HOME HEALTH AIDE EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS & SOLUTIONS(GRADED A+)

HOME HEALTH AIDE EXAM COMPLETE
QUESTIONS & SOLUTIONS(GRADED
A+)
As a home health care aide you are able to reinforce a dressing true or false? -
ANSWER True

As a home health care aide you are able to, apply a hot pack true or false! - ANSWER
False

As a home health care aide you are able to give a patient an enema true or false? -
ANSWER False

As a home health care aide you are able to administer medication true or false ? -
ANSWER False

As a home health care aide you are able to change sterile dressing true or false? -
ANSWER False

As a home health care aide you are able to assist with a colostomy bag true or false ? -
ANSWER True

As a home health care aide you are able to give a rectal suppository true or false? -
ANSWER False

As a home health care aide you are able to give a tubal feeding true or false? -
ANSWER False

As a home health care aide you are able to give insulin true or false ? - ANSWER False

As a home health care aide you are able to cut patient's nails true or false? - ANSWER
False

As a home health care aide you work as part of a health care team true or false ? -
ANSWER True

When you work in the home as a home health care aide you will be working under
who's supervision? - ANSWER Professional Supervisor

As a home health care aide your responsibility is ? - ANSWER To only complete tasks
that the RN or therapist assigns you to do.

, As a home health care aide communication is key what are some ways of
communicating with patient. - ANSWER 1: In the home it is important to be a good
listener.
2:Always tell the Pt what your going to do before starting any procedure.
3: There are different ways of to communicate besides talking.
4: Body language is also a way of communicating.

True or False : A rapid pulse and shortness of breathe in a patient usually indicates the
patient is excited and does not need to be reported. - ANSWER False

The patient tells you he has not moved his bowels in three days. What should you do ? -
ANSWER Report it to the nursing supervisor.

Which of these actions is the home health aide permitted to take in relation to drug
administration ? - ANSWER Recording and reporting the patient's reaction to the
medication.

When a patient complaints of pain, what should the home health aide's do first? -
ANSWER Ask the patient to describe the pain.

A patient's prescription for heart pills has recently been changed. The home health aide
should notify the agency supervisor immediately if the patient makes which of these
comments? - ANSWER I have a rash on my stomach since Iv'e been taking these pills.

Mrs.Rand ,who has diabetes and takes insulin regularly ,tells the home health aide that
she feels very nervous and jittery. What should the aide do immediately? - ANSWER
Give her a glass of orange juice.

True or False: Always report pulse rate if the beats per minute are under 60 or over 100.
- ANSWER True

True or False: The temperature of an unconscious patient should be taken orally since
they are not moving about. - ANSWER False

True or False: Recording a patient's "TPR" or vital signs is not important as long as you
remember what they were. - ANSWER False

For which,if any , of these body areas is 99.6 degrees F.a normal temp. - ANSWER
Rectum

When taking a patient's pulse, you should take it for how long ? - ANSWER One full
minute.

When a patient's respirations are being counted , it is best the patient? - ANSWER Not
be aware that the respirations are being counted.