NCCAP NATIONAL LATEST COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Chain of Command - ✔✔The line in which authority flows from the top executive
down to the ranks of employees and accountability flows up.
✔✔Organizational Chart - ✔✔A visual chart showing the Chain of Command from the
executive director or CEO, through the directors then managers, etc... of the
departments.
✔✔Tag number ftag - ✔✔Federal laws on long term care homes listed in chronological
order by regulation number which pertain to the different areas that are surveyed
according to OBRA legislation.
✔✔Ombudsmen - ✔✔Person appointed by the government to investigate complaints by
residents and report back for further investigation.
✔✔Validity - ✔✔The extent which something is true.
✔✔Reliability - ✔✔Able to be counted on to do a job correctly and do the right thing
✔✔Plan of correction - ✔✔A series of steps to change or eliminate incorrect behavior.
, ✔✔Organizational culture - ✔✔The sum of the mission,vision, values and behavior that
make up the social and pyschological environment of an organization.
✔✔Osha - ✔✔Occupational safety and health administration
✔✔Authority - ✔✔Power an individual or group has over others, that enable them to
carry out a job, but comes with responsibility.
✔✔Msds - ✔✔Material safety data sheet
✔✔Cms - ✔✔Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
✔✔Snf - ✔✔Skilled nursing facility
✔✔Regulation - ✔✔Rule to direct or manage a system or organization based on specific
legislation.
✔✔Life Course Perspective - ✔✔The life course perspective is how one experiences life
events and how society judges their course which is used to better understand the
mental, physical and social health of residents and their needs.
✔✔Life Span - ✔✔The entirety of life from birth to death.
✔✔Cohort Effect - ✔✔Persons born in the same generation experiencing similar life
events and the changes and adaptations. Also how they view themselves as they age.
✔✔Cumulative Disadvantage - ✔✔Early life choices, opportunities and historical events
reflect negatively in the quality of life in old age. Two types are gender inequality and
racial inequality.
✔✔Functional Age - ✔✔Regardless of chronological age, it is the level of activity,
physically, mentally and socially that one lives along with physical aging appearance.
✔✔Wellness - ✔✔A person's health including; physical, intellectual, social, emotional,
vocational and spiritual. Functional aging has three categories; well, somewhat impaired
and frail.
✔✔Adaptive Skills - ✔✔The ability to change the way you do things when an obstacle,
like aging or illness, is making the task difficult.
✔✔Hospice - ✔✔An organization that cares for people physically, emotionally and
mentally, with illnesses in the last 6 months of life.
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Chain of Command - ✔✔The line in which authority flows from the top executive
down to the ranks of employees and accountability flows up.
✔✔Organizational Chart - ✔✔A visual chart showing the Chain of Command from the
executive director or CEO, through the directors then managers, etc... of the
departments.
✔✔Tag number ftag - ✔✔Federal laws on long term care homes listed in chronological
order by regulation number which pertain to the different areas that are surveyed
according to OBRA legislation.
✔✔Ombudsmen - ✔✔Person appointed by the government to investigate complaints by
residents and report back for further investigation.
✔✔Validity - ✔✔The extent which something is true.
✔✔Reliability - ✔✔Able to be counted on to do a job correctly and do the right thing
✔✔Plan of correction - ✔✔A series of steps to change or eliminate incorrect behavior.
, ✔✔Organizational culture - ✔✔The sum of the mission,vision, values and behavior that
make up the social and pyschological environment of an organization.
✔✔Osha - ✔✔Occupational safety and health administration
✔✔Authority - ✔✔Power an individual or group has over others, that enable them to
carry out a job, but comes with responsibility.
✔✔Msds - ✔✔Material safety data sheet
✔✔Cms - ✔✔Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
✔✔Snf - ✔✔Skilled nursing facility
✔✔Regulation - ✔✔Rule to direct or manage a system or organization based on specific
legislation.
✔✔Life Course Perspective - ✔✔The life course perspective is how one experiences life
events and how society judges their course which is used to better understand the
mental, physical and social health of residents and their needs.
✔✔Life Span - ✔✔The entirety of life from birth to death.
✔✔Cohort Effect - ✔✔Persons born in the same generation experiencing similar life
events and the changes and adaptations. Also how they view themselves as they age.
✔✔Cumulative Disadvantage - ✔✔Early life choices, opportunities and historical events
reflect negatively in the quality of life in old age. Two types are gender inequality and
racial inequality.
✔✔Functional Age - ✔✔Regardless of chronological age, it is the level of activity,
physically, mentally and socially that one lives along with physical aging appearance.
✔✔Wellness - ✔✔A person's health including; physical, intellectual, social, emotional,
vocational and spiritual. Functional aging has three categories; well, somewhat impaired
and frail.
✔✔Adaptive Skills - ✔✔The ability to change the way you do things when an obstacle,
like aging or illness, is making the task difficult.
✔✔Hospice - ✔✔An organization that cares for people physically, emotionally and
mentally, with illnesses in the last 6 months of life.
