PSW (NACC Final Exam) – Questions & Solutions HOLISTIC CARE ✔️Ans - Holistic Care/Health Is Caring For The Whole Person ( Physical, Emotional, Social, Intellectual, Spiritual) A State Of Well- Being In All Dimensions Of One's Life PROFESSIONALISM ✔️Ans - is an approach to work that demonstrates respect for others ,commitment competence and appropriate behavior.PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES ✔️Ans - appropriate limitations on behavior meant to protect the vulnerable client from the caregiver who has access to private knowledge about him or her.EXPLAIN THE REGULATION OF A PSW ✔️Ans - PSW's work under a regulated healthcare provider. You must follow and know the scope of practice. Never act beyond the legal limits of your role.THE REGULATED HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT ✔️Ans - Health regulatory colleges are responsible for ensuring that regulated health professionals provide health services in a safe, professional and ethical manner. This includes, among other things, setting standards of practice for the profession and investigating complaints about members of the profession and, where appropriate, disciplining them. the HPA also lists the tasks that can be delegated to PSW ROLE OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST ✔️Ans - focuses on the rehabilitation and teaches clients skills needed to perform ADLs, designs adaptive equipment for ADLs, they are regulated ROLE OF PHYSICAL THERAPIST ✔️Ans - focuses on rehabilitation, assist clients with muscular-skeletal impairments, focuses on restoring function and preventing disability from illness also they are regulated.ROLE OF RN ✔️Ans - Assesses, makes nursing diagnosis, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care, tends to clients who have unstable health conditions provides direct client care and administers medication supervisors support workers, they are regulated 1 / 3
ROLE OF RPN ✔️Ans - assesses, makes nursing diagnoses, plans, implements and evaluates nursing care, tends to clients who have stable health conditions provides direct client care, administers medications and supervisors support workers they are also regulated UNDERSTAND PROCESS OF DELEGATION OF AN ACT TO A PSW ✔️Ans - The process of delegation of an act to an personal support worker has to follow the five rights of delegation Those five Rights are , The right task , the right circumstances , the right person , the right directions and communication, and the right supervision and evaluation . a nurse is the only one who can delegate to a personal support worker CULTURE ✔️Ans - refers to the characteristics of a group of people, language, values, beliefs, habits and ways of life RELIGION ✔️Ans - relates to spiritual beliefs needs and practices. may promote beliefs and practices related to daily living habits, behaviors relationships with others, diet, healing, days of worship, birth and birth control, medicines and also death.CULTURE AND RELIGION AND HOW IT IMPACTS THE CLIENT ✔️Ans - impacts the client by how healthcare can be performed and given to someone or may give the health service.Maslow's hierarchy of needs ✔️Ans - It is described as a persons basic needs must be met for a person to survive and function. There are five levels and the lower level must be met before the higher need levels are achieved those levels are as follows physical needs, the need for safety, the need for love and belonging, the need for self-esteem, and the need for self- actualization or fulfillment.Assault ✔️Ans - initially attempting to or threatening to touch a person's body without consent, causing the person to fear bodily harm Battery ✔️Ans - the touching of a persons body without the person's consent Slander ✔️Ans - the making of false verbal statements that hurt the reputation of a person 2 / 3
Negligence ✔️Ans - failure to act in the careful and confident manner resulting in harm to a person or damage to property False imprisonment ✔️Ans - an unlawful restraint or restrictions of a person's freedom of movement Harassment ✔️Ans - troubling tormenting offending or worrying a person through one's behavior or comments Autonomy ✔️Ans - also called self determination means having the freedom and choice to make decisions that affect one's life Dependence ✔️Ans - the state of relying on others for support, being unable to manage without help Interdependence ✔️Ans - the state of relying on one another Independence ✔️Ans - The state of not relying on others for control or authority Active listening ✔️Ans - means paying close attention to the clients verbal and nonverbal communication Face the client, make eye contact, lean toward the client, respond to the client, avoid communication barriers Paraphrasing ✔️Ans - restating another persons message in your own words Empathetic listening ✔️Ans - being intuitive to the speakers feelings closed questions ✔️Ans - focuses on information that you need to learn that require a yes or no answer open-ended questions ✔️Ans - Invites the person to share thoughts and feelings or ideas that must be more than a yes or no Clarifying ✔️Ans - helps you make sure you understand what the person's messages
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