Home Health Aide Practice Test

Home Health Aide Practice Test Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) When giving a bed bath, how often should the water be changed?

• as often as needed to have warm, clean water at all times
• just once
• only after washing the perineal area
• only after washing the front half of the patient - Correct

Answers ✅A) as often as needed to have warm, clean water at all times Which of the following items is used in the prevention and treatment of bedsores or pressure sores?

• rubber sheets
• air mattress
• emesis basin
• arm restraints - Correct Answers ✅B) air mattress

Proper feeding techniques include:

• Just one spoonful per bite
• Feed the patient slowly and make sure all food is

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Home Health Aide Practice Test Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025)

• Feed the patient while laying flat on the bed
• Allow the spoon to go to the back of the tongue - Correct

Answers ✅B) Feed the patient slowly and make sure all food is swallowed If a client is wearing anti-embolism stocking, what would be an important thing to assess for?

• Ultrasound for deep vein thrombosis
• Tingling or lack of sensation
• Bounding Pulses - Correct Answers ✅B) Tingling or lack

of sensation When performing these health skills on a client it is always

important to:

• Have consent from the client
• Wash your hands before and after
• Explain exactly what you are doing
• All of the above - Correct Answers ✅D) All of the above

What is not a sign or symptom of dehydration?

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Home Health Aide Practice Test Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025)

• Light-colored and diluted urine
• Weakness and thirst
• Dried mucous membranes
• Rapid pulse and low blood pressure - Correct Answers

✅A) Light-colored and diluted urine Which of the following is the most appropriate practice to promote good skin care in the elderly?

• keep the skin clean and well moisturized
• apply alcohol to moist areas of the skin
• wash daily with scented soaps
• all of the above - Correct Answers ✅A) keep the skin

clean and well moisturized When taking a client's pulse, you should take it for how long?

• about 15 seconds
• one minute
• 30 seconds
• two minutes or more - Correct Answers ✅B) one minute 3 / 4

Home Health Aide Practice Test Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Mr. Smith, a client with dementia, has become very agitated.Which of the following suggestions would be helpful?

• stay calm
• offer diversion and/or entertainment
• be agreeable
• all of the above - Correct Answers ✅D) all of the above

In giving foot care to a diabetic client, the home health aide should not do which of the following?

• clean under the toenails
• cut the toenails
• soak the feet for more than 5 minutes in a basin of warm

water

• put lotion on the feet after drying them - Correct

Answers ✅B) cut the toenails Primary symptom for a urinary tract infections (UTI) is?

• yellowing of the skin
• pain or burning during urination
• high urination output
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