Home Health Aide Final Exam Study Guide Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Define Hospice Care - Correct Answers ✅Care given in homes or facilities for people who have 6 months or less to live.What is scope of practice? - Correct Answers ✅A legal document that states what a HHA can and cannot do under NY state health rules and regulations.What does HIPPA stand for? - Correct Answers ✅Health insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Name 3 typical tasks given to the Home Health Aide: -
Correct Answers ✅1. Feeding 2.Bathing 3.Dressing What does OSHA stand for? - Correct Answers ✅Occupational Safety and Health Administration What is a HHA's chain of command?(The line of authority through an agency or facility) - Correct Answers ✅HHA --> Supervisor/nurse --> Doctor
Name 4 personal qualities an HHA MUST have: - Correct
Answers ✅1. Compassion 2. Empathy 3. Sympathy 4.Honesty 1 / 3
Home Health Aide Final Exam Study Guide Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) What does PHI stand for and how does an HHA implement it?
- Correct Answers ✅Protected Health Information
You can only give information to EMS or health care team.What is standard precaution? - Correct Answers ✅Treating all patients as if they have an infectious illness.What is transmission-based precaution? - Correct Answers ✅Treating the infected with certain diseases in addition to standard precaution.
Name 3 forms of transmission based precaution: - Correct
Answers ✅1. Airborne Precaution 2. Droplet Precaution 3.Contact Precaution
Define Airborne precaution: - Correct Answers ✅Pathogens
that can be transmitted through the air. For example, COVID- 19, Chickenpox, Tuberculosis.
Define Droplet Precaution: - Correct Answers ✅Diseases
that are spread by droplets in the air. For example, coughing, sneezing, laughing, talking etc; (Flu) 2 / 3
Home Health Aide Final Exam Study Guide Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025)
Define Contact Precaution: - Correct Answers ✅The spread
of an infection by direct contact with a person or object. (Pink eye)
Name the 6 links in the chain of infection: - Correct
Answers ✅1. Causative Agent 2. Reservoir 3. Portal of exit
- Mode of transmission 5. Portal of entry 6. Susceptible Host
Define Link 1: Causative Agent - Correct Answers ✅What
causes disease/infection? Bacteria , Viruses , Fungi
Define Link 2: Reservoir - Correct Answers ✅Where does it
stay? Lungs, blood, large intestine
Define Link 3: Portal of Exit - Correct Answers ✅How does
it exit? Lungs, blood, large Intestine
Define Link 4: Mode of Transmission - Correct Answers
✅How is it transmitted? Contact, droplet, airborne
Define Link 5: Portal of Entry - Correct Answers ✅How does
it enter? Body opening, nose, mouth, eyes, mucous membrane
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