Chapter One Flashcards
True or false: Most older adults have a serious illness.
False
True or false: Most support work with mothers and newborns takes place in the home.
TRUE
Unregulated professions have no offical requirements for education.
TRUE
True or false: Discretion means keeping private information to yourself.
FALSE
It is okay to discuss your personal problems with a client you have been working with for a long time.
FALSE
The defintion of compassionate care is treating people with respect.
True
Any amount of perfume can cause breathing problems for some clients.
True
Staff members who work together to provide health care for clients are members of the health care system.
True
The support worker can maintain a professional appearance by:
A. Wearing fashionable jewellery such as a neckless or bracelet.
B. Having fingernails professionally manicured and polished.
C. Wearing a clean, pressed, and mended uniform each day.
D. Using a lightly sented perfume
C. Wearing a clean, pressed, and mended uniform each day.
A support worker is considered to be:
A. An unregulated care provide
B. An unregulated nurse
C. A certificed support worker
D. A regulated care provider
A. An unregulated care provide
A support workers scope of practice refers to:
A. Skills that the employer wants performed
B. Amount of practice that is needed to perform a skill safely
C. Legal extent of the role of a support worker
D. Amount of time it takes to perform a skill
C. Legal extent of the role of a support worker
Primary care nurse:
A. Performs only the basic care a client needs
B. Cares for clients in a primary or grade school setting
C. Primarily works durign the week and not on weekends
D. Is responsible for the total and ongoing care of a client.
D. Is responsible for the total and ongoing care of a client.
The ultimate goal of support work is to:
A. Make a person get better
B. Improve the clients quality of life
C. Never leave the clients side
D. Do what the nurses tell you to do
B. Improve the clients quality of life
An example of discretion would be:
A. Speaking only to an appropriate person about a client
B. Refraining from using the clients’ names when talking about them in the lunchroom
C. Speaking to the client’s family and friends about the care the client recieves
D. Talking to your coworker about a client while you are making beds
A. Speaking only to an appropriate person about a client
Amy is a support worker who has just graduated from school. She plans on wearing her engagement ring to work once she is hired. What would you advise her about this?
A. She will never get a job if she wears her ring.
B. She has only a small diamond in her ring, so it would be okay to wear it.
C. She would not wear it around her supervisor
D. Her ring can scratch a client, so she should not wear it while providing care.
D. Her ring can scratch a client, so she should not wear it while providing care.
