Kansas CNA study materials
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Kansas CNA study plan

Kansas CNA · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Safety and Emergency Response & Personal Care Skills

  • Identify five fall-risk factors in a resident's room and state one correction for each, without notes

  • Demonstrate the sequence for assisting a resident to ambulate with a gait belt, narrating each safety check aloud

  • List the steps of a bed bath and perineal care in correct order, including privacy and draping measures

  • Recite the priority actions for choking, fire, and seizure emergencies in the correct order

  • Perform hand-and-body mechanics for safe repositioning and transfer of a dependent resident

Your checkpoint

A handwritten one-page emergency action card covering choking, fire, seizure, and fall response, self-quizzed to 100% accuracy

Week 2

Basic Nursing Skills and Observation & Care of Residents with Cognitive Impairment

  • Measure and record temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure accurately on a practice partner, within accepted ranges

  • Describe how to obtain a clean-catch urine specimen and a stool specimen, including labeling and transport steps

  • Explain three behavior triggers common in dementia and match each to a redirection technique

  • Demonstrate a validation-based response to a resident insisting on going home

  • Distinguish normal age-related change from a finding that must be reported immediately

Your checkpoint

A completed vital-signs practice log with 10 full sets of measurements plus a written report-versus-record decision list

Week 3

Infection Control and Standard Precautions & Personal Care Skills

  • Sequence the full chain of hand hygiene and demonstrate it at five scripted moments of resident contact

  • Select the correct personal protective equipment for six given care scenarios and justify each choice

  • Explain standard precautions versus transmission-based precautions for contact, droplet, and airborne cases

  • Perform a simulated catheter care and a simulated dressing change without breaking sterile technique

  • Identify three ways to protect resident dignity while performing personal care

Your checkpoint

A scored self-assessment of 10 timed hand-hygiene demonstrations with a written PPE decision table for all six scenarios

Week 4

Resident Rights and Promotion of Independence & Communication and Interpersonal Skills

  • State each of the federally protected resident rights and give a caregiving example of honoring it

  • Explain how to report a suspected rights violation through the correct chain, including ombudsman referral

  • Demonstrate three communication accommodations: hearing loss, aphasia, and a resident who speaks limited English

  • Rewrite five patronizing phrases into person-first, respectful alternatives

  • Describe how to support a resident's right to refuse care while keeping the nurse informed

Your checkpoint

A resident-rights scenario packet: five short scenarios, each with the right at stake and the correct CNA action

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 80% on a 25-item self-test covering Domains 2, 4, 5, and 8, and perform vitals plus one transfer skill correctly from memory

Week 4: Score at least 85% on a 40-item mixed self-test across Domains 1 through 6, and pass a hand-hygiene check with zero missed steps

Week 6: Complete a timed 60-item practice exam at 80% or better with every missed item corrected and logged

Week 8: Complete two full-length practice exams at 85% or better and demonstrate all core skills once each without prompting