CNA SKILLS TEST QUESTIONS

CNA SKILLS TEST / QUESTIONS &

EXPERTLY VERIFIED ANSWERS,

2025 / 2026.

Quiz____?Beginning Procedure Actions - Answer✓✓ 1.*Wash hands thoroughly prior to entering room or when in room

• Assemble needed equipment

3.Go to resident's room, knock and pause before entering.

• *Introduce self by name and title
• *Identify the resident by facility policies and address them by name.
• Ask visitors to leave the room and inform them where they may wait.

7.*Provide privacy throughout procedure; pull curtains, shut door, properly cover patient as needed.

8.*Explain procedure to resident; speak clearly, slowly and directly to resident, maintaining face to face contact whenever possible.

• Answer resident's questions about the procedure.
• Allow resident to assist as much as possible.
• Raise the bed to a comfortable working height.

Quiz____?Ending Procedure Actions - Answer✓✓ 1.*Position resident comfortably.

2.*Return bed to lowest position.

3.*Leave signal cord, telephone and water within reach.Page 1 of 19 1 / 3

4.*Perform a general safety check.

• Open curtain.
• Care for equipment following policy.

7.*Wash hands.

• Let visitors know they may return.

9.*Report completion of task and observation of any abnormalities and record actions and observations.Quiz____?

Vital Signs: Blood Pressure -

Answer✓✓ 1.Clean ear pieces and diaphragm with antiseptic wipe.

• Position residents arm resting on firm surface with palm up.

3.Wrap cuff around arm with bladder over artery 1" above antecubital space-cuff even and snug.

• Place ear pieces in ears and place diaphragm over artery.
• Inflate cuff to no more than 180mm/Hg or may use pulse obliteration

method, candidate choice

• Deflate cuff, note systolic reading, and note point of diastolic reading.
• Accurate reading within 4mm/Hg window on both systolic and diastolic

8.*Accurately record blood pressure.Quiz____?

Vital Signs: Temperature (Tympanic) -

Answer✓✓

• Place tympanic thermometer cover on.
• Ask person to turn head so ear is in front of you, put new probe cover

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• Pull back on the ear (gentle, firm) to straighten the ear canal and insert

probe gently into ear canal directed toward nose.

• Start the thermometer.
• Wait until you hear a beep or flashing light and remove.

6.*Read the temperature and record accurately.Quiz____?

Vital Signs: Temperature (Oral/Axillary) -

Answer✓✓

• *Ask the person if they have eaten or consumed a beverage, cold or hot

or smoked within the last 15 minutes.

• Place a sheath on the probe.
• Correct placement for obtaining oral reading or axillary reading.
• If necessary, hold the probe in place for oral
• Leave the probe in place until the instrument beeps.
• Remove the probe sheath from the probe and dispose of properly.
• Replace the probe.

8.*Red the temperature and record accurately.Quiz____?

Vital Signs: Pulse (Radial/Apical) -

Answer✓✓

• Locate pulse at the correct site.
• Count pulse for 30 seconds and double or count for 1 full minute.

Accuracy within + or -4 beats per minute.

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