2024 CNA Midterm Exam GRADED A+ (ACTUAL EXAM ) Questions and Answers (Solved) 1. What is a nursing assistant? What do they do? Answer : A person who has passed a nursing training and compency evaluation; they perform delegated nursing tasks under the supervision of a licensed nurse 2. The people are called residents. They are not sick enough to be in a hospital but cannot care for themselves. Answer : Describe the persons cared for in long-term care centers 3. Identify the members of the nursing team Answer : The nursing team are those who provide nursing care. They include: NPs, RNs, LPNs/LVNs, CNAs 4. Identify members of the health team 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 5. What are the three things an agency must meet standards for? Answer : Licensure, certification, accreditation 6. Describe the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 and what does it require? Answer : OBRA is federal law. It requires that CNAs pass a training and competen - cy evaluation 7. What are the 11 resident rights? Answer : information; refusing treatment; privacy and confidentiality; personal choice; grievances; work; taking part in resident groups; personal items; freedom from abuse, mistreatment, and neglect; freedom from restraint; quality of life 8. What is an ombudsman and what did they do? Answer : Someone who supports or promotes the needs and interests of another person. They act on behalf of persons receiving care 9. What is the nurse practice act and what does it do? 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 10. Explain what n ursing assistants can do and their role limits 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) 11. Five rights of delegation Answer : The Right Task, Circumstances, Person, Directions and Communication, Supervision. 12. List tasks that cannot be delegated to you Answer : Perform assessments, develop care plans, evaluate response to care, provide education to person or family, su pervise others, take oral or phone orders from doctors, drugs, perform procedures requiring sterile te chnique, insert intravenous catheters 13. Integumentary system Answer : Skin that covers and protects the body 14. Musculoskeletal system Answer : Provides framework for the body and allows it to move. Also protects organs 15. Nervous system Answer : Controls, directs, and coordinates body functions 16. Circulatory system Answer : The heart pumps blood & blood brings oxygen to the cells and carries food to them 17. Lymphatic system Answer : Composed of a network of vessels, ducts, nodes, and organs. Provides defense against infection. 18. Respiratory system Answer : Brings oxygen to the lungs and removes carbon dioxide 19. Digestive system Answer : Removes solid waste from the body 20. Urinary system Answer : Removes waste products from the blood and maintains water balance within the body 21. Reproductive system Answer : produces offspring 22. Endocrine system Answer : Hormones that regulate the activities of other organs and glands in the body 23. Immune system Answer : Protects the body from disease and infection 24. Three main parts of the brain Answer : Cerebrum: largest part of the brain; the center of thought and intelligence Cerebellum: regulates and coordinates body movements Brain stem: Connects cerebrum to the spinal cord. It contains the midbrain, pons, and medulla 25. Midbrain Answer : Associated with vision, hearing, motor control, sleep and wake cycles, alertness, and temperature regulation 26. Pons Answer : Management of sleep, arousal, and facial expressions 27. Medulla Answer : Controls heartbeat and breathing 28. What makes up the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and what do they do? Answer : Sympathetic NS: speed up functions Parasympathetic NS: slows down functions
