HCA100 LATEST EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔the basic rules about wages, work hours, and vacation days are covered in: -
✔✔Employment standards legislation
✔✔ Universality means - ✔✔all permanent residents are entitled to receive insured
health care
✔✔What are the principles of Medicare? - ✔✔Comprehensiveness, Universality,
Portability, Accessibility, Public Administration
✔✔Primary Health Care Delivery is: - ✔✔1st point of contact with Health Care System
(fever, bad cough, flu)
✔✔Primary Health Care Delivery focuses on - ✔✔Disease prevention and health
promotion
✔✔Secondary Health Care Delivery is / focuses on: - ✔✔2nd point of contact with HCS/
Assessment, diagnosis, treatment
✔✔Tertiary Health Care Delivery means: - ✔✔More sick, highly specialized care (ICU)
✔✔Comprehensiveness means - ✔✔the insurance plan must pay for all medical
services (eg. MSP)
✔✔Portability means - ✔✔You can keep your health care coverage if you move
provinces, become unemployed, move jobs, or travel within Canada or abroad.
✔✔Accessibility means - ✔✔everyone receives the same service (doesnt matter age,
gender, income, etc.)
✔✔Public Administration means - ✔✔the insurance plan must be run by a public
organization on a nonprofit basis (VCH, Fraser Health, etc.)
✔✔A major focus of home care is to - ✔✔enable clients to remain in their own home
✔✔Examples of health promotion strategies - ✔✔exercise, good diet, regular doctor
visits
✔✔Canada's health care system has seen a shift in focus from _________ to
_________ - ✔✔Hospitals to Home care
, ✔✔Difference between health promotion and disease prevention - ✔✔Health promotion
is a strategy that improves and maintain health and independence: Disease prevention
is strategies that prevent the occurrence of disease and injury
✔✔Who provides the most work in home care services - ✔✔support workers
✔✔home care is a _________ based service - ✔✔community
✔✔Resident means they are in : - ✔✔Long term care
✔✔Client means they are in: - ✔✔Home support
✔✔Patient means they are in: - ✔✔Hospital
✔✔Acute care means - ✔✔In hospital > 3 months
✔✔Subacute care means - ✔✔Rehabilitation for people post-surgery / medically stable
after a serious illness or health challenge
✔✔Another name for subacute care - ✔✔Convalescent care / complex continuing care
✔✔Long-term care means - ✔✔fully dependent residents, 24/7 care, with chronic
illnesses
✔✔Respite care means - ✔✔temporary care of someone who requires high level
support, offers relief of their current caregiver
✔✔Day program - ✔✔not overnight (eg. blood or iron transfusions, dyalisis, recreational
activities, rehab
✔✔Rehabilitation services - ✔✔programs designed to restore or improve client's
independence and functional abilities
✔✔Palliative care - ✔✔not curable disease, pain management, usually > 1 year, goal is
to improve client's quality of life
✔✔End-of-life care - ✔✔<2 weeks, physical, emotional, social and spiritual care for
client and family
✔✔Hospice - ✔✔< 3 months, pain management, client has terminal diagnosis and is no
longer seeking life-prolonging care.
✔✔Inpatient meaning - ✔✔overnight in the Hospital
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔the basic rules about wages, work hours, and vacation days are covered in: -
✔✔Employment standards legislation
✔✔ Universality means - ✔✔all permanent residents are entitled to receive insured
health care
✔✔What are the principles of Medicare? - ✔✔Comprehensiveness, Universality,
Portability, Accessibility, Public Administration
✔✔Primary Health Care Delivery is: - ✔✔1st point of contact with Health Care System
(fever, bad cough, flu)
✔✔Primary Health Care Delivery focuses on - ✔✔Disease prevention and health
promotion
✔✔Secondary Health Care Delivery is / focuses on: - ✔✔2nd point of contact with HCS/
Assessment, diagnosis, treatment
✔✔Tertiary Health Care Delivery means: - ✔✔More sick, highly specialized care (ICU)
✔✔Comprehensiveness means - ✔✔the insurance plan must pay for all medical
services (eg. MSP)
✔✔Portability means - ✔✔You can keep your health care coverage if you move
provinces, become unemployed, move jobs, or travel within Canada or abroad.
✔✔Accessibility means - ✔✔everyone receives the same service (doesnt matter age,
gender, income, etc.)
✔✔Public Administration means - ✔✔the insurance plan must be run by a public
organization on a nonprofit basis (VCH, Fraser Health, etc.)
✔✔A major focus of home care is to - ✔✔enable clients to remain in their own home
✔✔Examples of health promotion strategies - ✔✔exercise, good diet, regular doctor
visits
✔✔Canada's health care system has seen a shift in focus from _________ to
_________ - ✔✔Hospitals to Home care
, ✔✔Difference between health promotion and disease prevention - ✔✔Health promotion
is a strategy that improves and maintain health and independence: Disease prevention
is strategies that prevent the occurrence of disease and injury
✔✔Who provides the most work in home care services - ✔✔support workers
✔✔home care is a _________ based service - ✔✔community
✔✔Resident means they are in : - ✔✔Long term care
✔✔Client means they are in: - ✔✔Home support
✔✔Patient means they are in: - ✔✔Hospital
✔✔Acute care means - ✔✔In hospital > 3 months
✔✔Subacute care means - ✔✔Rehabilitation for people post-surgery / medically stable
after a serious illness or health challenge
✔✔Another name for subacute care - ✔✔Convalescent care / complex continuing care
✔✔Long-term care means - ✔✔fully dependent residents, 24/7 care, with chronic
illnesses
✔✔Respite care means - ✔✔temporary care of someone who requires high level
support, offers relief of their current caregiver
✔✔Day program - ✔✔not overnight (eg. blood or iron transfusions, dyalisis, recreational
activities, rehab
✔✔Rehabilitation services - ✔✔programs designed to restore or improve client's
independence and functional abilities
✔✔Palliative care - ✔✔not curable disease, pain management, usually > 1 year, goal is
to improve client's quality of life
✔✔End-of-life care - ✔✔<2 weeks, physical, emotional, social and spiritual care for
client and family
✔✔Hospice - ✔✔< 3 months, pain management, client has terminal diagnosis and is no
longer seeking life-prolonging care.
✔✔Inpatient meaning - ✔✔overnight in the Hospital
