HOSA Clinical Nursing Competition Study
Guide – Complete Skills Review 2026
What system has greatly increased the number and types of health care settings? - ANSWER ✔✨---
Health care system
What health care workers help individuals and aggregates (groups) to improve health of the entire
community? - ANSWER ✔✨---Community health nurses
What is the main difference between home health care nursing and public health care nursing? -
ANSWER ✔✨---Direct care to patients
What major health care involves teaching patients and families to care for themselves so as to promote
independent functioning? - ANSWER ✔✨---Home health care
What is a major source of home health care funding? - ANSWER ✔✨---Medicare
For what do these 4 conditions have to be met for?
1. the physician has determined the need for home care
2. the patient needs intermitted skilled nursing care or physical or speech-language therapy or
continued occupational therapy
,3. the patient is homebound
4. the agency providing the care is Medicare certified - ANSWER ✔✨---Medicare
What are the high-technology interventions (the provisions of intravenous therapy and ventilator),
hospice services, pediatric care, and mental health care for? - ANSWER ✔✨---Specialty home care
services
What is the process of restoring an individual to the best possible health and functioning following a
physical or mental impairment and the prevention of further disability? - ANSWER ✔✨---
Rehabilitation
Caring for what type of patient requires the coordinated services of a large number of health care
professionals to help patients stay healthy and prevent complications or injuries? - ANSWER ✔✨---
Disabled
As an effective member of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team, the __________ is a care planner,
teacher, caregiver, counselor, coordinator, and advocate - ANSWER ✔✨---Nurse
________ ________ workers must consider the way a disabled individual functions within the family and
the patient and family should be involved from the outset in determining the plan of care -
ANSWER ✔✨---Health care
___________ in activities of daily living is the best indicator of who will need nursing home placement -
ANSWER ✔✨---Dependence
What residential care exists in these 4 levels:
1. domiciliary care
2. sheltered housing
3. intermediate care
4. skilled care - ANSWER ✔✨---Modern long-term
Care delivered in _____________ residential facility is based on 3 principles:
, 1. promotion of independence
2. maintenance of function
3. maintenance of autonomy (freedom from external authority to make decisions about one's health
and health care) - ANSWER ✔✨---Long-term care
What is the cornerstone of the healing process? - ANSWER ✔✨---Nutrition
To support and maintain life for fight disease, the body must be supplied with the proper __________ -
ANSWER ✔✨---Nutrients
What process involves enzymes helping break down food particles to their simplest form so that the
nutrients can be absorbed by the body? - ANSWER ✔✨---Digestive
What body system regulates neural control and the secretion of hormones? - ANSWER ✔✨---
Gastrointestinal
Parasympathetic nerves stimulate what? - ANSWER ✔✨---Digestive activity
What major organ is normally emptied in 1-4 hours, depending on the amount and kinds of food eaten?
- ANSWER ✔✨---Stomach
The primary organ of absorption is the _______ _________ - ANSWER ✔✨---Small intestine
Fluids, vitamins, and minerals are absorbed through the intestinal ___________ - ANSWER ✔✨---
Mucosa
The body makes use the energy received through the food that is eaten, and the _________ portion of
__________ expenditure occurs during rest to carry out the mechanical activities needed to sustain life
processes - ANSWER ✔✨---Largest/energy
Guide – Complete Skills Review 2026
What system has greatly increased the number and types of health care settings? - ANSWER ✔✨---
Health care system
What health care workers help individuals and aggregates (groups) to improve health of the entire
community? - ANSWER ✔✨---Community health nurses
What is the main difference between home health care nursing and public health care nursing? -
ANSWER ✔✨---Direct care to patients
What major health care involves teaching patients and families to care for themselves so as to promote
independent functioning? - ANSWER ✔✨---Home health care
What is a major source of home health care funding? - ANSWER ✔✨---Medicare
For what do these 4 conditions have to be met for?
1. the physician has determined the need for home care
2. the patient needs intermitted skilled nursing care or physical or speech-language therapy or
continued occupational therapy
,3. the patient is homebound
4. the agency providing the care is Medicare certified - ANSWER ✔✨---Medicare
What are the high-technology interventions (the provisions of intravenous therapy and ventilator),
hospice services, pediatric care, and mental health care for? - ANSWER ✔✨---Specialty home care
services
What is the process of restoring an individual to the best possible health and functioning following a
physical or mental impairment and the prevention of further disability? - ANSWER ✔✨---
Rehabilitation
Caring for what type of patient requires the coordinated services of a large number of health care
professionals to help patients stay healthy and prevent complications or injuries? - ANSWER ✔✨---
Disabled
As an effective member of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team, the __________ is a care planner,
teacher, caregiver, counselor, coordinator, and advocate - ANSWER ✔✨---Nurse
________ ________ workers must consider the way a disabled individual functions within the family and
the patient and family should be involved from the outset in determining the plan of care -
ANSWER ✔✨---Health care
___________ in activities of daily living is the best indicator of who will need nursing home placement -
ANSWER ✔✨---Dependence
What residential care exists in these 4 levels:
1. domiciliary care
2. sheltered housing
3. intermediate care
4. skilled care - ANSWER ✔✨---Modern long-term
Care delivered in _____________ residential facility is based on 3 principles:
, 1. promotion of independence
2. maintenance of function
3. maintenance of autonomy (freedom from external authority to make decisions about one's health
and health care) - ANSWER ✔✨---Long-term care
What is the cornerstone of the healing process? - ANSWER ✔✨---Nutrition
To support and maintain life for fight disease, the body must be supplied with the proper __________ -
ANSWER ✔✨---Nutrients
What process involves enzymes helping break down food particles to their simplest form so that the
nutrients can be absorbed by the body? - ANSWER ✔✨---Digestive
What body system regulates neural control and the secretion of hormones? - ANSWER ✔✨---
Gastrointestinal
Parasympathetic nerves stimulate what? - ANSWER ✔✨---Digestive activity
What major organ is normally emptied in 1-4 hours, depending on the amount and kinds of food eaten?
- ANSWER ✔✨---Stomach
The primary organ of absorption is the _______ _________ - ANSWER ✔✨---Small intestine
Fluids, vitamins, and minerals are absorbed through the intestinal ___________ - ANSWER ✔✨---
Mucosa
The body makes use the energy received through the food that is eaten, and the _________ portion of
__________ expenditure occurs during rest to carry out the mechanical activities needed to sustain life
processes - ANSWER ✔✨---Largest/energy
