Physical Care Skills CNA Practice Test
30 questions covering Domain I: Physical Care Skills (64% of the NNAAP exam). Questions are randomly selected each time you take the test.
What This Domain Covers
Physical Care Skills is the broadest domain on the NNAAP exam. Questions test your ability to provide safe, competent hands-on care across a wide range of situations.
Activities of daily living: Bathing (bed bath, shower, tub), oral care, grooming, dressing and undressing, nail care, hair care, shaving, and feeding assistance including positioning for eating and managing special diets.
Infection control: Hand hygiene technique and timing, standard precautions, transmission-based precautions (contact, droplet, airborne), PPE selection and donning/doffing, isolation procedures, and disposal of contaminated materials.
Safety and emergency: Fall prevention, restraint alternatives, oxygen safety, fire safety, responding to seizures, choking and the Heimlich maneuver, and proper body mechanics to prevent injury.
Vital signs and technical procedures: Measuring temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation. Urinary catheter care, ostomy care, specimen collection, and application of non-sterile dressings.
Data collection: Height, weight, intake and output measurement, skin assessment, and reporting changes in a resident’s condition.
Restorative care: Range of motion exercises, positioning and repositioning, transfer techniques, ambulation assistance, use of assistive devices, and pressure injury prevention.