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Federal Nursing Home Administrator Exam, Exams of Advanced Education

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Federal Nursing Home Administrator Exam

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Federal Nursing Home Administrator
Exam
1) OBRA asserts some separate committees can be folded into the quality
improvement/assurance committee. Safety, Pharmacy and which committee below
can be added into QA/QI committee? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Infection Control
2) Nursing homes are responsible for obtaining and providing dental care for
residents. Who usually pays for dental services? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ The
resident or a family member
3) A facility is not allowed to charge a resident who is Medicaid and Medicare
eligible except for: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Co-pays
4) You calculate the average percent of occupancy by: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔
Dividing the total census (occupied bed days) by the total number of days, then
multiply by 100
5) Resident's rights should be explained to the resident and or family member: -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Prior to admission
6) In case of an emergency, when no attending or back up physician is available,
the decision as to who will attend to the resident is to be made by the: - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔✔ Administrator
7) Federal law states that facilities must retain menus of food actually served for at
least: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 30 days
8) A resident with a living will and DPOA specified she wants to receive heroic
measures if necessary. Six months later the resident requires CPR, but is now
incompetent and the son request CPR be withheld. What is the right thing to do? -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Provide the CPR
9) A resident asks to see his chart. The doctor tells the nurse not to allow the
resident access to the chart. What do you do? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Tell the
doctor the law gives the resident the right to view the medical records
10) Medical records belong to: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Facility
11) When a resident passes away, the personal funds deposited with the facility
must be given to the resident's estate with a final accounting of the funds within: -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 30 days
12) The suffix "algia" refers to: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Pain
13) Physical restraints must be removed: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Every two
hours
14) Depression is one of many psychological changes related to the aging process.
Others include the following except for: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Hearing loss
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Exam

  1. OBRA asserts some separate committees can be folded into the quality improvement/assurance committee. Safety, Pharmacy and which committee below can be added into QA/QI committee? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Infection Control
  2. Nursing homes are responsible for obtaining and providing dental care for residents. Who usually pays for dental services? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ The resident or a family member
  3. A facility is not allowed to charge a resident who is Medicaid and Medicare eligible except for: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Co-pays
  4. You calculate the average percent of occupancy by: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Dividing the total census (occupied bed days) by the total number of days, then multiply by 100
  5. Resident's rights should be explained to the resident and or family member: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Prior to admission
  6. In case of an emergency, when no attending or back up physician is available, the decision as to who will attend to the resident is to be made by the: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Administrator
  7. Federal law states that facilities must retain menus of food actually served for at least: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 30 days
  8. A resident with a living will and DPOA specified she wants to receive heroic measures if necessary. Six months later the resident requires CPR, but is now incompetent and the son request CPR be withheld. What is the right thing to do? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Provide the CPR
  9. A resident asks to see his chart. The doctor tells the nurse not to allow the resident access to the chart. What do you do? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Tell the doctor the law gives the resident the right to view the medical records
  10. Medical records belong to: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Facility
  11. When a resident passes away, the personal funds deposited with the facility must be given to the resident's estate with a final accounting of the funds within: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 30 days
  12. The suffix "algia" refers to: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Pain
  13. Physical restraints must be removed: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Every two hours
  14. Depression is one of many psychological changes related to the aging process. Others include the following except for: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Hearing loss
  1. "Nosocomal" refers to - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Infection occurring inside the facility (institutionalized)
  2. A capital budget is mostly about: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Equipment and real estate
  3. Current debts are debts that are: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Due within one year
  4. A ledger is a complete listing of: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Accounts payable and receivable
  5. Which resource usually provides the least revenue for a nursing home? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Insurance
  6. Past due accounts should not exceed: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 5%
  7. All of the following are a cash expense except: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Depreciation
  8. A pro forma is primarily - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ A financial statement or prediction
  9. A function of management is controlling, which means: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Measuring outcomes against benchmarks, then responding
  10. OBRA requires every facility to have: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ A governing body - The Omnibus Reconciliation Act
  11. Management by objectives means: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ A system that determines goals and objectives
  12. Policies are: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ General and flexible statements that guid thinking
  13. Procedures are: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Not flexable
  14. Short range (tactical) goals can be accomplished - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ In less than one year
  15. Policies should be developed by the: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Governing body
  16. The charge nurse is considered - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Line level management
  17. McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y discuss individual's: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Employees's attitudes towards work
  18. Decision making requires all of the following except: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Controlling behavior
  19. Public relations has been defined as: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ The management of communications

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ANT ATMOSPHERE - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ANT ATMOSPHERE - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔

  1. Indoor temperatures - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 71 - 81 degrees ferinhight
  2. Disaster plans - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ OBRA requirement for written plan
  3. Life Safety Code - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Reasonably ensure the public protection from fire in public buildings
  4. MSDS - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Information on potentially hazardous material
  5. OSHA - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ federal agency overseeing employee safety
  6. NFPA - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ establishes LSC
  7. Personnal Protective Equipment - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ gloves
  8. Preventative measures - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ time for schedules repairs
  9. Offer HBV - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ within 10 working days
  10. Smoke compartments - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 200 feet or less
  11. Occupant loads for exit requirements: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ one person per 120 sq ft of floor area in sleeping areas and one person per 240 sq ft in treatment areas
  12. Means of Egress Requirements Emergency lighting: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Mandatory and Automatically available not requiring manual intervention for continuous operation when power is interupted
  13. Means of Egress Requirements Exit Marking: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ clearly marked with signs no more than 100 feet from exit
  14. Emergency Power: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Check generator weekly, test under full load for 30 minutes monthly
  15. Handrails at bottom of stairs must be: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ extended parallel to floor for 12 inches
  16. Windows must have opening force requirement: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ of no more than 5 lbs.
  17. Generator should provide for full load for - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 4 hours, under emergency power need
  18. Resident rooms - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ No more than 4 residents per room 80 sq ft per resident in multi-bed rooms

100 sq ft in private room window to outside

  1. OBRA requires housekeeping services necessary to - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ maintain a sanitary, orderly, and clean interior
  2. Exposure Control Plan must be updated - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Annually HUMAN RESOURCES - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔
  3. Bargaining Unit - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Workers identified by NlRB to form a group to unionize
  4. Construct Validity - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Extent to which a tool measures a trait important to job performance
  5. Line management - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Performs personnel functioned, delegated authority to make decisions
  6. Skill Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ identification of attributes required to
  7. Task Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ review of job description
  8. Employee Handbook - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Policies related to work conditions
  9. Career Path - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Avenues for upward mobility within organization
  10. Progressive Discipline - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Use of specific number and type of warnings
  11. Job description - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ list of duties and responsibilities
  12. COLA - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Group of temporary workers
  13. Election for unionization - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Conducted by NLRB
  14. FLSA - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ minimum wage
  15. Halo Effect - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ One trait colors all performance
  16. In-Out migration - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Movements of workers in and out of geographic area
  17. Pool - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Group of temporary workers
  18. Labor Market - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ geographic area of recruitment
  19. Union election - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ NLRB conducts; 50% plus 1 potential bargaining unit members VOTING wins LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (23% - 35 questions) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔
  20. Strategic Planning - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ setting long term goals

The two often have edges of distinction blurred

  1. Actionable - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ conduct giving rise to legal action
  2. Aggrieved party - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ one whose rights invaded or who suffered injury
  3. Burden of proof - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ obligation of person bringing action
  4. Liable - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ written defamation
  5. Slander - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ verbal defamation
  6. Malice - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ intentional doing of wrongful act
  7. Tort - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ a wrong: legal duty owed, breached, and harm occured
  8. Worker Comp: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ responsible for injuries occurring at work
  9. Scope of Employment: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ range of employee activities (resident services by omission or commission)
  10. Governing: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ excersis authority
  11. Advisory: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ not binding
  12. Stewardship: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ accumulation and use of assets
  13. Planning and monitoring: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ goals and progress
  14. Determining Facility Objectives: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ measurable, verifiable, and attainable
  15. Governing Body: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Approval of P & P Approval of budget Selection and Appraisal of Administrator FINANCE (14% - 21 questions) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔
  16. Accounting Equation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Assets = Liabilities + Capital
  17. Accounts payable - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Amounts owed by facility
  18. Balance Sheet - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Statement showing solvency
  19. Solvency - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ the ability of a corporation to meet its long term fixed expenses and to accomplish long-term expansion and growth
  20. General ledger - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Summaries entries in each journal for accounting period
  1. Cost Center - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Organizational unit whose costs are separately accumulated
  2. Accrual - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Record revenue when entered; expenses when incurred
  3. Functional Accounting - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Recording aggregated data for related activities
  4. Aggregated - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined
  5. Contractual Discount - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Uncollectible difference between charges and third party payor agreements
  6. Depreciation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ spreading of cost of capital assests over useful life
  7. Operating Statement - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ total revenues - total expenses =net income (loss)138)
  8. Working Capital - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Current assets - current liabilities
  9. Entity Concept: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ The facility, its records and monies are separate from owners. Ensuring consistency in accounting through full ownership disclosure.
  10. On-Going Concern: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ The facility will continue to operate INDEFINITLEY
  11. Consistency: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ The accounting reports will be prepared in the same way year to year to allow the facility to compare history to determine risks, and allow for clarity
  12. Full Disclosure: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ All information must be shown in financial records accurately reflecting the financial standing of the facility
  13. Cash Accounting: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Expenses are recorded when cash disbursed and revenues are recorded when money received. (Recorded money as it flows in and out of facility. Similar to checkbook) A. Advantage: Simplicity B. Disadvantage: Does not recognize depreciation, accounts receivable, or payable
  14. Time period: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Accounting period (12 months) will be consistent year to year
  15. Objective Evidence: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Accounting records are prepared with documentable records kept by facility (Audit Trail)
  1. Collections - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ policy for deliquent bills. MUST BE CONSISTENT with all payment types; in not facility could be charged with fraud.
  2. Payroll - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ largest expense (50-70% of operational) controlled by administration separate bank account
  3. Residents' Accounts (Trust fund) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Legally must provide Safe for cash and valuables Separate accounting Interest Bearing - amounts over $50.
  4. Cost Per Patient Day = - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Total cost/census days RESIDENT CARE & QUALITY OF LIFE (35% - 52 questions) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔
  5. Nursing Assistant Training - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 75 hour course and exams plus continuing in service
  6. Excess Disability - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Avoidable Dysfunction
  7. PASAAR - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Insures appropriate treatment for MR/MI population
  8. Function - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Focus of Rehab
  9. Pharmacist - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Monthly drug review/Audits
  10. Basis for Menu - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Basic 4 plus recommended daily allowances
  11. Nursing Assistants - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Provide most direct care
  12. OBRA ^87 - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Conditions to participate in Medicare and Medicaid
  13. MDS - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Comprehensive Assessment within 14 days of admission
  14. Physician Extenders - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist or Physician Assistant
  15. Licensed Nurse - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Charge Nurse on each tour of duty
  16. Time between Super and Breakfast - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 14 hours
  17. RN Coverage - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 8 consecutive hours, 7 days per week
  18. Frequency of Activities - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 7 days per week during hours requested
  1. Frequency of Doctor Visits - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Every 30 days for first 90 days, then every 60 days
  2. Access to records - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 24 hours of request
  3. Care Plans - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 21 days after admissions
  4. Required in service for CENA - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 12 hours per year
  5. QA meetings - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Quarterly
  6. Work before NA certified - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 4 months
  7. Interest Bearing accounts - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ trust funds greater than $
  8. Involuntary Transfer Notice - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 30 days
  9. CVA - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Stroke
  10. COPD - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Emphysema, Asthma, Bronchitis
  11. ac - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ before meals
  12. Meal service: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Key to high resident morale. 3-5 meals per day with no more than 14 hours btw evening meal and next breakfast (16 if HS snack)
  13. Dishwashing - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ wash at 150 to 1600 degrees F
  14. Hot food tray - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ leave tray line above 140 degrees F
  15. Cold food - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ leave tray line at less than 41*F
  16. Freezer - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 0* - 20* F
  17. Refrigeration - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ 32* - 45*F
  18. Storage - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ room temperature
  19. RDA - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Recommended Daily Allowance Bread: 4 servings Fruit/veggies 2 cups Meat: 4 oz Milk: 2 cups
  20. Quality Assurance Committe - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ DON, a physician, and 3 other staff members A. Care plan

The nurse newly promoted to director of nurses (DON) insist on giving four RN hours of patient care each day on the Alzheimer's wing in the 175-bed facility. The administrator should - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Seek a new DON The applicant for the administrator position in a facility near a larger teaching hospital who insists that, if hired, as before with his rural facility, he would not let Medicare reimbursement policies affect his case mix - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Is out of touch The newly hired assistant to the administrator insists the organizational chart line btw his position and the Department of Nursing be a solid line. The administrator should - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Be forwarned The medical supplies provider tells the administrator of the facility that has not paid bills the past 3 months, but is now operating under bankruptcy juge's approved plan for restructuring, that no more deliveries will be made until past bills are fully paid. The medical supply provider - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ does not understand how bankruptsy works An administrator who adopts the management-by-walking-around (MBWA) approach by walking through the facility and intently observing weekly has - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Failed to understand MBWA Management-by-walking-around (MBWA) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ style of business management which involves managers wandering around, in an unstructured manner, through the workplace(s), at random, to check with employees, or equipment, about the staus of ongoing work The nursing home administrator who, using the management-by-walking-around (MBWA) technique, succeeds in atually making appropriate corrections on the spot during his rounds - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Doesnt understand (MBWA) The applicant for administrator of the facility insist that he has succcessfuly used democrate leadership to the exclusion of all other leadership styles. The intervier should - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ continue to interview candidates The candidate for administrator said she used a variety of administrative styles, but could't say exactly which she would use in every circumstance. The interviewer should be - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ favorable impress The candidate for administrator indicated that she consistently choose the charismatic style of leadership. This should __________the interviewer. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Alert The cost of providing subacute care to nursing home residents _________ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Is perhaps triple that of more typical patient The nurse supervisor who had just been appointed DON announced at the first department head meeting that she had circulated a memo among the nurses that only formal communications were to be allowed in the nursing department. The administrator should - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Anticipate problems

The department head was not surprised to learn that the employee had only heard his positive comments to the employee and ignored his criticism. The department head's grasp of the communicationn process is - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Appropriate The administrator routinely accepted as his nearly exclusive information source the director of nursing's positive reports on how nursing was going well. The administrator is - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Placing him at risk Periodic shortage of nurses available for nursing home employment _________ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Is likely to remain for the foreseeable future Congress and the Federal rule makers behave as if the facility will run successfully if congress and CMS can write enough rules. They are - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Incorrect When the administrator notices the DON seeks to turn many duties as possible over to housekeeping, the administrator should conclude that the DON is - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Behaving normally The administrator insist that a timely copy of all reports generated within the facility come across her desk before anyone signs them. The administrator is _______ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Not rationalizing her managemnt information system The administrator notices that incident reports are being insufficiently filled out, but does nothing, believing that the situation will likely correct itself. The administrator is ______ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Failing to control effectively Corporate sends a directive its flagship facility administrator, directing the administrator's attention more towards outcome of resident care than cost of resident care during the coming 12 months. Corporate is more concerned with __________than with _________. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Effectiveness/efficiency The long term care sector receiving increased funding and attention from the federal government is the ________________. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Home health care sector The concept that nursing homes should be reimbursed by states for their actual costs was part of the _______ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Hatch Amendment The intense health care cost-shifting efforts among providers such as Medicare, Medicaid and local governments is _____________ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Likely to continue Worried about the level of actual resident care being achieved in the facility, the administrator directs the nurses to spend less time charting and more time focusing on the effeciveness of care being given to residents. The likely result will be ________

  • CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Better resident care, possible increase in deficiency citations The new social worker informs the head of nursing that admissions is all she has time for and that nursing must monitor and document each resident's

The administrator who conducts a national serch for a director of nursing position and interviews 20 candidates from 7 different surrounding states by phone is engaged inthe managerial function of ______ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Staffing In the end, it can be said that the administrator's responsiblity to meet resident care needs and facility needs ae ______ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Both are equal Superior performance depends on taking exceptional care of residents via superior service and _____ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Constant innovations Superior performance for a nursing facility comes through __ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Innovation in ways to serve residents The supeb nursingb facility is supurb by virtue of its ____ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Success in serving the residents Answering the phones and resident call bells with common courtesy and doing things that work are examples of ______ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ A blind flash of the obvious Giving every employee the space to innovate at least a little; listening to residents and acting on their ideas; and wandering around with residents, staff, and suppliers are examples of the different-to-achieve ________ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Common sense, obvious In a facility of 120 beds, the administrator ____personally performs each of the management tasks. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Need not To assure that all the management tasks are successfully accomplished, the administrator of a 120-bed facility will typically divide management into _____ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Three layers A licensed person responsible for formulating and enforcing policies that will be applied to an entire facility is thought of as a/an ____ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Upper-level manager The staff member responsible for reporting to upper-level management and at the same time interacting significantly with several lower-level managers is the ______ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Director of Nursing The staff person for whom both upward and downward communication skills are most neccessary is the ____ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Director of nursing When the director of nursing makes an effective policy decision without consulting the administrator, that impacts all nursing personnel, the administrator should ______ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Be pleased In the typical nursing facility, the decision-making process is _______ establishment of lower, middle, and upper levels of management. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Noticeably more complicated than the simple

Among the following positions the _____has no authority to make decisions for the facility. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Assitant to the Administrator Decisions made by persons on the staff to whom the administrator has deligated line authority are, in the final analysis, regaurded as decisions by ______. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ The administrator When a nurse practitioner, who is more highly qualified than the director of nursing, gives orders in the hallways, the director of nursing should feel _______ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Undermined In times of crisis, corporate representatives, who hold a staff or advisory relationship to their counterparts in the local facility, may expect that their advice as staff be _________ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Acted on as carrying line authority As a generalization, it can be asserted that management success belongs to those who ____ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ success prepared for the future Nursing home administrators should anticipate and successfully prepare for ______ - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Rapid change The long-term care industry entered a period in which _____chang(s) can be expected. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔✔ Rapid and far reaching