HCA100 UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Hospice - ✔✔< 3 months, pain management, client has terminal diagnosis and is no
longer seeking life-prolonging care.
✔✔Inpatient meaning - ✔✔overnight in the Hospital
✔✔Outpatient meaning - ✔✔only comes in Hospital for treatment, day service
✔✔Acute illness meaning - ✔✔shorterm, less than 6 months, usually in hospital
✔✔Chronic illness meaning - ✔✔more than 6 months illness, may or may not grow
worse overtime
✔✔ADL meaning - ✔✔activities of daily living
✔✔DIPPS is the principles of what - ✔✔client-centered care
✔✔what are the 6 principles of client centered care - ✔✔Dignity, Independence,
Individualized care, Preferences, Privacy, and Safety
✔✔Dignity - ✔✔state of feeling valued, worthy, and respected
✔✔Independence - ✔✔clients need to do what they can for themselves
✔✔Individualized care - ✔✔care should be personalized to each client
✔✔Preferences - ✔✔clients need to make choices and explain how they want things
done
✔✔Privacy - ✔✔treat clients respectfully, protected from public view
✔✔Safety - ✔✔Live in a hazard free enviroment
✔✔is there a legal scope of practice for support workers - ✔✔no
✔✔Support workers care for who: - ✔✔Elders, people with - disabilities, medical issues,
having surgery, mental health issues, needing rehabilitation, children, mothers and
newborns, requiring special care.
✔✔IADL meaning and examples - ✔✔Instrumental activities of daily living; banking,
shopping, using transportation, preparing meals.
, ✔✔Acuty means - ✔✔how sick someone is; their medical condition; usually in hospital
✔✔Dependency is - ✔✔refers to volume of work that may be required from health care
team to provide personal care needs of a client: how much help they need
✔✔High Acuty meaning - ✔✔defined by medical instability: needs frequent monitoring
✔✔High dependency meaning - ✔✔total ADL support, has complex behavioural
management needs, requires more assistance
✔✔Low acuty meaning - ✔✔clients who become more stable, demonstrated overall
improvement, require less or routine monitoring
✔✔Low dependency meaning - ✔✔clients who require minimal support for ADLS
✔✔Who can supervise care aides? - ✔✔nurses, other health care profressionals (PT,
OT)
✔✔What is a solicited letter - ✔✔a letter responding to an ad or job post
✔✔what is an unsolicited letter - ✔✔a letter inquiring a job
✔✔what is ethics - ✔✔rules of conduct that guide us when deciding whats right or
wrong
✔✔what is morals - ✔✔what we believe to be right or wrong
✔✔what is values - ✔✔what an individual considers to be worthwhile qualities in a
person
✔✔what is a belief - ✔✔a conviction that something is true
✔✔what are the 4 principles of health care ethics - ✔✔autonomy, justice, beneficence,
and nonmalificence
✔✔Automony means - ✔✔freedom of choice
✔✔Justice means - ✔✔all people should be treated fairly and equally
✔✔Beneficence means - ✔✔doing or promoting good
✔✔Nonmalificence - ✔✔to do no harm
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Hospice - ✔✔< 3 months, pain management, client has terminal diagnosis and is no
longer seeking life-prolonging care.
✔✔Inpatient meaning - ✔✔overnight in the Hospital
✔✔Outpatient meaning - ✔✔only comes in Hospital for treatment, day service
✔✔Acute illness meaning - ✔✔shorterm, less than 6 months, usually in hospital
✔✔Chronic illness meaning - ✔✔more than 6 months illness, may or may not grow
worse overtime
✔✔ADL meaning - ✔✔activities of daily living
✔✔DIPPS is the principles of what - ✔✔client-centered care
✔✔what are the 6 principles of client centered care - ✔✔Dignity, Independence,
Individualized care, Preferences, Privacy, and Safety
✔✔Dignity - ✔✔state of feeling valued, worthy, and respected
✔✔Independence - ✔✔clients need to do what they can for themselves
✔✔Individualized care - ✔✔care should be personalized to each client
✔✔Preferences - ✔✔clients need to make choices and explain how they want things
done
✔✔Privacy - ✔✔treat clients respectfully, protected from public view
✔✔Safety - ✔✔Live in a hazard free enviroment
✔✔is there a legal scope of practice for support workers - ✔✔no
✔✔Support workers care for who: - ✔✔Elders, people with - disabilities, medical issues,
having surgery, mental health issues, needing rehabilitation, children, mothers and
newborns, requiring special care.
✔✔IADL meaning and examples - ✔✔Instrumental activities of daily living; banking,
shopping, using transportation, preparing meals.
, ✔✔Acuty means - ✔✔how sick someone is; their medical condition; usually in hospital
✔✔Dependency is - ✔✔refers to volume of work that may be required from health care
team to provide personal care needs of a client: how much help they need
✔✔High Acuty meaning - ✔✔defined by medical instability: needs frequent monitoring
✔✔High dependency meaning - ✔✔total ADL support, has complex behavioural
management needs, requires more assistance
✔✔Low acuty meaning - ✔✔clients who become more stable, demonstrated overall
improvement, require less or routine monitoring
✔✔Low dependency meaning - ✔✔clients who require minimal support for ADLS
✔✔Who can supervise care aides? - ✔✔nurses, other health care profressionals (PT,
OT)
✔✔What is a solicited letter - ✔✔a letter responding to an ad or job post
✔✔what is an unsolicited letter - ✔✔a letter inquiring a job
✔✔what is ethics - ✔✔rules of conduct that guide us when deciding whats right or
wrong
✔✔what is morals - ✔✔what we believe to be right or wrong
✔✔what is values - ✔✔what an individual considers to be worthwhile qualities in a
person
✔✔what is a belief - ✔✔a conviction that something is true
✔✔what are the 4 principles of health care ethics - ✔✔autonomy, justice, beneficence,
and nonmalificence
✔✔Automony means - ✔✔freedom of choice
✔✔Justice means - ✔✔all people should be treated fairly and equally
✔✔Beneficence means - ✔✔doing or promoting good
✔✔Nonmalificence - ✔✔to do no harm
