Home Health Aide Chapter 1 Exam
Questions and Answers
Hospice - Answers -Offers service to the terminally ill in their homes. Health care
providers work as a team to allow clients to die with dignity in their own homes.
Diversity - Answers -The difference, such as race, religion, and culture, that you will see
in your clients.
Managed Care - Answers -A method of health care delivery that attempts to cut costs
through providing gatekeepers to control access to and use of health care providers,
hospitals, nursing facilities, and other forms of care.
Homemaker - Answers -Performs household duties, such as laundry and cooking, as
well as light housecleaning.
Home Care Aide - Answers -Works with the client with the goal of assisting the client
with independent living under professional supervision.
Home Health Aide - Answers -Assists in general household tasks, as well as those
listed for the home health aide.
Medicaid - Answers -A federal and state assistance program that pays for health care
services for people whose income is below a certain amount.
Terminal Illness - Answers -Illness that is expected to result in death within a limited
time period.
Medicare - Answers -health insurance for the elderly once they are disabled or when
they turn 65.
Nurse Practitioner - Answers -Specialized nurse who can diagnose and prescribe
medicine. May work with children, infants, clients who are pregnant, older adults, and
clients with cancer.
Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) - Answers -A method of classifying patients' illnesses
according to principal diagnosis and treatment requirements, for the purpose of
establishing payment rates
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