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As a home health care aide you are able to reinforce a dressing true or false? - Answers
-True
As a home health care aide you are able to, apply a hot pack true or false! - Answers -
False
As a home health care aide you are able to give a patient an enema true or false? -
Answers -False
As a home health care aide you are able to administer medication true or false ? -
Answers -False
As a home health care aide you are able to change sterile dressing true or false? -
Answers -False
As a home health care aide you are able to assist with a colostomy bag true or false ? -
Answers -True
As a home health care aide you are able to give a rectal suppository true or false? -
Answers -False
As a home health care aide you are able to give a tubal feeding true or false? - Answers
-False
As a home health care aide you are able to give insulin true or false ? - Answers -False
As a home health care aide you are able to cut patient's nails true or false? - Answers -
False
As a home health care aide you work as part of a health care team true or false ? -
Answers -True
When you work in the home as a home health care aide you will be working under
who's supervision? - Answers -Professional Supervisor
As a home health care aide your responsibility is ? - Answers -To only complete tasks
that the RN or therapist assigns you to do.
, As a home health care aide communication is key what are some ways of
communicating with patient. - Answers -1: In the home it is important to be a good
listener.
2:Always tell the Pt what your going to do before starting any procedure.
3: There are different ways of to communicate besides talking.
4: Body language is also a way of communicating.
As a home health care aide what are some Communication skills that are important ? -
Answers -Listen.
Be courteous.
Be in tact.
Body language is ? - Answers -A way of communicating feelings by using the body
,facial expressions and the eyes.
Aide care for a conscious patient should be preceded by ? - Answers -Giving an
explanation of what is going to be done.
Miss Ferris, home health aide ,is assigned to care for Mr.Conway . Miss Ferris notices
that she feels very angry when she is with Mr.Conway.What should Miss Ferris do
because she feels this ways? - Answers -Talk with the agency supervisor about the
situation.
A patient accusses a home health aide of stealing five dollars. The aide has not taken
the patient's money ,but the patient does not believe this. What should the aide do? -
Answers -Notify the agency supervisor.
True or false :If you do not chart a task that you did for a patient ,legally , it was not
done. - Answers -True
True or False : If the patient has a new area of skin breakdown, and the nurse is coming
in two days, you do not need to report the skin breakdown to your supervisor. - Answers
-False
True or False : A rapid pulse and shortness of breathe in a patient usually indicates the
patient is excited and does not need to be reported. - Answers -False
The patient tells you he has not moved his bowels in three days. What should you do ? -
Answers -Report it to the nursing supervisor.
Which of these actions is the home health aide permitted to take in relation to drug
administration ? - Answers -Recording and reporting the patient's reaction to the
medication.
When a patient complaints of pain, what should the home health aide's do first? -
Answers -Ask the patient to describe the pain.
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