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Home Health Aide HOSA Sample Questions and Answers
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Home Health Aide HOSA SampleQuestions and Answers
Which one of the following is a routine responsible of a home health aide?
a. Providing respite care for the wife of a client with dementia
b. Picking up a client's prescription at the drugstore
c. Grocery shopping for the family
d. Washing the windows of the home - Answers -a
One of your clients is turning 90 next week, and his family has invited you to attend his
birthday party. What should you do?
a. Accept the invitation, and take a card or a gift to the party
b.Decline the invitation, but give the client a card or gift during your next scheduled visit
c. Decline the invitation after thanking the family for inviting you.
d. Accept the invitation, but avoid bringing a card of gift to the party. - Answers -c
You are scheduled to work today, but the weather is beautiful and your best friend is
begging you to take the day off and go to the beach with her. What should you do?
a. Ask your friend if she would be willing to go with you in the afternoon. You will take
care of all your scheduled clients in the morning, and then you will be free to go.
b. Call the case manager on your way to the beach and tell her that you will not be able
to visit your clients today. This will allow the case manager to find another aide to cover
for you.
c. Tell your friend you are sorry, but you cannot go to the beach today.
d. Call each of the clients who you are scheduled to visit and ask them if it would be
okay if you came tomorrow instead - Answers -c
Why is documentation a very important responsibility of the home health aide?
a. Documentation is the main way that the members of the home health care team
communicate with each other about the care given to the client and the client's
condition, and the home health aide has the most frequent contact with the client.
b. Documentation provides information that is used to determine if a client is recovering
or getting worse.
c. Documentation of all care provided is needed to justify continued payment for home
care services
d. All of the above - Answers -d
Peggy is a home health aide. Today, while Peggy is helping a client, her son's teacher
calls Peggy on her cell phone to tell her that her son has had an accident on the
playground, and he needs to be picked up. What should Peggy do?
a. Tell the client that she has a family emergency and she has to leave
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