Personal Care practice questions
The activities of daily living and how the exam asks about helping a resident with them.
Personal care covers the activities of daily living — the everyday tasks a person does for themselves, which a nursing assistant helps with when a resident cannot. That includes bathing, dressing, grooming, oral care, toileting, feeding and positioning. The written exam asks about these tasks as care work: what the assistant does, in what order, and what the resident is expected to be able to do for themselves. It does not ask you to recite a procedure as if you were performing it on a real person here. It asks what the exam expects an assistant to know and to report. The questions in this domain test the concepts most often examined, each written for this site, with the full explanation free. A resident who can do part of a task is encouraged to do what they can — independence is part of dignity and part of what the exam looks for. The plain-English rule matters here: the stem is always the exact wording of the question, with no idiom and no metaphor.
PC-001
A resident can feed themselves but needs help cutting food. What should the nursing assistant do?
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The 23 questions above cover the concepts this topic is organised around. Answer each one, read the full explanation, and note what you missed. The result groups nothing into a score — it counts what you got right by topic, which is all an uncalibrated question bank can truthfully tell anyone.
Where these eight topics come from. They are this site's own organisation of the material, chosen so that related questions sit together. They are not the official content areas of any state's written exam, and no mapping between the two is claimed here — that mapping has not been verified against the published candidate handbooks, so it is not stated. Your state's handbook is the authority on how its exam is divided and weighted; how to find yours is set out separately.
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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.