps we take to prevent infections and stop the spread

A person who got a UTI in the hospital is a

  • Hospital-acquired (associated) disease

UTI symptoms

  • Smells (strong smell of amonion

  • Cloudy yellow color

  • Confusion in older people

  • Burn when urinating

  • Can become a systemic infection if there is fever and chills

How many links do I have to break

  • 1 link to break all 6

What are the most important things to prevent infection?

  • Washing your hands

Standard precautions

  • Standards you have to follow for everybody

What are transmission-based precautions?

  • Additional to standards for extra precautions

Older people are..

  • Are more prone to falling and getting hurt

  • Have decrease motility and therefore an increase infection

What is PASS?

  • Pull (Pull the trigger on fire extinguisher)

  • Aim (aim at the fire)

  • Squeeze (squeeze the handle)

  • Sweep (Sweep the area)

What is RACE?

  • Remove residents

  • Activate the alarm

  • Contain the fire

  • Extinguish the fire

What is a safety concern (what do you not want)

Some safety concerns are..

  • Cleaning supplies

  • Open wires

  • Wet floor

  • Improper oxygen use

  • Lighting

  • Mess in the home or area

What makes you the highest risk for falling?

  • Age

  • Health concerns/procedures

  • Weakness

  • Shoes

Some things that keep people safe

  • Bed low and locked

  • Have a call bell in hand

  • Wheelchairs locked

  • Do not run

  • Carrying needles upwards

When to make sure you have the right person

  • Before performing task oriented exams ask for name and birthday

What type of hazard is oxygen?

  • Fire and explosive hazard

How to sit up when you eat

  • Upwards by 90 degrees.

Reminiscing Therapy

  • When you promote your client to think about the good times of the person who passed away,

The best way to communicate with residents

  • Not speaking medical terms

  • Not confusing them

  • Be quite when they are quiet

If someone can’t speak English well, then what do you do?

  • Get a translator to translate

  • Use words they do know

Barriers to communication

  • Not speaking the same language

  • Lack of privacy

  • Speaking too fast

  • Confusion

  • Speaking of medicine

3 parts of the receiver

  • Sender

  • Receiver

  • Feedback

How to communicate with the deaf

  • Write things down

  • Look them in the eye and pronounce

What are the 5 rights of Delegation

  1. Right person

  2. Right Task

  3. Right communication

  4. Right directions and communication

  5. Right supervision and evaluation