Passing the CNA Test
Prepare for both the clinical skills demonstration and the written scenario exam with confidence. Learn the critical safety checkpoints, scoring rules, and nursing-assistant protocols that test evaluators watch for. Master the exact habits that turn tricky exam stations into automatic passes.
Like Duolingo, but for Passing the CNA Test. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Nailing the Clinical Skills Exam and Tackling the Written Exam. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Passing the CNA Test
- On the CNA clinical exam, candidates must knock and pause before entering to respect resident rights
- Introducing yourself by name and title and checking the ID band confirms identity before care starts
- Explaining the planned procedure to the resident is mandatory before making physical contact or adjusting equipment
- CNA test evaluators grade privacy as a critical checkpoint before any resident clothing or linens are pulled back
- Drawing the curtain completely or closing the door provides privacy, regardless of whether the resident asks
- Exposing a resident before establishing privacy can result in an automatic point deduction or failed checkpoint
- CNA evaluators time friction for a full 20 seconds, checking that wrists, finger webs, and nails are scrubbed
- Turning off the sink faucet bare-handed re-contaminates clean hands and is scored as an error on the exam
- A fresh, dry paper towel must act as a barrier to turn off handles without touching clean skin to metal
- Every CNA skill concludes with the safety triad: signaling device, bed height, and final hand hygiene
- Leaving a call light out of reach or on a distant nightstand is a common failing defect on the exam
- Leaving the bed elevated after finishing care creates a major fall hazard that fails safety criteria
- Testing guidelines allow candidates to correct an omitted or incorrectly performed step at any point before signaling completion
- To earn credit for a correction, the candidate must clearly state to the evaluator what step was missed and demonstrate or simulate it properly
- Once the candidate says 'I am finished' or steps away to end the skill, self-corrections are no longer accepted
- Both the bed brakes and the wheelchair wheel locks must be firmly engaged before beginning any transfer
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Passing the CNA Test the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Before you start helping a resident, how do you make sure you have the right person?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Passing the CNA Test takes you
- 1
Nailing the Clinical Skills Exam
- The Universal Routine for Every Skill
- Executing Safe Transfers and Repositioning
- Recording Vitals and Measuring Intake
- 2
Tackling the Written Exam
- Resident Rights and Nursing Judgment Scenarios
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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