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Personal Support Worker NACC Final
Examination Prep and Practice Questions
2025
Which law ensures that every citizen has access to health care?
a) Canada Health Protection Act
b) Universal Health Policy
c) The Canada Health Act
d) National Medical Services Act
Rationale: The Canada Health Act guarantees access to essential health care for all Canadians.
The other options do not exist as national legislation.
The most pressing cause of health care reform has been:
a) Lack of nurses
b) Rising costs of providing technology, drugs and services
c) Poor patient satisfaction
d) Shortage of hospitals
Rationale: The growing costs of medical technology, treatments, and drugs drive reforms. The
others are contributing factors, not the main cause.
Support services provided through home care DO NOT include:
a) Nursing
b) Physiotherapy
c) Respiratory Therapy
d) Nutrition counseling
Rationale: Respiratory therapy is usually provided in hospital settings. The others are common
home care services.
A holistic approach to health:
a) Focuses on physical symptoms only
b) Takes into account the whole person
c) Deals only with medical treatment
d) Ignores mental health
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Rationale: Holistic health includes physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being — not
just disease treatment.
People with strong emotional health:
a) Cry frequently
b) Show all emotions easily
c) Do not show their emotions easily
d) Avoid emotions completely
Rationale: Emotionally strong people manage feelings with self-control. They acknowledge
emotions but don’t act impulsively on them.
Acute illness:
a) Develops slowly and lasts for years
b) Has no symptoms
c) Appears suddenly and lasts a short time
d) Is always life-threatening
Rationale: Acute illnesses occur abruptly and are typically short-term, unlike chronic illnesses
which persist over time.
This is not true of chronic illness:
a) Long-term
b) Persistent
c) People usually recover from chronic illness
d) Requires ongoing care
Rationale: Chronic conditions are long-lasting and rarely fully cured; they are managed, not
eliminated.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is:
a) A system that arranges human needs into categories
b) A guide for hospital procedures
c) A list of medical terms
d) A type of psychological test
Rationale: Maslow’s theory prioritizes human needs from basic to self-fulfillment. The other
options are unrelated.
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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is:
a) A law about health insurance
b) A workplace regulation
c) The bill identifying human rights guaranteed to everyone in Canada
d) A federal medical code
Rationale: The Charter defines the fundamental rights and freedoms for all Canadians at every
level of government.
Provincial Human Rights Codes ensure:
a) Voting rights
b) Freedom from discrimination and harassment
c) Tax exemptions
d) Access to healthcare funding
Rationale: Provincial Human Rights Codes protect individuals from discrimination in services
and employment, not voting rights.
Informed consent must include:
a) Nature of treatment, risks, side effects, and consequences of not having it
b) Only doctor’s recommendation
c) Patient reassurance only
d) Verbal agreement only
Rationale: True informed consent requires full understanding of all potential outcomes and
risks, not mere reassurance.
Negligence is:
a) A criminal act with prison time
b) Intentional harm
c) Careless neglect, often resulting in injury
d) A type of consent
Rationale: Negligence involves carelessness that leads to harm; it is typically civil, not criminal.
Assault means:
a) Intentional attempt or threat to touch a person without consent
b) Accidental touch
c) Friendly gesture
d) Miscommunication
Rationale: Assault involves the threat or intent to cause harm without permission — not
accidental or friendly contact.
Personal Support Worker NACC Final
Examination Prep and Practice Questions
2025
Which law ensures that every citizen has access to health care?
a) Canada Health Protection Act
b) Universal Health Policy
c) The Canada Health Act
d) National Medical Services Act
Rationale: The Canada Health Act guarantees access to essential health care for all Canadians.
The other options do not exist as national legislation.
The most pressing cause of health care reform has been:
a) Lack of nurses
b) Rising costs of providing technology, drugs and services
c) Poor patient satisfaction
d) Shortage of hospitals
Rationale: The growing costs of medical technology, treatments, and drugs drive reforms. The
others are contributing factors, not the main cause.
Support services provided through home care DO NOT include:
a) Nursing
b) Physiotherapy
c) Respiratory Therapy
d) Nutrition counseling
Rationale: Respiratory therapy is usually provided in hospital settings. The others are common
home care services.
A holistic approach to health:
a) Focuses on physical symptoms only
b) Takes into account the whole person
c) Deals only with medical treatment
d) Ignores mental health
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Rationale: Holistic health includes physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being — not
just disease treatment.
People with strong emotional health:
a) Cry frequently
b) Show all emotions easily
c) Do not show their emotions easily
d) Avoid emotions completely
Rationale: Emotionally strong people manage feelings with self-control. They acknowledge
emotions but don’t act impulsively on them.
Acute illness:
a) Develops slowly and lasts for years
b) Has no symptoms
c) Appears suddenly and lasts a short time
d) Is always life-threatening
Rationale: Acute illnesses occur abruptly and are typically short-term, unlike chronic illnesses
which persist over time.
This is not true of chronic illness:
a) Long-term
b) Persistent
c) People usually recover from chronic illness
d) Requires ongoing care
Rationale: Chronic conditions are long-lasting and rarely fully cured; they are managed, not
eliminated.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is:
a) A system that arranges human needs into categories
b) A guide for hospital procedures
c) A list of medical terms
d) A type of psychological test
Rationale: Maslow’s theory prioritizes human needs from basic to self-fulfillment. The other
options are unrelated.
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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is:
a) A law about health insurance
b) A workplace regulation
c) The bill identifying human rights guaranteed to everyone in Canada
d) A federal medical code
Rationale: The Charter defines the fundamental rights and freedoms for all Canadians at every
level of government.
Provincial Human Rights Codes ensure:
a) Voting rights
b) Freedom from discrimination and harassment
c) Tax exemptions
d) Access to healthcare funding
Rationale: Provincial Human Rights Codes protect individuals from discrimination in services
and employment, not voting rights.
Informed consent must include:
a) Nature of treatment, risks, side effects, and consequences of not having it
b) Only doctor’s recommendation
c) Patient reassurance only
d) Verbal agreement only
Rationale: True informed consent requires full understanding of all potential outcomes and
risks, not mere reassurance.
Negligence is:
a) A criminal act with prison time
b) Intentional harm
c) Careless neglect, often resulting in injury
d) A type of consent
Rationale: Negligence involves carelessness that leads to harm; it is typically civil, not criminal.
Assault means:
a) Intentional attempt or threat to touch a person without consent
b) Accidental touch
c) Friendly gesture
d) Miscommunication
Rationale: Assault involves the threat or intent to cause harm without permission — not
accidental or friendly contact.
