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A resident’s sister gives her favorite nursing assistant a thank you note with a gift card inside it.  She tells the nursing assistant that this is a small way of letting him know how much she appreciates his work.  The NA does not want to offend the family, and it happens to be a gift card to his favorite restaurant, so he decides to keep it.  Which of the following BEST describes how the nursing assistant should have responded?

Which of the following is a normal age-related change for the body?

A nursing assistant notices that a resident seems depressed.  While giving her a bed bath, the resident confides that another nursing assistant told her how “gross” the stump looks.  This is an example of

A resident has had a total hip replacement, and the nursing assistant is helping to position the resident.  Which of the following is a guideline that the NA should follow?

A nursing assistant who works periodically when full-time staff members are on vacation helps care for residents who have Alzheimer’s disease.  On different occasions she noticed that a resident’s bed smells of urine and that her hair is dirty and matted.  This could be a sign of

A nursing assistant is in the middle of her shift and is behind schedule.  She is worried that she will not finish all of the assigned tasks, which include measuring each resident’s vital signs, by the end of her shift.  Which of the following is the BEST choice that she can make in this situation?

When should bed sheets can be changed?

A new nursing assistant is working his first day at his new job.  He has been asked to insert a resident’s feeding tube.  Which of the following would be his BEST response?

A resident suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD).  Which of the following can the nursing assistant expect as a result of this?

For every force applied by an object A to object B, there is an equal but opposite force exerted by object B to object A is a statement of Newton’s law of