HOSA Home Health Aide Questions
With All Correct Answers Passed!!!
100% (A+)
HHA Tasks - Ans--Housekeeping
Family Contact
Independence
Communication
Transportation
Safety
Flexibility
Working Environment
Clients Home
Clients comfort
What is a HHA a part of? - Ans--A team of health professionals that include
doctors, nurses, social workers, therapists, and specialists.
Who is important to the care team? - Ans--The client and the clients family
Care team - Ans--healthcare professionals with different kinds of education
and experience.
HHA - Ans--performs assigned tasks, provides routine personal care, helps
perform ADLs. Eyes and ears of the team.
Case Manager or Supervisor - Ans--Usually an RN, creates the care plan,
monitors changes.
Registered Nurse (RN) - Ans--Coordinates, manages, and provides skilled
nursing care, supervise and train HHAs
Doctor (MD or DO) - Ans--diagnose disease or disability and prescribe
treatment. decides whether a patient needs home health care
,Physical Therapist (PT or DPT) - Ans--evaluates a person and develops a
treatment plan to increase movement, improve circulation, promote
healing, reduce pain, prevent disability, and regain or maintain mobility
Occupational Therapist (OT) - Ans--helps clients learn to adapt to
disabilities.
speech-language pathologist - Ans--identifies communication disorders
and creates a plan to help
evaluates ability to swallow
Registered Dietitian - Ans--teaches clients and their families about special
diets to improve their health and manage their illness.
Medical Social Worker (MSW) - Ans--determines residents' needs and
helps get them support services, such as counseling or financial assistance
Client and Client's Family - Ans--makes choices about their care
Care plan - Ans--individualized for each client and developed to achieve
goals of care
Golden Rule - Ans--activities not listed on the care plan should not be
performed
Chain of Command - Ans--describes the line of authority and helps to make
sure that residents get proper health care
liability - Ans--someone can be held responsible for harming someone else
scope of practice - Ans--the tasks that healthcare providers are allowed to
do and how to do them correctly
policy - Ans--a course of action that should be taken every time a certain
situation occurs
procedure - Ans--a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
,Common Policies - Ans---all client information is confidential
-the clients care plan must always be followed
-HHAs must report to the supervisor
-personal problems should not be discussed
-HHAs must be punctual and dependable
-Deadlines must be net
-HHAs must not give or receive gifts
Professionalism - Ans--having to do with work or job
personal - Ans--life outside a job
HHA professionalism - Ans--following the care plan, making important
observations, and reporting accurately
Professionalism with Clients - Ans---keeping a positive attitude
-arriving on time, doing tasks efficiently, and leaving on time
-finishing an assignment
-doing only the tasks assigned
-keeping clients information confidential
-being polite and cheerful
-not discussing personal problems
-not making personal phone calls or sending texts while working
-not using profanity
-listening to the client
-never accepting gifts
-calling the client by a proper name
-always explaining care
-following practices
Qualities of HHAs - Ans--compassionate, empathetic, sympathetic, honest,
tactful, conscientious, dependable, patient, respectful, unprejudiced, and
tolérant
Ethics - Ans--knowledge of right and wrong
laws - Ans--rules set by the government to help people live peacefully
together
, Legal and Ethical Behavior - Ans---be honest
-protect clients' privacy and confidentiality
-report abuse or suspected abuse
-follow the care plan and assignments
-do not perform any unassigned tasks
-report all client observations
-document properly
-follow rules on safety and infection prevention
-do not accept gifts or tips
-do not become personally or sexually involved with clients or their family
members
-do not bring friends or family members with you
Home Health aides are - Ans--guided by ethics and laws that set up limits for
their relationships with clients.
When HHAs and clients become friends it - Ans--makes it harder to enforce
rules
Advance Directives - Ans--legal documents that allow people to choose
what medical they wish to have it they are unable to make the decisions for
themselves
Clients Bill of Rights - Ans--right to not be discriminated against on the basis
of race, color, religions, national origin, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation
or disability.
Clients have the right - Ans---to have relationships with HHAs that are
based in honesty and ethical standards of conduct
-To he informed of the procedures so they can lodge complaints
-to voice their grievances
-to be advised of the states home care hotline
-to be notified in advance about visits
-to be advised of changes in care
-to participate in planning care
-to be informed in writing of rights under state law
-to be notified of the expected outcomes of care
With All Correct Answers Passed!!!
100% (A+)
HHA Tasks - Ans--Housekeeping
Family Contact
Independence
Communication
Transportation
Safety
Flexibility
Working Environment
Clients Home
Clients comfort
What is a HHA a part of? - Ans--A team of health professionals that include
doctors, nurses, social workers, therapists, and specialists.
Who is important to the care team? - Ans--The client and the clients family
Care team - Ans--healthcare professionals with different kinds of education
and experience.
HHA - Ans--performs assigned tasks, provides routine personal care, helps
perform ADLs. Eyes and ears of the team.
Case Manager or Supervisor - Ans--Usually an RN, creates the care plan,
monitors changes.
Registered Nurse (RN) - Ans--Coordinates, manages, and provides skilled
nursing care, supervise and train HHAs
Doctor (MD or DO) - Ans--diagnose disease or disability and prescribe
treatment. decides whether a patient needs home health care
,Physical Therapist (PT or DPT) - Ans--evaluates a person and develops a
treatment plan to increase movement, improve circulation, promote
healing, reduce pain, prevent disability, and regain or maintain mobility
Occupational Therapist (OT) - Ans--helps clients learn to adapt to
disabilities.
speech-language pathologist - Ans--identifies communication disorders
and creates a plan to help
evaluates ability to swallow
Registered Dietitian - Ans--teaches clients and their families about special
diets to improve their health and manage their illness.
Medical Social Worker (MSW) - Ans--determines residents' needs and
helps get them support services, such as counseling or financial assistance
Client and Client's Family - Ans--makes choices about their care
Care plan - Ans--individualized for each client and developed to achieve
goals of care
Golden Rule - Ans--activities not listed on the care plan should not be
performed
Chain of Command - Ans--describes the line of authority and helps to make
sure that residents get proper health care
liability - Ans--someone can be held responsible for harming someone else
scope of practice - Ans--the tasks that healthcare providers are allowed to
do and how to do them correctly
policy - Ans--a course of action that should be taken every time a certain
situation occurs
procedure - Ans--a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
,Common Policies - Ans---all client information is confidential
-the clients care plan must always be followed
-HHAs must report to the supervisor
-personal problems should not be discussed
-HHAs must be punctual and dependable
-Deadlines must be net
-HHAs must not give or receive gifts
Professionalism - Ans--having to do with work or job
personal - Ans--life outside a job
HHA professionalism - Ans--following the care plan, making important
observations, and reporting accurately
Professionalism with Clients - Ans---keeping a positive attitude
-arriving on time, doing tasks efficiently, and leaving on time
-finishing an assignment
-doing only the tasks assigned
-keeping clients information confidential
-being polite and cheerful
-not discussing personal problems
-not making personal phone calls or sending texts while working
-not using profanity
-listening to the client
-never accepting gifts
-calling the client by a proper name
-always explaining care
-following practices
Qualities of HHAs - Ans--compassionate, empathetic, sympathetic, honest,
tactful, conscientious, dependable, patient, respectful, unprejudiced, and
tolérant
Ethics - Ans--knowledge of right and wrong
laws - Ans--rules set by the government to help people live peacefully
together
, Legal and Ethical Behavior - Ans---be honest
-protect clients' privacy and confidentiality
-report abuse or suspected abuse
-follow the care plan and assignments
-do not perform any unassigned tasks
-report all client observations
-document properly
-follow rules on safety and infection prevention
-do not accept gifts or tips
-do not become personally or sexually involved with clients or their family
members
-do not bring friends or family members with you
Home Health aides are - Ans--guided by ethics and laws that set up limits for
their relationships with clients.
When HHAs and clients become friends it - Ans--makes it harder to enforce
rules
Advance Directives - Ans--legal documents that allow people to choose
what medical they wish to have it they are unable to make the decisions for
themselves
Clients Bill of Rights - Ans--right to not be discriminated against on the basis
of race, color, religions, national origin, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation
or disability.
Clients have the right - Ans---to have relationships with HHAs that are
based in honesty and ethical standards of conduct
-To he informed of the procedures so they can lodge complaints
-to voice their grievances
-to be advised of the states home care hotline
-to be notified in advance about visits
-to be advised of changes in care
-to participate in planning care
-to be informed in writing of rights under state law
-to be notified of the expected outcomes of care
