CNA - First Aid

Which of the following conditions may mean a person needs emergency medical help?

• Person is behaving rudely.

• Person has a scratch.

• Person does not want help.

• Person is unconscious.

The first two steps in approaching an emergency are

• Perform first aid and assess the situation

• Call the victim’s family and then call 911

• Assess the situation and the victim

• Get assistance and perform CPR

After an emergency, the nursing assistant will need to

• Document the incident

• Give an opinion about what is wrong with the resident

• Tell the resident she is very worried about his condition

• Prescribe medication for the resident

When a person’s breathing stops, it is called

• Cardiac arrest

• Respiratory arrest

• CPR

• Choking

If a person’s breathing and heartbeat stop, brain damage can occur within ______ minutes.

• 4-6

• 8-10

• 10-15

• 15-20

If a nursing assistant is in an emergency situation but has not been trained to perform CPR, she should

• Perform CPR anyway

• Ask someone at the scene to tell her how to do it

• Give basic first aid until the emergency medical team arrives

• Do nothing

In which of the following situations should a nursing assistant give abdominal thrusts to someone?

• The person is coughing.

• The person cannot speak, cough, or breathe.

• The person is breathing very rapidly.

• The person tells the nursing assistant that she feels short of breath.

One sign that a person is in shock is

• Flushed or reddish skin

• Decreased pulse and respiration rates

• Increased blood pressure

• Extreme thirst

To control bleeding, a nursing assistant should

• Use her bare hands to stop it

• Lower the wound below the heart

• Hold a thick pad or clean cloth against the wound and press down hard

• Apply light pressure with a Band-aid

If a resident has a minor burn, a nursing assistant should use _____ to decrease the temperature of the skin.l

• Ice or ice water

• Cool water

• Burn ointment

• Olive or canola oil