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The Home Health Aide Handbook Exam Questions and Answers
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The Home Health Aide Handbook ExamQuestions and Answers
Chronic illness - Answers -a long-term or long-lasting illness
Medicare - Answers -a federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older,
are disabled, or are ill and cannot work
Medicaid - Answers -a state-run medical assistance program for low-income people or
those with disabilities
HMO - Answers -Health Maintenance Organization: a method of health insurance in
which a person has to use a particular doctor except in cases of emergency
PPO - Answers -Preferred Provider Organization: a network of providers that contract to
provide health insurance to a group of people
Chain of command - Answers -the line of authority within an agency
Liability - Answers -a legal term that means someone is responsible for harming
someone else
scope of practice - Answers -defines the tasks that healthcare providers are legally
permitted to do
Compassionate - Answers -being caring, concerned, considerate, empathetic, and
understanding
Empathetic - Answers -being able to identify with the feelings of others
Conscientious - Answers -guided by a sense of right and wrong; principled
Ethics - Answers -the knowledge of right and wrong
Laws - Answers -rules set by the government to maintain order and safety
Advance directives - Answers -legal documents that allow people to choose what
medical care they wish to have if they are unable to make those decisions themselves
abuse - Answers -purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or emotional
pain or injury to someone
, Neglect - Answers -the failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental, or
emotional harm to a person
Negligence - Answers -Actions, or the failure to act or provide the proper care, that
result in unintended injury to a person.
Confidentiality - Answers -the legal and ethical principle of keeping information private
HIPAA - Answers -Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: a federal law that
requires health information be kept private and secure
Combative - Answers -violent or hostile
Nonverbal communication - Answers -communication without the use of words.
Incontinence - Answers -inability to control bladder or bowels
Incident report - Answers -a report that must be completed when an accident, problem,
or other unexpected event occurs during a visit
Homeostasis - Answers -condition in which all the body's systems are working best.
metabolism - Answers -physical and chemical processes that create energy for the body
dilate - Answers -get wider
constrict - Answers -get narrow
Shingles - Answers -non-contagious skin rash caused by the varicella-zoster virus
(VZV), and causes pain, tingling, itching, and a rash of fluid-filled blisters..
Scabies - Answers -a contagious skin infection caused by parasites burrowing into the
skin that results in irritations, rashes, intense itching, and sores
fracture - Answers -broken bone
atrophy - Answers -the decreasing in size and weakening of muscles from lack of use
contracture - Answers -the shortening of a muscle because of inactivity
Osteoporosis - Answers -a condition in which the bones become fragile and break
easily
Dementia - Answers -the serious loss of mental abilities, such as thinking,
remembering, reasoning, and communicating
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