Certified Nursing Assistant Exam Prep - Question List

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86. What is the duodenum responsible for?
  1. Breaking down food in the small intestines
  2. Cleans the blood
  3. Creates bile
  4. Absorbs oxygen
87. During the end-of-shift report, the nurse informed the medical assistant that a client of Jewish faith requested for a strict kosher diet, and arrangements have been made in the dietary department. At lunchtime, which of the following meal trays would be appropriate for the medical assistant to serve said client?
  1. Pork roast, rice, vegetables, mixed fruit, milk
  2. Crab salad on a croissant, vegetables with dip, potato salad, milk
  3. Sweet and sour chicken with rice and vegetables, mixed fruit, juice
  4. Fettuccini Alfredo with shrimp and vegetables, salad, mixed fruit, iced tea
88.

When taking radial pulse, a medical assistant should do all of the following except:

  1. Point the patient's palms downward
  2. Use the thumb to palpate the artery
  3. Use two to three fingertips to palpate the pulse at the inner wrist
  4. Assess the pulse rate, rhythm, volume, and bilateral equality
89.

The stages of grieving identified by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross are:

  1. Numbness, anger, resolution, and reorganization
  2. Denial, anger, identification, depression, and acceptance
  3. Anger, loneliness, depression, and resolution
  4. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
90. Situation: Judy Montgomery, an 85-year-old client with Alzheimer's disease, developed a serious complication of pneumonia and is now attached to a respirator.

Knowing that for a comatose client, hearing is the last sense to be lost. As Judy's medical assistant all through her stay in the hospice, what should you do?
  1. Tell her family that probably she can't hear them.
  2. Talk loudly so that Judy can hear you.
  3. Tell her family who are in the room not to talk.
  4. Speak softly then hold her hands gently.

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