In the following questions, you will find examples of actual questions from real Certified Nursing Assistant Practice tests. Use these as a guideline and study work for your upcoming Certified Nursing Assistant Practice Test.
Question 1:
When a Certified Nursing Assistant comes in contact with a patient who is totally deaf, he/she should choose which method of communication?
a. Speak overly articulately so they can read lips
b. avoid eye contact and speak to them like anyone else
c. write information down.
d. wish that you had taken a sign language course.
Question 2:
What is the jo of an Ombudsman?
a. hospital book keeping
b. prepare hygiene classes of nurses.
c. receptionist at a nursing home
d. acts as a liaison between patient and nursing home to protect clients rights.
Question 3:
Where should a temperature be taken that is considered MOST accurate.
a. groin
b. anal
c. oral
d. axillary
Question 4:
What is a replacement body part referred to as?
a. prostate
b. prosthesis
c. propriety
d. pronation
Question 5:
All patients have the right to…
a. see other patients medical information
b. slap a nurse they don’t like
c. use the telephone
d. wander around the facility
Question 6:
Pressure sores can be identified by what symptom?
a. discoloration
b. swelling
c. colored discharge
d. numbness
Question 7:
Urinary output is measured in what unit?
a. meters
b. quarts
c. ounces
d. cc
Question 8:
You patient requires denture care. You notice their upper plate is cracked. What should you do?
a. report the damage to the patients family
b. report the damage to the nurse in charge
c. report the damage to the dentist
d. don’t do anything. the patient is not seeing you for denture care services.
Question 9:
The last sense a patient looses when dying is…?
a. touch
b. hearing
c. taste
d. sight
Question 10:
When turning a male client over, to avoid pulling out a catheter, the catheter tube must be taped to…?
a. the mattress
b. inner thigh
c. the ankle
d. the abdomen
We hope that this Certified Nurses Assistant Practice Test will help in you in your endeavor to become a Certified Nursing Assistant!

