Basic Nursing Skills practice questions
The everyday care skills and observations an assistant is expected to know and to report.
Basic nursing skills are the everyday care tasks that appear on the written exam: measuring vital signs, observing the resident, range of motion, skin care, and using assistive devices. The exam asks about the principles behind these tasks and about what the assistant observes and reports to the nurse, not about carrying out a procedure here. A vital sign, for example, is a measurement; the exam asks what a normal range is taken to be for the purposes of the test and what to do with an abnormal reading, which is to report it. An observation is something the assistant notices about the resident and passes on, in the same words, to the nurse. The questions in this domain test the concepts most often examined, each written for this site, with the full explanation free. The rule of the site applies throughout: nothing here is to be performed on a real person, and emergency situations follow the facility's protocol and the direction of the nurse in charge.
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A resident's temperature is measured and is higher than the range the exam treats as normal. What should the nursing assistant do?
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Nothing on this site is to be performed on a real person on the basis of this site. This is exam preparation, not clinical training. Emergency situations follow the facility's protocol and the direction of the nurse in charge.