PSW FINAL COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE 2026
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
⩥ Professionalism. Answer: an approach to work that demonstrates
respect for others, commitment, competence, and appropriate
behaviours.
⩥ Professional Boundaries. Answer: Appropriate limitations on
behaviour, meant to protect the vulnerable client from the caregiver who
has access to private knowledge about him or her.
⩥ Regulation of a PSW. Answer: The PSW is an unregulated profession.
For an unregulated care provider there are clearly identified services we
provide under the supervision of the client, family member, regulated
health care provider or employer. There is no legislation to regulate
PSW's or an organization of professional college that governs the role.
There is no official code of ethics but they must adhere to the codes of
behaviour from their employer.
⩥ Regulated Health Professions Act. Answer: In Ontario, regulated
health professions are governed under the ______________________,
1991 (RHPA) and health profession Acts (i.e., Medicine Act, 1991). This
legislative framework establishes health regulatory colleges, which
regulate the professions in the public interest. i.e. the college of nurses.
,⩥ occupational therapist. Answer: Focuses on rehabilitation; teaches
clients skills needed to perform ADLs; designs adaptive equipment for
ADLs
⩥ physical therapist. Answer: Focuses on rehabilitation; assist clients
with musculo-skeletal impairments; focuses on restoring function and
preventing disability from illness or injury
⩥ Registered Nurse. Answer: assesses, makes nursing diagnoses, plans,
implements, and evaluates nursing care. Tends to clients with unstable
health conditions; provides direct client care, administers medications,
supervises support workers
⩥ licenced practical nurse. Answer: a health care provider licensed and
regulated by the province or territory to carry out nursing techniques and
provide client care. Known as a ________ in Ontario.
⩥ Assault. Answer: identified in Canada's Criminal Code and can be
defined as intentionally attempting or threatening to touch a client's body
without the client's consent, causing the client to fear bodily harm.
⩥ Battery. Answer: (part of tort law) is the actual intentional touching of
a client's body without the client's consent.
,⩥ Slander. Answer: making harmful false statements orally.
⩥ negligence. Answer: when a person fails to act in a careful or
competent manner and thereby harms the client or damages property. It
is an unintentional wrong, but the person failed to do what a reasonable
or careful person would have done or not done.
⩥ false imprisonment. Answer: the unlawful restraint or restrictions on a
person's freedom of movement. (preventing someone from leaving a
facility or the unnecessary use of restraints.)
⩥ harassment. Answer: troubling, tormenting, offending, or worrying a
person through one's behaviour or comments.
⩥ autonomy. Answer: have the freedom and choice to make decisions
that affect one's life. Also known as self-determination.
⩥ dependence. Answer: The state of relying on others for support; being
unable to manage without help.
⩥ interdependence. Answer: the state of relying on one another
⩥ independence. Answer: the state of not relying on others for control or
authority
, ⩥ culture. Answer: the characteristics of a group of people, including
language, values, beliefs, customs, habits, ways of life, rules for
behaviour, music and tradition
⩥ objective data. Answer: The data you gather while using your senses.
Also called signs.
⩥ subjective data. Answer: (symptoms) information reported by a client
but not directly observed by the support worker. When reporting
__________, do not interpret the client's words, quote the client directly.
Always be alert to changes in the client's condition or behaviour
⩥ Standard Practices. Answer: guidelines to prevent the spread of
infection from blood, bodily fluids, secretions, excretions, non-intact
skin, and mucous membranes. Also called Routine Practices or Standard
Precautions
⩥ Friction. Answer: the resistance the skin encounters when it rubs
against another surface, such as clothing, bedding or another fold of
skin.
⩥ Shearing. Answer: the tearing of skin tissues caused when the skin
sticks to a surface (usually the bed or chair) and deeper tissues move
downward, exerting pressure on the skin. _______ can happen when a
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
⩥ Professionalism. Answer: an approach to work that demonstrates
respect for others, commitment, competence, and appropriate
behaviours.
⩥ Professional Boundaries. Answer: Appropriate limitations on
behaviour, meant to protect the vulnerable client from the caregiver who
has access to private knowledge about him or her.
⩥ Regulation of a PSW. Answer: The PSW is an unregulated profession.
For an unregulated care provider there are clearly identified services we
provide under the supervision of the client, family member, regulated
health care provider or employer. There is no legislation to regulate
PSW's or an organization of professional college that governs the role.
There is no official code of ethics but they must adhere to the codes of
behaviour from their employer.
⩥ Regulated Health Professions Act. Answer: In Ontario, regulated
health professions are governed under the ______________________,
1991 (RHPA) and health profession Acts (i.e., Medicine Act, 1991). This
legislative framework establishes health regulatory colleges, which
regulate the professions in the public interest. i.e. the college of nurses.
,⩥ occupational therapist. Answer: Focuses on rehabilitation; teaches
clients skills needed to perform ADLs; designs adaptive equipment for
ADLs
⩥ physical therapist. Answer: Focuses on rehabilitation; assist clients
with musculo-skeletal impairments; focuses on restoring function and
preventing disability from illness or injury
⩥ Registered Nurse. Answer: assesses, makes nursing diagnoses, plans,
implements, and evaluates nursing care. Tends to clients with unstable
health conditions; provides direct client care, administers medications,
supervises support workers
⩥ licenced practical nurse. Answer: a health care provider licensed and
regulated by the province or territory to carry out nursing techniques and
provide client care. Known as a ________ in Ontario.
⩥ Assault. Answer: identified in Canada's Criminal Code and can be
defined as intentionally attempting or threatening to touch a client's body
without the client's consent, causing the client to fear bodily harm.
⩥ Battery. Answer: (part of tort law) is the actual intentional touching of
a client's body without the client's consent.
,⩥ Slander. Answer: making harmful false statements orally.
⩥ negligence. Answer: when a person fails to act in a careful or
competent manner and thereby harms the client or damages property. It
is an unintentional wrong, but the person failed to do what a reasonable
or careful person would have done or not done.
⩥ false imprisonment. Answer: the unlawful restraint or restrictions on a
person's freedom of movement. (preventing someone from leaving a
facility or the unnecessary use of restraints.)
⩥ harassment. Answer: troubling, tormenting, offending, or worrying a
person through one's behaviour or comments.
⩥ autonomy. Answer: have the freedom and choice to make decisions
that affect one's life. Also known as self-determination.
⩥ dependence. Answer: The state of relying on others for support; being
unable to manage without help.
⩥ interdependence. Answer: the state of relying on one another
⩥ independence. Answer: the state of not relying on others for control or
authority
, ⩥ culture. Answer: the characteristics of a group of people, including
language, values, beliefs, customs, habits, ways of life, rules for
behaviour, music and tradition
⩥ objective data. Answer: The data you gather while using your senses.
Also called signs.
⩥ subjective data. Answer: (symptoms) information reported by a client
but not directly observed by the support worker. When reporting
__________, do not interpret the client's words, quote the client directly.
Always be alert to changes in the client's condition or behaviour
⩥ Standard Practices. Answer: guidelines to prevent the spread of
infection from blood, bodily fluids, secretions, excretions, non-intact
skin, and mucous membranes. Also called Routine Practices or Standard
Precautions
⩥ Friction. Answer: the resistance the skin encounters when it rubs
against another surface, such as clothing, bedding or another fold of
skin.
⩥ Shearing. Answer: the tearing of skin tissues caused when the skin
sticks to a surface (usually the bed or chair) and deeper tissues move
downward, exerting pressure on the skin. _______ can happen when a
