The Home Health Aide Handbook Exam Questions All Answers 100% Verified
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Course
Home health aide
Institution
Home Health Aide
Chronic illness - ANS a long-term or long-lasting illness
Medicare - ANS a federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, are disabled, or are ill and cannot work
Medicaid - ANS a state-run medical assistance program for low-income people or those wit...
The Home Health Aide Handbook Exam
Questions All Answers 100% Verified
Chronic illness - ANS a long-term or long-lasting illness
Medicare - ANS a federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, are
disabled, or are ill and cannot work
Medicaid - ANS a state-run medical assistance program for low-income people or those
with disabilities
HMO - ANS Health Maintenance Organization: a method of health insurance in which a
person has to use a particular doctor except in cases of emergency
PPO - ANS Preferred Provider Organization: a network of providers that contract to provide
health insurance to a group of people
Chain of command - ANS the line of authority within an agency
Liability - ANS a legal term that means someone is responsible for harming someone else
scope of practice - ANS defines the tasks that healthcare providers are legally permitted to
do
Compassionate - ANS being caring, concerned, considerate, empathetic, and
understanding
Empathetic - ANS being able to identify with the feelings of others
Conscientious - ANS guided by a sense of right and wrong; principled
Ethics - ANS the knowledge of right and wrong
Laws - ANS rules set by the government to maintain order and safety
Advance directives - ANS legal documents that allow people to choose what medical care
they wish to have if they are unable to make those decisions themselves
, abuse - ANS purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or emotional pain or
injury to someone
Neglect - ANS the failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental, or
emotional harm to a person
Negligence - ANS Actions, or the failure to act or provide the proper care, that result in
unintended injury to a person.
Confidentiality - ANS the legal and ethical principle of keeping information private
HIPAA - ANS Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: a federal law that
requires health information be kept private and secure
Combative - ANS violent or hostile
Nonverbal communication - ANS communication without the use of words.
Incontinence - ANS inability to control bladder or bowels
Incident report - ANS a report that must be completed when an accident, problem, or other
unexpected event occurs during a visit
Homeostasis - ANS condition in which all the body's systems are working best.
metabolism - ANS physical and chemical processes that create energy for the body
dilate - ANS get wider
constrict - ANS get narrow
Shingles - ANS non-contagious skin rash caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), and
causes pain, tingling, itching, and a rash of fluid-filled blisters..
Scabies - ANS a contagious skin infection caused by parasites burrowing into the skin that
results in irritations, rashes, intense itching, and sores
fracture - ANS broken bone
atrophy - ANS the decreasing in size and weakening of muscles from lack of use
contracture - ANS the shortening of a muscle because of inactivity
Osteoporosis - ANS a condition in which the bones become fragile and break easily
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