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PSW - FINAL EXAM 2025 | 495 COMPLETEQUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT |
LATEST UPDATE
Holistic Care - ANSWER Considering the whole person. Considering their
physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual dimensions.
Professionalism - ANSWER an approach to work that demonstrates respect for
others, commitment, competence, and appropriate behaviours.
Professional Boundaries - ANSWER Appropriate limitations on behaviour,
meant to protect the vulnerable client from the caregiver who has access to
private knowledge about him or her.
Regulation of a PSW - ANSWER The PSW is an unregulated profession. For an
unregulated care provider there are clearly identified services we provide under
the supervision of the client, family member, regulated health care provider or
employer. There is no legislation to regulate PSW's or an organization of
professional college that governs the role. There is no official code of ethics but
they must adhere to the codes of behaviour from their employer.
Regulated Health Professions Act - ANSWER In Ontario, regulated health
professions are governed under the ______________________, 1991 (RHPA) and
health profession Acts (i.e., Medicine Act, 1991). This legislative framework
establishes health regulatory colleges, which regulate the professions in the public
interest. i.e. the college of nurses.
,occupational therapist - ANSWER Focuses on rehabilitation; teaches clients
skills needed to perform ADLs; designs adaptive equipment for ADLs
physical therapist - ANSWER Focuses on rehabilitation; assist clients with
musculo-skeletal impairments; focuses on restoring function and preventing
disability from illness or injury
Registered Nurse - ANSWER assesses, makes nursing diagnoses, plans,
implements, and evaluates nursing care. Tends to clients with unstable health
conditions; provides direct client care, administers medications, supervises
support workers
licenced practical nurse - ANSWER a health care provider licensed and
regulated by the province or territory to carry out nursing techniques and provide
client care. Known as a ________ in Ontario.
Assault - ANSWER identified in Canada's Criminal Code and can be defined as
intentionally attempting or threatening to touch a client's body without the
client's consent, causing the client to fear bodily harm.
Battery - ANSWER (part of tort law) is the actual intentional touching of a
client's body without the client's consent.
Slander - ANSWER making harmful false statements orally.
negligence - ANSWER when a person fails to act in a careful or competent
manner and thereby harms the client or damages property. It is an unintentional
,wrong, but the person failed to do what a reasonable or careful person would
have done or not done.
false imprisonment - ANSWER the unlawful restraint or restrictions on a
person's freedom of movement. (preventing someone from leaving a facility or
the unnecessary use of restraints.)
harassment - ANSWER troubling, tormenting, offending, or worrying a person
through one's behaviour or comments.
autonomy - ANSWER have the freedom and choice to make decisions that
affect one's life. Also known as self-determination.
dependence - ANSWER The state of relying on others for support; being unable
to manage without help.
interdependence - ANSWER the state of relying on one another
independence - ANSWER the state of not relying on others for control or
authority
culture - ANSWER the characteristics of a group of people, including language,
values, beliefs, customs, habits, ways of life, rules for behaviour, music and
tradition
objective data - ANSWER The data you gather while using your senses. Also
called signs.
, subjective data - ANSWER (symptoms) information reported by a client but not
directly observed by the support worker. When reporting __________, do not
interpret the client's words, quote the client directly. Always be alert to changes in
the client's condition or behaviour
Standard Practices - ANSWER guidelines to prevent the spread of infection
from blood, bodily fluids, secretions, excretions, non-intact skin, and mucous
membranes. Also called Routine Practices or Standard Precautions
Friction - ANSWER the resistance the skin encounters when it rubs against
another surface, such as clothing, bedding or another fold of skin.
Shearing - ANSWER the tearing of skin tissues caused when the skin sticks to a
surface (usually the bed or chair) and deeper tissues move downward, exerting
pressure on the skin. _______ can happen when a client slides down in bed, or is
moved in bed. _____ can be very painful and can lead to serious skin and health
problems.
Body alignment - ANSWER the way in which body parts (head, trunk, arms and
legs) are positioned in relation to one another, whether lying, sitting, or standing.
Also known as posture.
muscular atrophy - ANSWER the decrease in size or wasting away of muscles.
It's a complication from lack of exercise and must be prevented.
Contracture - ANSWER the lack of joint mobility caused by abnormal
shortening of a muscle
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