Abuse Awareness
End of Life Care
Pain
Starting Your Career as a PSW
100
Which of the following is a sign of emotional abuse?
a. Isolation from family and friends.
b. Bills that are not paid.
c. Taking the older adult to the doctor.
d. Pressure sores.
a. Isolation from family and friends
100
A place where palliative care is given and does not cost families any monetary amount to stay.
What is hospice?
100
This four-letter term describes the unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.
What is pain?
100
Unlike a résumé, which is typically one to two pages and tailored to a job, this longer, more comprehensive document details your entire academic and professional history.
What is a curriculum vitae?
200
You suspect that a child is being abused. What should you do?
a. Report your concerns to your supervisor
b. Tell your best friend.
c. Tell the child's parents.
d. Report your concerns to the kids help phone.
Report your concerns to your supervisor
200
The process of moving from deep sorrow to healing, acceptance and recovery from loss, or emotional response to loss or death.
What is grief?
200
Pain that is felt when the limb is no longer attached to the body.
What is Phantom Pain?
200
The employer's chance to get to know and evaluate you.
What is the interview process?
300
From the Criminal Code to child protection legislation and long-term care acts, these types of laws exist in every province to defend vulnerable people from mistreatment.
What are laws that protect people from abuse?
300
This four-letter term describes the unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.
What is pain?
300
Pain is not purely physical; it is shaped by a person’s previous experiences, emotional state, sleep quality, focus, interpretation of pain, social support, cultural beliefs, and age.
What are factors that affect pain?
300
This organization promotes standards, offers member certification, and works to elevate the status of PSWs within Ontario’s healthcare system.
What is the Ontario Personal Support Workers Association?
400
Emotional,Intimate Partner, Physical, Financial, Sexual: these are general categories for this.
What are types of abuse?
400
Denial>Anger>Depression>Bargaining>Acceptance
What is Kubler-Ross Grief Cycle?
400
Pain that is felt away from the site of tissue damage.
What is Referred Pain?
400
When doing this type of PSW work, it's wise to review employment agreements carefully, seek legal advice on contracts, and ensure you have liability insurance.
What is working privately as a PSW?
500
Tension-Building, Abusive Phase, Honeymoon Phase
What are Cycles of Abuse- Behaviours to Recognize for Each Stage?
500
I have the right to:
- be treated as a living human being until I die.
- maintain a sense of hopefulness, however changing its focus may be.
- express my feelings and emotions about my approaching death in my own way.
- participate in decisions concerning my care.
- not to die alone.
- be free from pain...
What is the Dying Person's Bill of Rights?
500
This mnemonic helps healthcare providers evaluate pain by asking about Provoking Cause, Quality, Region/Radiation, Severity, Timing, and Understanding the patient’s perspective.
What is understanding the signs and symptoms of pain using PQRSTU?
500
This organization, established under a 2021 Act, began voluntary registration of personal support workers on December 1, 2024 to publicly register, set standards, and enforce a Code of Ethics for PSWs in Ontario.
What is the Health and Supportive Care Providers Oversight Authority (HSCPOA)