HOME HEALTH AIDE UPDATED FINAL EXAMS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔When were the first home health aides hired? - ✔✔During The Great Depression in
the 1930s, women were hired as "housekeeping aides." They were paid by the
government. Once the program discontinued, some aides continued to work for local
family and children services, which provided services to families in need.
✔✔In 1959... - ✔✔A national conference on homemaker services was held. It was clear
that there was a great need not only for homemaker or housekeeping services, but for
personal, in-home care for sick people.
✔✔In 1965... - ✔✔The Medicare program was created. Because many Medicare
recipients need home care, home health services have been growing ever since.
Medicare first began referring to home makers as "home health aides."
✔✔What are the basic methods of payment for home health services? - ✔✔1. Medicare
2. Medicaid
3. State and local governments
4. Insurance company
5. Individual client or family
,✔✔Home Health Agencies - ✔✔businesses that provide health care and personal
services in the home.
✔✔What are some of the healthcare services that are provided by home health
agencies? - ✔✔nursing care, specialized therapy, specific medical equipment,
pharmacy, intravenous (IV) products, and personal care.
✔✔Home Health Aide (HHA) - ✔✔performs assigned tasks, such as taking vital signs,
and provides or assists with routine personal care, such as bathing clients or preparing
meals. Spend the most time with clients than other members of the health care team.
They act as the "Eyes and ears" of the team.
✔✔Case Manager/Supervisor - ✔✔Usually a registered nurse, a case manager, or
supervisor is assigned to each client by the home health agency. They create the basic
care plan for each client. Monitors any changes that are observed and reported by the
HHA.
✔✔Registered Nurse - ✔✔In a home health agency, a RN coordinates, manages, and
provides care. RNs also supervise and train home health aides. They develop the home
health aide plan of care, or assignments. Graduated from two/four year nursing
programs and passed a licensing exam.
✔✔Physician or Doctor (MD or DO) - ✔✔Diagnoses disease or disability and prescribes
treatment
✔✔Physical Therapist (PT) - ✔✔evaluates a person and develops a treatment plan to
increase movement, improve circulation, promote healing, reduce pain, prevent
disability, and help the resident regain or maintain mobility
✔✔speech-language pathologist (Speech therapist) - ✔✔identifies communication
disorders, addresses factors involved in recovery, and develops a plan of care to meet
recovery goals.
✔✔Occupational Therapist (OT) - ✔✔Helps residents learn to adapt to disabilities by
training residents to perform ADLs and other activities
✔✔activities of daily living (ADLs) - ✔✔basic self-care tasks such as eating, bathing,
toileting, walking, and dressing
✔✔Registered Dietitian (RDT) - ✔✔teaches clients and their families about special diets
to improve their health and help manage their illnesses.
✔✔Medical Social Worker (MSW) - ✔✔determines residents' needs and helps get them
support services, such as counseling or financial assistance
, ✔✔client - ✔✔Make decisions and choices about his or her own care. The client's family
may also be involved in the decision making. The care team revolves around the client
and his or her condition, treatment, and progress. Without the client, there is no care
team.
✔✔Whats the role of the home health aide? - ✔✔To improve or maintain the
independence, health, and well-being of clients.
This is accomplished by providing or assisting with personal care, assisting with
activities of daily living (ADLs), and performing assigned tasks, and promoting self-care.
✔✔What might a care plan include? - ✔✔Bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting,
assisting with range of motion (ROM) exercises and ambulation (walking), transferring
from bed to chair or wheelchair, feeding, measuring vitals, giving skin care, using
medical supplies and equipment such as wheelchairs and walkers, changing of simple
dressings, making and changing beds, light housekeeping, and teaching home
management and safety
✔✔scope of practice - ✔✔defines the tasks you're allowed to do and how to do them
correctly.
✔✔How do live ins pay? - ✔✔Usually pay out of pocket or have long-term care
✔✔Outside the scope of practice - ✔✔Tasks that HHAs are not allowed to to perform
under any circumstances
✔✔What should you do if you're asked to perform a task that's outside of your scope of
practice? - ✔✔1. Do not honor the request.
2. Politely explain that you can not perform the task requested.
3. Report the request to a supervisor.
✔✔What are are some things that are out of the scope of practice for a HHA? - ✔✔1.
DO NOTinsert or remove tubes or objects (other than a thermometer) in a client's body.
These procedures are considered "invasive" and are only to be performed by a licensed
professional
2. DO NOT administer medications unless trained and assigned to do so.
3. DO NOT perform procedures that require sterile technique. Ex: changing a sterile
dressing on a deep, open wound. This requires sterile technique.
4. DO NOT diagnose illnesses or prescribe treatments or medications.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔When were the first home health aides hired? - ✔✔During The Great Depression in
the 1930s, women were hired as "housekeeping aides." They were paid by the
government. Once the program discontinued, some aides continued to work for local
family and children services, which provided services to families in need.
✔✔In 1959... - ✔✔A national conference on homemaker services was held. It was clear
that there was a great need not only for homemaker or housekeeping services, but for
personal, in-home care for sick people.
✔✔In 1965... - ✔✔The Medicare program was created. Because many Medicare
recipients need home care, home health services have been growing ever since.
Medicare first began referring to home makers as "home health aides."
✔✔What are the basic methods of payment for home health services? - ✔✔1. Medicare
2. Medicaid
3. State and local governments
4. Insurance company
5. Individual client or family
,✔✔Home Health Agencies - ✔✔businesses that provide health care and personal
services in the home.
✔✔What are some of the healthcare services that are provided by home health
agencies? - ✔✔nursing care, specialized therapy, specific medical equipment,
pharmacy, intravenous (IV) products, and personal care.
✔✔Home Health Aide (HHA) - ✔✔performs assigned tasks, such as taking vital signs,
and provides or assists with routine personal care, such as bathing clients or preparing
meals. Spend the most time with clients than other members of the health care team.
They act as the "Eyes and ears" of the team.
✔✔Case Manager/Supervisor - ✔✔Usually a registered nurse, a case manager, or
supervisor is assigned to each client by the home health agency. They create the basic
care plan for each client. Monitors any changes that are observed and reported by the
HHA.
✔✔Registered Nurse - ✔✔In a home health agency, a RN coordinates, manages, and
provides care. RNs also supervise and train home health aides. They develop the home
health aide plan of care, or assignments. Graduated from two/four year nursing
programs and passed a licensing exam.
✔✔Physician or Doctor (MD or DO) - ✔✔Diagnoses disease or disability and prescribes
treatment
✔✔Physical Therapist (PT) - ✔✔evaluates a person and develops a treatment plan to
increase movement, improve circulation, promote healing, reduce pain, prevent
disability, and help the resident regain or maintain mobility
✔✔speech-language pathologist (Speech therapist) - ✔✔identifies communication
disorders, addresses factors involved in recovery, and develops a plan of care to meet
recovery goals.
✔✔Occupational Therapist (OT) - ✔✔Helps residents learn to adapt to disabilities by
training residents to perform ADLs and other activities
✔✔activities of daily living (ADLs) - ✔✔basic self-care tasks such as eating, bathing,
toileting, walking, and dressing
✔✔Registered Dietitian (RDT) - ✔✔teaches clients and their families about special diets
to improve their health and help manage their illnesses.
✔✔Medical Social Worker (MSW) - ✔✔determines residents' needs and helps get them
support services, such as counseling or financial assistance
, ✔✔client - ✔✔Make decisions and choices about his or her own care. The client's family
may also be involved in the decision making. The care team revolves around the client
and his or her condition, treatment, and progress. Without the client, there is no care
team.
✔✔Whats the role of the home health aide? - ✔✔To improve or maintain the
independence, health, and well-being of clients.
This is accomplished by providing or assisting with personal care, assisting with
activities of daily living (ADLs), and performing assigned tasks, and promoting self-care.
✔✔What might a care plan include? - ✔✔Bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting,
assisting with range of motion (ROM) exercises and ambulation (walking), transferring
from bed to chair or wheelchair, feeding, measuring vitals, giving skin care, using
medical supplies and equipment such as wheelchairs and walkers, changing of simple
dressings, making and changing beds, light housekeeping, and teaching home
management and safety
✔✔scope of practice - ✔✔defines the tasks you're allowed to do and how to do them
correctly.
✔✔How do live ins pay? - ✔✔Usually pay out of pocket or have long-term care
✔✔Outside the scope of practice - ✔✔Tasks that HHAs are not allowed to to perform
under any circumstances
✔✔What should you do if you're asked to perform a task that's outside of your scope of
practice? - ✔✔1. Do not honor the request.
2. Politely explain that you can not perform the task requested.
3. Report the request to a supervisor.
✔✔What are are some things that are out of the scope of practice for a HHA? - ✔✔1.
DO NOTinsert or remove tubes or objects (other than a thermometer) in a client's body.
These procedures are considered "invasive" and are only to be performed by a licensed
professional
2. DO NOT administer medications unless trained and assigned to do so.
3. DO NOT perform procedures that require sterile technique. Ex: changing a sterile
dressing on a deep, open wound. This requires sterile technique.
4. DO NOT diagnose illnesses or prescribe treatments or medications.
