Home Health Aide Certification Practice Test #1

Health care workers should wash their hands:

At the beginning of the shift.

Between every procedure or client.

When necessary during the shift.

At least once during each shift.

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After Mrs. Thompson dies, her husband wishes to share his feelings and emotions. The aide should:

Tell him to speak to the aide's supervisor.

Listen to him and comfort him.

Change the subject.

Tell him he should see a counselor.

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Module: Learning and Test Taking Alcohol or sleeping pills before sleep will:

Increase learning because you'll fall asleep faster

Increase learning because they have learning chemicals

Decrease learning because they have "stupid" chemicals

Decrease learning because they must be removed before the brain can spend energy/time to create long term memories.

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(Learning and Test Taking)
They are treated as toxins and must be removed before the brain will spend time creating memories.

Mr Jones is on a low-cholestoral diet. This means that he should not eat:

Pizza

Steak

Rice

Peanut butter

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Module: Introduction to Gerontology. Exercise is important for the elderly because:

It slows muscle atrophy (shrinkage)

It increases balance

It helps with breathing

It slows muscle atrophy and increases balance and helps with breathing

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Module: Infection and Infection Control. Hospitals:

Help the ill

Help return people to health

Spread infections

Hospitals do all of these (provided options).

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Another term for heart attack is:

Myocardial infarction.

Pulmonary embolism.

Schema.

Cerebrovascular accident.

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Which of the following may be an early warning sign of cancer?

A loss of hearing.

A sudden increase in weight.

Difficulty in bending a joint.

A sore that does not heal.

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Module: Infection and Infection Control. The basic types of pathogens include:

Bacteria, viruses, cancers, rodents

Bacteria, viruses, fungi, cancers

Bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites

Bacteria, viruses, fungi, rodents

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Module: Infection and Infection Control Microbes are:

Everywhere

Are the most numerous life form on the planet

Are very small

All the provided options are correct

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Module: Introduction to Communications. Non-verbal communication can provide up to:

30% of typical communication

60% of typical communication

90% of typical communication

Is not communication

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A routine urine specimen should be collected:

When the client first awakens.

Anytime.

Before a meal.

At 7:00 am.

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If a client complains of a burning, tingling skin area, the aide should first:

Keep an eye on the area for a few days.

Rub the area well with lotion.

Use cornstarch on the area.

Report the complaint to a licensed nurse.

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Module: Health Care Systems. The first principle of health care is:

Do good and heal

Love your neighbour as yourself

Do no harm

Do as you are told to do

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Module: Body Mechanics and Lifts. Making a stable centre of gravity means:

Keeping the centre of gravity low

Keeping your back straight

Bend at knees and hips

Low centre, straight back and bend with knees and hips

Correct! Wrong!

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The reason for covering a burn with a clean cloth before going to the hospital for treatment is to:

Keep the area free of germs.

Relieve the pain.

Keep the victim from seeing the burn.

Prevent the victim from putting something harmful on the burn.

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A client accuses a home health aide os taking ten dollars without permission. The aide has not taken the money but the client refuses to believe her. What should the health aide do?

Notify the health aide's supervisor.

Ask the client why the aide is being accused.

Ask other aides who care for the client if they took the ten dollars.

Offer to give the client ten dollars.

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Module: Psychological Aspects of Health Abuse may be:

Financial, emotional or physical

Structural, levels 4 and 5

Always happens – it’s part of dealing with uncertainty

Never happens and shouldn’t concern the caregiver

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