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1. A nurse aide MUST wear gloves when:

Giving a back rub

Doing range of motion

Feeding a client

Doing peri-care

2. When getting ready to dress a client, the nurse aide SHOULD:

Choose clothes that the nurse aide personally likes

Use the clothes the client wore the day before

Get the first clothes the nurse aide can reach in the closet

Give the client a choice of what to wear

3. If the nurse aide discovers fire in a client’s room, the FIRST thing do is:

Remove the client

Open a window

Call the nurse in charge

Try to put out the fire

4. Which of the following stages of dying is usually the final stage?

Bargaining

Acceptance

Anger

Depression

5. If a client says, “God is punishing me” or “Why me?”, how should the nurse aide respond?

Reply, “God doesn’t punish people.”

Listen quietly

Ignore the client

Make jokes

6. Which of the following is a correct measurement of urinary output?

40 oz

1 quart

2 cups

300 cc

7. If a client is sitting in a chair in his room masturbating, the nurse aide SHOULD:

Laugh and tell the client to go in the bathroom

Tell the client to stop

Report the incident to the other nurse aides

Leave the client alone and provide privacy

8. To convert four ounces of juice to milliliters (ml), the nurse aide should multiply:

4 x 30 ml

4 x 15 ml

4 x 10 ml

4 x 5 ml

9. The LAST sense a dying client will lose is:

Sight

Taste

Hearing

Smell

10. The normal aging process is BEST defined as the time when:

Normal body functions and senses decline

Alzheimer’s disease begins

people become dependent and childlike

People are over sixty-five years of age

11. What is the process of restoring a disabled client to the highest level of functioning possible?

Rehabilitation

Retention

Responsibility

Reincarnation

12. Clean bed linen placed in a client’s room but NOT used should be:

Taken to the nurse in charge

Returned to the linen closet

Used for a client in the next room

Put in the dirty linen container

13. Proper use of a waist restraint requires that the nurse aide:

Tie restraints to the siderail

Release the restraint every four hours

Watch for skin irritation

Apply the restraint tightly so the client cannot move

14. When transferring a client, MOST of the client’s weight should be supported by the nurse aide’s:

Legs

Wrists

Back

Shoulders

15. How many tips does a quad-cane base have?

16. The nurse aide enters a client’s room, and the client states that he has pain. What should the nurse aide do?

Tell the client that the pain will go away soon

Tell the client to get out of bed for awhile

Ignore the client’s statement

Report it to the nurse in charge

17. A new client refuses to wear a clothing protector at lunch. The nurse aide SHOULD:

Report this to the nurse in charge

Put the clothing protector on the client

Respect the client’s wishes

Tell the client that he must wear it

18. When making an occupied bed, the nurse aide SHOULD:

Lower both side rails before changing the sheets

Help the client to sit in a chair while the bed is being made

Raise side rail on unattended side

Put the dirty sheets on the floor

19. To be sure that a client’s weight is measured accurately, the client should be weighed:

By a different nurse aide

After a meal

At the same time of day

After a good night’s sleep

20. Which of the following is the meaning of PRN?

Immediately

When necessary

When advice

Now

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