PCA/CFSS WORKER TRAINING STUDY TEST GUIDE – ACCURATELY SOLVED GRADED A+
Maltreatment
Maltreatment means abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation
Abuse
physical, emotional, or sexual
Neglect
the failure to provide for food, clothing, shelter, medical care and/or supervision
Financial Exploitation
is the misuse of a funds, assets or property or the failure to use the vulnerable adult's
financial resources to care for the vulnerable adult, which results in or is likely to result in
detriment to the vulnerable adult
- Yes, the incident needs to be reported to the the Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting
Center(MAARC/CEP) by the physician.
- Yes, the incident needs to be reported to the the Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting
Center(MAARC/CEP) by the staff person accompanying Jane to the appointment.
Jane is 30 years old and lives in an adult foster care facility. Jane is diagnosed with a
traumatic brain injury and insulin dependent diabetes. An adult foster care staff person
brings Jane to see her physician for a routine check-up. During the visit to her physician,
Jane's blood sugar levels are noted to be very high. The physician asks Jane about the high
, blood sugar levels. Jane tells the physician that she ran out of insulin three days ago and
that the person in charge of refilling her prescriptions at the facility said that they were
"working on" getting her some more. The physician asks the staff person accompanying
Jane about Jane not having any insulin, but the staff person has no knowledge.
Yes, the situation should be reported to the the Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting
Center(MAARC/CEP).
Marvel is a 90 year old woman who is living alone since the death of her husband Bill,
approximately one month ago. Bill had managed the finances, done the grocery shopping
and maintained the yard. You have not seen Marvel in over a week and you are concerned
that she may not have the ability to get to the grocery store. Marvel does not have a driver's
license and her children live in other states. No one has picked up her mail and it is starting
to pile up on her front step. Her yard has become overgrown and her plants have died.
Yes, the incident should be reported to the Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting
Center(MAARC/CEP).
A resident's care plan indicates that the resident is not to be left unsupervised on the side
of the bed because of her poor sitting balance. The resident is left sitting on the side of the
bed while the nursing assistant left the room quickly to get a clean towel and washcloth.
The resident falls and sustains a fracture of her humerus.
Yes, the game disk is the property of Robert and the staff person "willfully withheld" the disk
without legal authority.
Robert is 18 years old and lives in an adult foster care home. Robert enjoys playing video
games and owns all of the latest games. One evening while talking with a staff person
named Jeff, Robert says that he sure wishes he could get his video golf game disk back
from the staff person who works on the weekend. Jeff asks Robert some questions and
Robert says that he "loaned" the game disk to a weekend staff person two weeks ago.
Robert tells Jeff that he did not really want to loan the game to the weekend staff person
Maltreatment
Maltreatment means abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation
Abuse
physical, emotional, or sexual
Neglect
the failure to provide for food, clothing, shelter, medical care and/or supervision
Financial Exploitation
is the misuse of a funds, assets or property or the failure to use the vulnerable adult's
financial resources to care for the vulnerable adult, which results in or is likely to result in
detriment to the vulnerable adult
- Yes, the incident needs to be reported to the the Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting
Center(MAARC/CEP) by the physician.
- Yes, the incident needs to be reported to the the Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting
Center(MAARC/CEP) by the staff person accompanying Jane to the appointment.
Jane is 30 years old and lives in an adult foster care facility. Jane is diagnosed with a
traumatic brain injury and insulin dependent diabetes. An adult foster care staff person
brings Jane to see her physician for a routine check-up. During the visit to her physician,
Jane's blood sugar levels are noted to be very high. The physician asks Jane about the high
, blood sugar levels. Jane tells the physician that she ran out of insulin three days ago and
that the person in charge of refilling her prescriptions at the facility said that they were
"working on" getting her some more. The physician asks the staff person accompanying
Jane about Jane not having any insulin, but the staff person has no knowledge.
Yes, the situation should be reported to the the Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting
Center(MAARC/CEP).
Marvel is a 90 year old woman who is living alone since the death of her husband Bill,
approximately one month ago. Bill had managed the finances, done the grocery shopping
and maintained the yard. You have not seen Marvel in over a week and you are concerned
that she may not have the ability to get to the grocery store. Marvel does not have a driver's
license and her children live in other states. No one has picked up her mail and it is starting
to pile up on her front step. Her yard has become overgrown and her plants have died.
Yes, the incident should be reported to the Minnesota Adult Abuse Reporting
Center(MAARC/CEP).
A resident's care plan indicates that the resident is not to be left unsupervised on the side
of the bed because of her poor sitting balance. The resident is left sitting on the side of the
bed while the nursing assistant left the room quickly to get a clean towel and washcloth.
The resident falls and sustains a fracture of her humerus.
Yes, the game disk is the property of Robert and the staff person "willfully withheld" the disk
without legal authority.
Robert is 18 years old and lives in an adult foster care home. Robert enjoys playing video
games and owns all of the latest games. One evening while talking with a staff person
named Jeff, Robert says that he sure wishes he could get his video golf game disk back
from the staff person who works on the weekend. Jeff asks Robert some questions and
Robert says that he "loaned" the game disk to a weekend staff person two weeks ago.
Robert tells Jeff that he did not really want to loan the game to the weekend staff person
