NT midterm prep

You are asked to a task that you feel is unsafe. How will you handle this?

• Do the task because the nurse delegated to you to do it
• Report you are not comfortable doing the task but do it anyways
• Report you are not comfortable doing the task because it is unsafe to the nurse
  
• Do the task with the supervision of another CNA

What is the role of CNA?

• Give medications
• Assist in patient care
• Take doctor's orders
• Supervise the nurses

To maintain a professional appearance, you should do. Select three answers

• Avoid smiling too much while at work

• Keep your hair pulled back from your face

• Wear a clean, pressed uniform; clean shoes; and a name badge

• Keep you nails clean, trimmed, filed smooth, and free of nail polish

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

How many times can a gown be worn before it needs to be discarded?

• One time

• Two times

• Three times

• Four times

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

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

• Rubber-soled slippers or shoes

• Socks or stockings only

What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)?

• practices employed to reduce the spread of infectious organisms, usually including the separation of the resident with an easily transmitted disease from other residents.

• a federal law passed in 1987 that establishes regulations for nursing facilities and nurse aide training in facilities

• A program approved by the DADS to train and evaluate an individual's ability to act in the capacity of a nurse aide for the purpose of working in a nursing facility.

• a government agency mandated to protect the employee's by establishing and monitoring workplace safety requirements.

To lift an object using good body mechanics, the nurse aide should

• Bend knees and keep back straight

• Hold the object away from the body

• Lift with abdominal muscles

• Keep both feet close together