How can the nursing assistant best ensure the safety of a resident who is legally blind?

• Keep the call light within easy reach.

• Keep an overhead light in front of the resident.

• Speak loudly when addressing the resident.

• When assisting residents to walk, stand in front of them and hold their hand to guide them.

Which of the following is the best way to communicate with a resident who is completely deaf?

• speak loudly and clearly

• smile and turn on the television

• write out all communication

• sit next to the resident and speak into his or her ear

A progressive, irreversible neurological condition causing a gradual loss of brain functioning

• Parkinson's

• Alzheimer's

• Diabetes

• Sundowner's

What is the FIRST thing a CNA should do when finding an unresponsive client?

• Close the door

• Call family

• Start compressions

• Call for help

Clean bed linen placed in a clients room but not used should be...

• Put in the dirty linen container

• Taken to the nurse in charge

• Used for the client in the next room

• Returned to the linen closet

Tuberculosis may be transmitted

• By coughing

• By dancing

• By wearing gloves

• Through a protective mask

Transmission-Based precautions are used

• With every resident under a nursing assistants care

• In addition to standard precautions

• Instead of standard precautions

• When a nursing assistant decides that they are appropriate for particular residents

If the nurse aide discovers fire in a residents room the first thing to do is

• Call the nurse in charge

• Open a window

• Remove the client

• Try to put out the fire

A resident is paralyzed on the right side. The nurse aide should place the signaling device

• Under the pillow

• On the left side of the bed near the residents hand

• At the foot of the bed

• On the right side of the bed near residents hand

The nurse aide is going to help the resident walk from the bed to the chair. What should the nurse aide put on the clients feet?

• Cloth-soled slippers

• Nothing

• Non-slip socks or shoes

• Socks or stockings only