CNA Legal and Ethical Behavior Quiz - NS

The nurse aide sees a person place an unmarked box outside the client's window and walk away. The nurse aide should immediately:

• go get the box and bring it inside

• try to ignore the box until work is over

• ask the client if he knows someone who is bringing him a present

• notify security of this suspicious activity

A nurse aide finds a wallet in the middle of the hall. The nurse aide SHOULD:

• go up and down the hall asking if someone lost a wallet

• ask a nurse to help him locate the name of the owner

• put the wallet in a drawer and wait for someone to claim it

• open the wallet and attempt to find the driver's license

When the nurse aide arrives at work, he is told he will need to work on a different unit because that unit has a very high census. The nurse aide has never worked on that unit and does not want to go to another unit. The BEST thing for the nurse aide to do is:

• refuse to go because it is the nurse aide's right to stay in one place

• go to the new unit and tell the charge nurse that he is unfamiliar with the routine of that unit

• go home because the nurse aide is not needed on the regular unit

• go to the new unit and tell the charge nurse exactly what he will do

A nurse aide takes pictures at a birthday party for a client and puts the pictures on a social networking Web site. This is an example of:

• assault

• battery

• slander

• invasion of privacy

A nurse aide begins morning care and discovers a client who is lying in a bed soiled with feces. The feces are dry and are adhered to the client's skin. The client says that no one came to check on her all night. The BEST action for the nurse aide is to:

• clean the client and then inform the nurse in charge

• clean up the feces and put a diaper on the client

• bathe the client and make sure the client has the call light

• call the police and report this as a case of neglect

Most healthcare facilities are restricted from hiring someone who has been convicted of:

• jay walking

• abuse

• speeding

• littering

A nurse aide is NOT allowed to:

• measure intake and output

• take a medication history

• weigh a client

• take a blood pressure

The nurse asks the nurse aide to give a cup of pills to a client because the nurse does not have time to wait while the client takes them all. The nurse aide SHOULD:

• ask the nurse if the client can swallow all these pills

• refuse because this is out of the scope of practice for a nurse aide

• do it because the nurse is too busy

• tell the nurse that she has never done this before

A client has been hospitalized for an extended period of time and has been cared for by the same nurse aide for much of the time. Upon discharge, the client hands the nurse aide a card with a monetary gift. The nurse aide SHOULD:

• give the money to the charge nurse

• donate the money to a scholarship fund

• return the money

• thank the client for his generosity

The nurse has asked a new nurse aide to perform a task, but the new nurse aide has never completed this task on a client, only in the school skills laboratory. The new nurse aide SHOULD:

• refuse to do the task

• go and find a textbook, review the task, and then complete it

• go and do the task because it is the same as in the skills lab

• ask the nurse to watch him or her do this task