Introduction to health care as a cna

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CNA (certified nursing assistant)

Wound Care As a CNA, you are caring for a patient who has had surgery and now has an order for elastic stockings. The patient was alert and oriented before surgery but is a little confused at this time. She keeps rolling her stockings down and twisting them. Is this an issue?

Pressure Injuries As a CNA, you are assisting in the care of a hospice patient. While giving the patient a bath you note an area on the sacrum that is reddened. It is about the size of a quarter and you are sure it was not there yesterday. What are the implications and what do you do?

Rehabilitation Needs As a CNA, you are assisting a patient with his range-of-motion exercises; he says he does not feel like doing them today and asks you to finish the exercises for him. What is your response?

As a CNA, you are working at a nursing center and performing perineal care. You observe moderately sized red discoloration located on your resident's inner thigh. When will you report this finding? To whom will you report this? How will you describe the discolored areas?

As a CNA, you are caring for a person who is usually very social, participates in every activity, and appears happy, but you have noticed over the last couple of days she is hardly participating in any activities, she did not go to church service, which she never misses, and she is not talking to her friends. What would you do?

Introduction to Health Care As a CNA, you are working in a long-term care center as a CNA and a surveyor asks you a question. You are unsure of the answer. You worry your response may cause your facility to get in trouble or you could get in trouble for answering incorrectly. How will you respond?

The Person's Rights You (a CNA) are assisting a person with range-of-motion (ROM) exercises. The person does not want to participate and tells you to leave the room. Does the person have the right to refuse? What will you do? Does the nursing center have to take action?

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