HCA 104 | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
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Key characteristics of caring - ✔✔compassionate, thoughtful, gentle, attentive
define caring for - ✔✔to provide care or expressing care through actions to help a person
define caring about - ✔✔to express concern for another's wellbeing
factors that hinder effective caring - ✔✔stress level or fatigue, your emotional, mental, and physical
health, busy-ness, familiarity of needs of person, support or lack of support
Caring Approach - ✔✔view client as a whole person, respect values and beliefs, assist in meeting basic
needs while maximizing independence, respect privacy, effective communication, include client in
decision making, honour role of family, advocate for client, honesty and integrity, assume responsibility
Define normalization - ✔✔any efforts made to establish and maintain personal behaviours and
characteristics that are as close as possible to what would be considered normal in our culture for
anyone the same age and sex
Define person-centered care - ✔✔focusing on the client as a person
client rights - ✔✔respect, autonomy, dignity, privacy
List Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, self-
actualization
Define need priority - ✔✔factors that are more important for the sake of survival
basic physiological needs - ✔✔oxygen, food and water, rest and sleep, mobility, stimulation
, Define Safety - ✔✔protection from harm, danger, fear, pain
Define security - ✔✔confidence in your means of support
What is the strongest of all needs? - ✔✔physiological
Define Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔things that are necessary or desirable for maintaining life and
psychosocial well-being
explain the order of importance for Maslow's hierarchy of needs - ✔✔Lower level needs must be met
before higher level needs
Define growth - ✔✔physical changes a person experiences, measurable, occur in an orderly and steady
manner
examples of growth - ✔✔changes in height, weight, physical appearances, body functions
Define development - ✔✔changes in psychological and social functioning
Factors affecting human development - ✔✔heredity or genetics, environment, upbringing
Define ageism - ✔✔prejudice or discrimination on the basis of a person's age
Three types of loss - ✔✔loss of oneself, a loved one, objects external to oneself
Loss associated with institutionalization - ✔✔loss of independence, loss of possessions, loss of personal
space, loss of family and friends, loss of control
100%|GRADE A+|LATEST 2024/2025
Key characteristics of caring - ✔✔compassionate, thoughtful, gentle, attentive
define caring for - ✔✔to provide care or expressing care through actions to help a person
define caring about - ✔✔to express concern for another's wellbeing
factors that hinder effective caring - ✔✔stress level or fatigue, your emotional, mental, and physical
health, busy-ness, familiarity of needs of person, support or lack of support
Caring Approach - ✔✔view client as a whole person, respect values and beliefs, assist in meeting basic
needs while maximizing independence, respect privacy, effective communication, include client in
decision making, honour role of family, advocate for client, honesty and integrity, assume responsibility
Define normalization - ✔✔any efforts made to establish and maintain personal behaviours and
characteristics that are as close as possible to what would be considered normal in our culture for
anyone the same age and sex
Define person-centered care - ✔✔focusing on the client as a person
client rights - ✔✔respect, autonomy, dignity, privacy
List Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, self-
actualization
Define need priority - ✔✔factors that are more important for the sake of survival
basic physiological needs - ✔✔oxygen, food and water, rest and sleep, mobility, stimulation
, Define Safety - ✔✔protection from harm, danger, fear, pain
Define security - ✔✔confidence in your means of support
What is the strongest of all needs? - ✔✔physiological
Define Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔things that are necessary or desirable for maintaining life and
psychosocial well-being
explain the order of importance for Maslow's hierarchy of needs - ✔✔Lower level needs must be met
before higher level needs
Define growth - ✔✔physical changes a person experiences, measurable, occur in an orderly and steady
manner
examples of growth - ✔✔changes in height, weight, physical appearances, body functions
Define development - ✔✔changes in psychological and social functioning
Factors affecting human development - ✔✔heredity or genetics, environment, upbringing
Define ageism - ✔✔prejudice or discrimination on the basis of a person's age
Three types of loss - ✔✔loss of oneself, a loved one, objects external to oneself
Loss associated with institutionalization - ✔✔loss of independence, loss of possessions, loss of personal
space, loss of family and friends, loss of control
