HHA Patient Rights and Ethics 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Informed consent means the client:
- Agrees without any information
- Understands the care and agrees to it voluntarily (Correct answer)
- Is told what to do by family only
- Signs forms after care is completed
Correct answer: Understands the care and agrees to it voluntarily
Informed consent requires the client to understand and voluntarily agree to care.
Question 2: A client gives the HHA an expensive gift. The appropriate response is to:
- Accept it gladly
- Politely decline and explain agency policy (Correct answer)
- Ask for cash instead
- Keep it a secret
Correct answer: Politely decline and explain agency policy
Accepting gifts can create ethical conflicts and usually violates agency policy.
Question 3: Which is an example of a professional boundary violation?
- Following the care plan
- Borrowing money from a client (Correct answer)
- Reporting changes to the nurse
- Documenting accurately
Correct answer: Borrowing money from a client
Borrowing money from a client is an unethical boundary violation.
Question 4: The HHA disagrees with a client's lifestyle choices. The HHA should:
- Lecture the client to change
- Provide care without imposing personal beliefs (Correct answer)
- Refuse to provide care
- Report the client to authorities
Correct answer: Provide care without imposing personal beliefs
HHAs must provide nonjudgmental care regardless of personal beliefs.
Question 5: HIPAA primarily protects a client's:
- Right to refuse food
- Health information privacy (Correct answer)
- Right to vote
- Property ownership
Correct answer: Health information privacy
HIPAA safeguards the privacy of clients' protected health information.
Question 6: A client asks the HHA to perform a task outside their scope of practice. The HHA should:
- Do it to please the client
- Decline and refer to the supervising nurse (Correct answer)
- Pretend to do it
- Ask another client for help
Correct answer: Decline and refer to the supervising nurse
HHAs must work within their scope and refer tasks beyond it to the nurse.
Question 7: Treating all clients equally regardless of race or religion reflects:
- Negligence
- Nondiscrimination (Correct answer)
- Confidentiality
- Abandonment
Correct answer: Nondiscrimination
Clients have the right to receive care free from discrimination.
HHA Patient Rights and Ethics 3
Informed consent means the client: