CNA VOCAB HEADMASTER LIST EXAM QUESTIONS

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CNA VOCAB HEADMASTER LIST EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: communicable disease

Answer:

a disease caused by pathogens that spread easily; a contagious disease

Question 2: blood pressure

Answer:

systolic 90mmHg-120mmHg diastolic 60mmHg-80mmHg systolic/diastolic defintion: the amount of force exerted against the walls of an artery by the blood

Question 3: aphasia

Answer:

the total or partial loss of the ability to use or understand language

Question 4: arteries

Answer:

carry oxygenated blood away from the heart

Question 5: admitting resident

Answer:

beginning process of a patient; admission of a resident into a long term care facility

Question 6: catheter

Answer:

A tube used to drain or inject fluid through a body opening

Question 7: Confidentiality

Answer:

trusting others with personal and private information

Question 8: abductor wedge

Answer:

designed to separate the legs of a patient. It is often used after hip surgery to prevent the new hip from "popping out".

Question 9: conflict resolution

Answer:

step one- define the problem step two- collect information about the problem step three- identify possible solutions step four- select the best solution step five- carry out the solution step six- evaluate the results

Question 10: bedrest

Answer:

confinement to bed continuously (as in the case of some sick or injured persons)

Question 11: Anti-embolic stockings

Answer:

exert pressure on veins promoting venous blood return; are used to help prevent blood clots in the legs

Question 12: colostomy

Answer:

a surgically created opening between the colon and abdominal wall

Question 13: behavior

Answer:

The way an organism reacts to changes in its internal condition or external environment.

Question 14: agitation

Answer:

a state of anxiety or nervous excitement

Question 15: abduction

Answer:

moving a body part away from the midline of the body

Question 16: Alzhemier's disease

Answer:

An age-related dementia characterized by confusion, memory loss, and other symptoms. this affects memory, thinking, reasoning, judgment, langauge, behavior, mood and personality

Question 17: culture

Answer:

the characteristics of a group of people-language, values, beliefs, habits, likes, dislikes, customs-passed form one generation to the next

Question 18: contamination

Answer:

the process of becoming unclean

Question 19: confused resident

Answer:

someone in a mental state of being disoriented to person, time, place, situation or identity

Question 20: choking

Answer:

Food or foreign object blocks the airway or throat not allowing air to pass thorugh the airway into the lungs, thus resulting in the body not recieving enough oxygen

Question 21: amputee

Answer:

someone who has had a limb removed by amputation

Question 22: colostomy care

Answer:

the skin is washed and dried then a skin barrier is applied around the stoma. the skin barrier is part of the pouch or a seperate device

Question 23: circulation

Answer:

Movement of blood through the body

Question 24: aging process

Answer:

the natural occurrences in the body that produce the changes associated with growing old

Question 25: chronic illness

Answer:

an ongoing illness, slow or gradual in onset; it has no known cure; it can be cocntrolled and complications prevented with proper treatment

Question 26: affected side

Answer:

a weakened side from a stroke or injury; also called the "weaker" or "involved" side.

Question 27: ADL

Answer:

activities of daily living