Measurement and Reporting practice questions
Vital signs, intake and output, and how observations are measured and passed on.
Measurement and reporting is about the numbers an assistant collects and the way those numbers are recorded and passed on. The written exam asks about vital signs — temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure — as measurements with expected ranges, and about intake and output, which is measuring what a resident takes in and puts out over a shift. It also asks about weighing a resident and about what counts as a normal observation versus something to report. The pattern the exam looks for is consistent: an abnormal measurement is reported to the nurse, in the same words, without being changed or explained away. Documentation is a part of this domain, because a measurement that is not recorded is not there. The questions here are written for this site, with the full explanation free. The site's rule holds: the explanations say what the exam expects an assistant to know and report, not how to care for a person.
MEA-001
A nursing assistant measures a resident's temperature and it is higher than the range the exam treats as normal. What should the assistant do?
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