Covers all 14 Vocational Learning Outcomes from the Ontario Personal Support Worker Program Standard — the common curriculum every approved PSW program in the province follows
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Personal Support Worker is not a regulated or licensed title in Ontario — there is no College of Personal Support Workers and no single government body administers a PSW licensing exam, unlike Registered Nurses and Registered Practical Nurses, who are regulated by the College of Nurses of Ontario under the Regulated Health Professions Act.
What every approved PSW program in the province does share is the Ontario Personal Support Worker Program Standard (Ministry of Colleges and Universities, January 2022) — a minimum 660-hour curriculum (330 hours theory, 330 hours practical placement) built around 14 Vocational Learning Outcomes, taught identically whether the program is delivered by a College of Applied Arts and Technology, a Private Career College, or a District School Board. Many private career colleges additionally use the NACC (National Association of Career Colleges) Final Theory Exam — commonly reported as 200 multiple-choice questions, closed-book, computer-graded, with a 2.5-hour time limit and a 65% minimum passing grade — as their standardized final assessment against that same curriculum. Public college (CAAT) programs typically set their own final exam instead, often at a 60% passing mark.
ExamHub's free PSW practice quiz has 292 original questions across all 14 Vocational Learning Outcomes, checked against the Occupational Health and Safety Act, the Retirement Homes Act 2010, the Long-Term Care Homes Act 2007, the Mental Health Act, the Regulated Health Professions Act 1991, the Home Care and Community Services Act 1994, the Health Care Consent Act 1996, the Substitute Decisions Act 1992, PHIPA, PIPEDA, the Ontario Human Rights Code, and WHMIS.
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Why: Unlike RNs and RPNs, who are regulated by the College of Nurses of Ontario under the RHPA, PSW is not a regulated or licensed title in Ontario — there is no college and no government licensing exam for it.
Why: Section 131 of the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007 restricts PSWs from administering medication to LTC residents, with a narrow exception for a permitted topical medication applied under s.131(4) by a member of the registered nursing staff.
Why: Person-centred care respects a capable client's right to make their own choices, including declining a task, while still documenting the refusal and offering the service again later.
Why: For an unresponsive person not breathing normally, the priority is activating emergency response and beginning CPR promptly, since early CPR significantly improves survival outcomes.
Why: A PSW is expected to respond respectfully to a client's inquiry about MAID and direct them to the appropriate regulated professional, since a PSW must never personally administer, arrange, or advise on MAID.
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No. Unlike Registered Nurses and Registered Practical Nurses, who are regulated by the College of Nurses of Ontario under the Regulated Health Professions Act, there is no College of Personal Support Workers and no single government licensing exam for the PSW title. What every approved program does share is the Ontario Personal Support Worker Program Standard (Ministry of Colleges and Universities, January 2022) — a common curriculum of 14 Vocational Learning Outcomes taught across colleges, private career colleges, and district school board programs alike.
It's the standardized final exam many private career colleges use, since their curriculum is built on the same Program Standard. It's commonly reported as 200 multiple-choice questions, closed-book, computer-graded, with a 2.5-hour time limit and a 65% minimum passing grade, and up to 3 attempts. It is not a government exam — public college (CAAT) PSW programs set their own final exams instead, typically with a 60% theory passing mark.
The Program Standard sets a minimum of 660 hours: 330 hours of theory and 330 hours of practical training and clinical placement, regardless of whether the program is delivered by a college, a private career college, or a district school board.
All 14 Vocational Learning Outcomes from the Ontario PSW Program Standard: PSW role and legislation, professional accountability, the interprofessional team, ethics and person-centred care, therapeutic communication, observation and documentation, safety and infection prevention and control, body systems and common alterations, activities of daily living and mobility, assisting with medication, household management and caregiver support, abuse and neglect reporting, palliative and end-of-life care, and mental health, cognition, and dementia care.
"All/none of the above" answer choices break down once options are shuffled and rarely reflect how a real scenario-based exam question is written. ExamHub's bank uses exactly one best answer among four distinct options for every question, matching the style described for the NACC exam.
No. ExamHub is an independent, free study resource and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by NACC, the Ministry of Colleges and Universities, or any specific college or program. Every question is original — written fresh from the 2022 Ontario PSW Program Standard's 14 Vocational Learning Outcomes and the governing legislation it cites, never copied from any other practice-test site — and checked for factual accuracy against those primary sources.