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2026 Basic Nursing Skills Practice Test for CNAs – CNA.plus
- Based on the official CNA exam guidelines
- Updated for June 2026
Your decision to become a Certified Nursing Assistant is a great one! The demand for CNAs is growing faster than most other jobs. You are on your way to an exciting and rewarding career! Your classroom lectures and clinical classes provide the knowledge and skills you need to be successful. The CNA is an important health care professional. Doctors and nurses rely on your observations and reports in order to provide the best possible care. Studying for your CNA Examination takes a lot of time. Each state can have different requirements for the actual certification process, including how many questions are on the written portion of the exam. Basic Nursing Skills will have more questions than any other category. You can expect about 22 questions on an exam with 70 questions. The practice questions here are similar to those you’ll find when you sit for your CNA examination. Some of the topics covered by these Basic Nursing Skills practice questions include:
- Proper isolation techniques
- Common disorders a CNA may encounter
- Caring for an incontinent patient
- Preventing pressure sores
- Diabetes complications
- Vital signs
- Perfect for nursing students and professionals preparing for the CNA exam
- Triple-checked for accuracy by nursing experts
Practice focus
What to focus on before you start
Recent learner results for this CNA practice set point to Nutrition, Hydration & Diets as the main risk area. The toughest tracked question in this set was missed by about 51% of learners.
Basic Nursing Skills
Primary exam area
Nutrition, Hydration & Diets
Most difficult topic
51%
Highest miss rate
Hardest topics in this set
- 51% Nutrition, Hydration & DietsTop miss rate among tracked questions.
- 47% Vital Signs & MeasurementsTop miss rate among tracked questions.
- 43% Observation, Reporting & DocumentationTop miss rate among tracked questions.
Recommended study path
Foundational nursing review
Founding Nursing Adviser, RN | MHS, Governors State University, IL
Test design and learning experience oversight
Co-Founder & CEO, Elegant E-Learning
What to expect on the official exam
50
questions
80
passing score
40
correct answers to pass
Questions are created and maintained by the CNA.plus content team following our multi-layer editorial process.
How we keep CNA practice questions accurate
Our CNA practice tests are built around the written knowledge exam and the skills topics nurse aide candidates are expected to know.
Written by Andrei Zakhareuski
Updated over a week ago
At CNA.plus, we review question wording, answer choices, and explanations against current nurse aide exam topics instead of treating old quiz banks as final.
Here's how we keep the practice tests useful and reliable.
Content creation and review process
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Exam alignment:
We map practice questions to core CNA exam areas, including basic nursing skills, infection control, residents' rights, safety, communication, and personal care. -
Clear explanations:
Each question is checked for plain language, answer-choice clarity, and an explanation that helps after a wrong answer. -
Foundational nursing review:
Winona Suzanne Ball, RN, MHS, helped establish the nursing review standards behind CNA Plus. New updates are maintained by the CNA.plus content team and checked before publication. -
Editorial QA:
Before a question goes live, we review the clinical point, the distractors, formatting, proofreading, and whether the item fits the test it appears in. -
User feedback:
Every question can be reported from the test screen. When a learner flags wording, an answer choice, or a rationale, we review it and update the item when needed. -
Ongoing updates:
We refresh examples, explanations, and provider references as CNA testing guidance changes.
That process is not flashy, but it matters: learners need practice questions that read like the exam and explanations that actually help after a missed answer.
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