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How do you promote communication with a resident? - Correct Answer A resident wants to use the commode, but she needs help... what do you do? - Correct Answer ✅Use a gait belt What is the temperature of a TEPID bath? - Correct Answer ✅80-93 `F What is the temperature of a SITZ bath? - Correct Answer ✅Sitz- seat. The perineal and rectal areas are immersed in WARM or HOT water (93-98-106) What is the oral temperature? - Correct Answer ✅97.6-99. A male resident wants to use a urinal, what do you tell him to do when he is done? - Correct Answer ✅use call light/call for help promptly or while waiting for help- place in side rails A doctor comes in and give an order for a new treatment before leaving, what do you do? - Correct Answer ✅Let the doctor speak to the nurse.
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How should you be positioned when applying TED hose? - Correct Answer ✅Wide base of support Legs between 12-24 inches apart. Check ever 2 hours. Remove every 8 hours for 30 min As a CNA, what can you do to help a resident who is being discharged? - Correct Answer ✅Help in packing resident's things away. You are in a resident's room and you see a bottle of disinfectant that housekeeping left behind, what do you do? - Correct Answer ✅Remove it from the resident's room immediately. Calculate the resident's total INTAKE for the 3-11 shift there will be an illustration for this question - Correct Answer ✅1 oz = 30 mL How do you take a random urine specimen? - Correct Answer ✅Used for routine urinalysis
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-the specimen contains stools You answer the phone but the person meant to call a different unit, what do you do? - Correct Answer ✅Transfer the call. (pg.56) A resident wth dementia is getting agitated and thinks he lost his keys, what do you do? - Correct Answer ✅Tell him you will help him find his keys What do you do to a room when a resident checks out? - Correct Answer ✅Disinfect the room. A resident is in isolation. What do you do with their food tray when they done eating? - Correct Answer ✅Double bag outside the room and send it to the kitchen. What do you do with a residents BM when you empty their colostomy bag? - Correct Answer ✅Flush in the toilet
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How many times do you ambulate a resident when the care plan states ambulate with BID? - Correct Answer ✅BID- twice a day TID- Three times a day QID- Four times a day You walk into a room and there is a trash can on fire. What is the first thing you should do? - Correct Answer ✅Remove/protect the residents. R-remove resident A-alarm C-confine, close doors E-evacuate How should a gait belt be applied? - Correct Answer ✅Over clothes with buckle off center How should an cold compress be applied? - Correct Answer ✅With cloth bag = Ice pack
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How to read a Fahrenheit and Centigrade thermometer? - Correct Answer ✅F= 0.2 of a degree (short line) C= 0.1 of a degree (long line) Blue-oral and axillary thermometers- long/slender tips/pear shaped tip Red-rectal termometers- stubby tips Where do you throw away an ostomy? - Correct Answer ✅Facility approved bag Resident was alert and is now hard to arouse and unresponsive. What do you do? - Correct Answer ✅Tell the nurse How does a Diabetic diet work? - Correct Answer ✅Give same amount of carbs, protein, fats everyday at the same time.
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What is a step you can take as a CNA to prevent resident poisoning? - Correct Answer ✅-Make sure patients and residents cannot reach hazardous material -Follow agency policy for storing personal care items -Keep harmful products in their original containers -Leave the original label on harmful products -Read all labels carefully before using a product. Residents with dementia is on the commode, how long should you leave them alone? - Correct Answer ✅Never Can a urine contaminate a stool sample? - Correct Answer ✅Yes What is PPE worn for? - Correct Answer ✅Contact precautions What does rehabilitation and restorative nursing care focus on? - Correct Answer ✅The whole person and what the person can do.
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ex. Flexion A CNA is aware that for stool collection... - Correct Answer ✅Must be 1/2 cup must not be contaminated A resident continues to call you Sally, his daughters name, what do you tell him? - Correct Answer ✅Ask him to tell you about his daughter Sally. How do you help a resident participate with activities on time? - Correct Answer ✅Make sure they have an activities schedule be flexible as the CNA, and work the patients routine care around the activities schedule. When do you give PM care? - Correct Answer ✅After lunch Before bed After visitors leave in the evening
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A patient that is playing bingo receives a phone call. What do you do? - Correct Answer ✅Bring the phone call to them in the activities area bring them back to their room and close the door to give privacy You answer a phone call for a resident while she is in the dining room and it is her daughter, she asks you about her mothers condition and treatment. What do you do? - Correct Answer ✅Refer daughters questions to nurse A patient asks you for her blood pressure readings after you check it, What do you do? - Correct Answer ✅Provide her the reading Before helping a patient stand, you raise the head of the bed and let the patients legs dangle, what does this do? - Correct Answer ✅This prevents orthostatic hypotension- low blood pressure when person stands up What do you do if a patients temperature is 101.2? - Correct Answer ✅Tell the nurse
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Before shaving a resident, what do you check first? - Correct Answer ✅If they are on blood thinners. What other information is on their ID bracelet - Correct Answer ✅Their doctors name. If you have independent patients and you made his/her bed, how should you leave the bed? - Correct Answer ✅In sitting height When assisting in urinal disposal you should? - Correct Answer ✅Use a standard/universal precautions When patient is being combative, what should you do? - Correct Answer ✅Leave the room and come back when the patient is not upset. What items need to be marked as isolation? - Correct Answer ✅When bringing it out
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When resident requested for 1 side rail up only, what should you do? - Correct Answer ✅Keep either 1 side rail up How do you promote communication? - Correct Answer ✅Asking open ended questions At what point the bacteria disappears in hand washing? - Correct Answer ✅During friction from rubbing When patient is in cold compress, the CNA will report promptly if? - Correct Answer ✅The skin is cyanotic- bluish discoloration When talking to a patient with hearing disability, what should you do? - Correct Answer ✅Reduce outside noise Patients respiration is 33 per minutes - Correct Answer ✅Tachypnea- fast breathing
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Perineal care - Correct Answer ✅105-109 `F Duration: Finger soak - Correct Answer ✅5-10min Duration: Feet soak - Correct Answer ✅15-20min Urine production - Correct Answer ✅1500 mL or 3 pints per day Suppository takes effect (any drugs takes effect in) - Correct Answer ✅ 30 mins later Enema volume - Correct Answer ✅750-1000 mL : given over 10-15 min Enema takes effects in - Correct Answer ✅10-20 min
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Enema tubing insertion - Correct Answer ✅2 to 4 inches Ostomy pouch - Correct Answer ✅Changed every 3 to 7 days when it leaks 1gm fat 1gm protein 1gm carbohydrate - Correct Answer ✅fat = 9 calories protein = 4 calories carb = 4 calories NGT feeding: Maintain semi fowlers/ fowlers - Correct Answer ✅For 1 to 2 hours after the feeding or at all times NGT feeding: clean nose and nostrils - Correct Answer ✅For every 4 to 8 hours Oral glass thermometer leave for - Correct Answer ✅2-3 min
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Restraints are released every - Correct Answer ✅2 hours : for 10 min Patients sitting on chair or wheelchairs should shift positions every - Correct Answer ✅15 min Reposition bedfast persons at least - Correct Answer ✅2 hours Reposition chair fast persons every - Correct Answer ✅1 hours Transfer from wheelchair to car, position wheelchair at - Correct Answer ✅ 45 degree angle Deep breathing and coughing every - Correct Answer ✅1-2 hours while awake Hot - Correct Answer ✅98- Warm - Correct Answer ✅93-
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Tepid - Correct Answer ✅80- Cool - Correct Answer ✅65- Cold - Correct Answer ✅50- Rectal Temp - Correct Answer ✅98.6-100.6 (99.6) Tympanic membrane (ear) temp - Correct Answer ✅98. Oral temp - Correct Answer ✅97.6-99.6 (98.6) Axillary (armpit) temp - Correct Answer ✅96.6-98.6 (97.6) Pulse - Correct Answer ✅60-100 beats per min
