NACC - PSW EXAM REVIEW 200
QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS 2025 UPDATE
1. The Canada Health Act
ANS: Which law ensures that every citizen has access to health care?
2. Rising costs of providing technology, drugs, and services
ANS: The most pressing cause of health care reform has been:
3. Support services provided through home care DO NOT include
ANS: Respiratory Therapy
4. A holistic approach to health
ANS: Takes into account the whole person
5. Do people with strong emotional health show their emotions easily?
ANS: People with strong emotional health do not show their emotions easily.
6. Acute Illness
ANS: Appears suddenly and lasts a short time
7. People usually recover from chronic illness
ANS: This is not true of chronic illness
8. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
ANS: A system that arranges human needs into categories
9. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
ANS: The bill identifying human rights that are guaranteed to everyone in Canada; on
every level and embedded in the Constitution of Canada
,10. Provincial Human Rights Codes
ANS: Freedom from discrimination, harassment. Equal treatment with respect to services
and facilities, age, sex, ethnicity. Does not promote the right to vote.
11. Informed consent
ANS: Must include information about the nature of the treatment, discuss potential risks
and side effects, likely consequences of not having the treatment. Does not include
reassurance that this is the best and only option.
12. Negligence
ANS: Careless neglect, often resulting in injury. Prison term is unlikely.
13. Assault
ANS: Intentional attempt or threat to touch a person's body without the person's consent.
14. False Imprisonment
ANS: The illegal restraint of another person's movement
15. Prejudice
ANS: Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
16. Activities of Daily Living
ANS: Self-care activities that people perform to remain independent and function in
society
17. Unregulated Health Care Provider
ANS: Personal Support Worker
18. Professionalism
ANS: An approach to work that demonstrates respect for others, commitment,
competence, and appropriate behavior
19. Hospitals
ANS: Work settings that provide acute care
, 20. Respite services
ANS: Service that provides a temporary break to family caregivers
21. Residents in retirement facilities
ANS: Older adults with limited care needs
22. Membership of the healthcare team
ANS: Determined by the client's needs
23. Opportunity for collaboration
ANS: Benefits of team approach to health care
24. Case manager
ANS: Evaluates a client's needs and coordinates the services of the health care in a
community team
25. Delegated task responsibility
ANS: You, and the RN are responsible
26. Stress
ANS: The emotional, behavioral, or physical response to an event or situation. Not
influenced by gender.
27. Displacement
ANS: When you respond in anger to someone who was not the person who angered you.
28. S.M.A.R.T
ANS: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely
29. Non-maleficence
ANS: Duty to do no harm, provide a safe environment
30. Autonomy
ANS: Self-government, respecting personal preferences
QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS 2025 UPDATE
1. The Canada Health Act
ANS: Which law ensures that every citizen has access to health care?
2. Rising costs of providing technology, drugs, and services
ANS: The most pressing cause of health care reform has been:
3. Support services provided through home care DO NOT include
ANS: Respiratory Therapy
4. A holistic approach to health
ANS: Takes into account the whole person
5. Do people with strong emotional health show their emotions easily?
ANS: People with strong emotional health do not show their emotions easily.
6. Acute Illness
ANS: Appears suddenly and lasts a short time
7. People usually recover from chronic illness
ANS: This is not true of chronic illness
8. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
ANS: A system that arranges human needs into categories
9. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
ANS: The bill identifying human rights that are guaranteed to everyone in Canada; on
every level and embedded in the Constitution of Canada
,10. Provincial Human Rights Codes
ANS: Freedom from discrimination, harassment. Equal treatment with respect to services
and facilities, age, sex, ethnicity. Does not promote the right to vote.
11. Informed consent
ANS: Must include information about the nature of the treatment, discuss potential risks
and side effects, likely consequences of not having the treatment. Does not include
reassurance that this is the best and only option.
12. Negligence
ANS: Careless neglect, often resulting in injury. Prison term is unlikely.
13. Assault
ANS: Intentional attempt or threat to touch a person's body without the person's consent.
14. False Imprisonment
ANS: The illegal restraint of another person's movement
15. Prejudice
ANS: Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
16. Activities of Daily Living
ANS: Self-care activities that people perform to remain independent and function in
society
17. Unregulated Health Care Provider
ANS: Personal Support Worker
18. Professionalism
ANS: An approach to work that demonstrates respect for others, commitment,
competence, and appropriate behavior
19. Hospitals
ANS: Work settings that provide acute care
, 20. Respite services
ANS: Service that provides a temporary break to family caregivers
21. Residents in retirement facilities
ANS: Older adults with limited care needs
22. Membership of the healthcare team
ANS: Determined by the client's needs
23. Opportunity for collaboration
ANS: Benefits of team approach to health care
24. Case manager
ANS: Evaluates a client's needs and coordinates the services of the health care in a
community team
25. Delegated task responsibility
ANS: You, and the RN are responsible
26. Stress
ANS: The emotional, behavioral, or physical response to an event or situation. Not
influenced by gender.
27. Displacement
ANS: When you respond in anger to someone who was not the person who angered you.
28. S.M.A.R.T
ANS: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely
29. Non-maleficence
ANS: Duty to do no harm, provide a safe environment
30. Autonomy
ANS: Self-government, respecting personal preferences
