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Home Health Aide Exam Questions and
Answers

Which member of the care team diagnoses disease and prescribes treatment? -
Answers -Physician (MD)

Which of the following care team members are licensed professionals who may assign
tasks to home health aides? - Answers -Nurses, PTs, OTs

Who does the care team revolve around? - Answers -The client and his/her condition,
treatment, and progress

If an activity is not listed on the care plan, what should a HHA do? - Answers -The HHA
should not perform the activity if it's not listed on the care plan

Why is reporting a client's changes and problems to the supervisor a very important role
of the HHA? - Answers -The care plan must be updated as the client's condition
changes

What is one typical task that a HHA performs? - Answers -Giving skin care

What task is considered outside the scope of practice for an HHA? - Answers -Inserting
tubes into a client's body

What's one federal regulation that applies to HHAs? - Answers -HHAs must complete at
least 75 hours of training and/or they must pass a competency evaluation before they
begin working

What's an example of a common policy at a home health agency? - Answers -HHAs
must follow the client's care plan

What does a professional relationship between an HHA and a client include? - Answers
-Keeping client informational confidential

What's would be the best response by a HHA if a client purchases them a gift? -
Answers -The HHA should refuse the gift but thank the client for thinking of her

What's an example of a HHA behaving professionally with an employer? - Answers -
Documenting carefully

, What's the best type of jewelry for a HHA to wear to work? - Answers -A waterproof
watch

What does the term "empathy" mean? - Answers -Empathy means being able to identify
with and enter into the feelings of others.

What's one responsibility of an employer regarding a HHA? - Answers -Employers must
provide initial training and continuing in-service training

Who is the most important person on the healthcare team? - Answers -The client

What is the chain of command? - Answers -The line of authority in an agency

___ has to do with the knowledge of right and wrong - Answers -Ethics

An example of ethical behavior by a HHA is _____ - Answers -Protecting a client's
privacy

What term means harming a person physically, mentally, or emotionally by failing to
provide needed care? - Answers -Neglect

What must a HHA do if he suspects that a client is being abused? - Answers -The HHA
should report immediately to his supervisor

What term means to steal, take advantage of, or improperly use the money, property, or
other assets of another person? - Answers -Financial abuse

What's an example of sexual abuse? - Answers -Rubbing up against a client
inappropriately

Threatening to harm a client if her tells another caregiver about a problem is an
example of what type of abuse? - Answers -Psychological abuse

For home health aides, confidentiality means.... - Answers -keeping private things
private

with whom may an HHA share a client's medical information? - Answers -With other
members of the care team

What's a term for a legal document that designates what kind of care a person wants if
he is unable to make that decision himself? - Answers -Advance directive

what's an example of an advance directive? - Answers -Durable Power of Attorney for
Health Care

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