UPDATED EXAMS TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔OT - ✔✔Helps residents learn to adapt to disabilities. May help train residents to
perform daily living.
✔✔Speech-language pathologist - ✔✔Identifies communication disorders, addresses
factors involved in recovery, and develops a plan of care to meet recovery goals.
Teaches exercises to help the resident improve or overcome speech problems.
✔✔Registered Dietitian - ✔✔Creates diets for residents with special needs. Special
diets can improve health and help manage illness.
✔✔Medical Social Worker - ✔✔Determines residents' needs and helps get them
support services, such as counseling or financial assistance. May help residents obtain
clothing and personal items if the family is not involved or does not visit often.
✔✔Activities Director - ✔✔Plans activities for residents to help them socialize and stay
active. These activities are meant to improve and maintain residents wellbeing and to
prevent further complications from illness or disability.
✔✔Resident - ✔✔Important member of the care team. Has the right to make decisions
about his or her own care. Helps plan care and makes choices.
✔✔Chain of command - ✔✔Describes the line of authority and helps make sure than
resident get proper health care.
✔✔Liability - ✔✔Means that someone can be help responsible for harming someone
else.
, ✔✔Scope of practice - ✔✔Defines the tasks that healthcare providers are allowed to do
and how to do them correctly.
✔✔Care plan - ✔✔Developed to help achieve the goals of care.
✔✔Policy - ✔✔A course of action that should be taken every time a certain situation
occurs.
✔✔Procedure - ✔✔A method, or way, of doing something.
✔✔Professionalism - ✔✔Behaving properly when on the job. Includes dressing
appropriately and speaking well, being on time, completing tasks, and reporting to the
nurse.
✔✔Compassionate - ✔✔Being caring, concerned, empathetic, and understanding.
✔✔Empathy - ✔✔Identifying with the feelings of others.
✔✔Sympathy - ✔✔Sharing in the feelings and difficulties of others.
✔✔Tactful - ✔✔Showing sensitivity and having a sense of what is appropriate when
dealing with others.
✔✔Conscientious - ✔✔Guided by a sense of right and wrong.
✔✔Ethics - ✔✔Knowledge of right and wrong.
✔✔Laws - ✔✔Rules set by the government to help people live peacefully together and
to ensure order and safety.
✔✔OBRA - ✔✔Law passed in 1987 requiring that Nurse Aide Training and Competency
Evaluation Program (NATCEP) set minimum standards for nursing assistant training.
✔✔Cite - ✔✔To find a problem through a survey.
✔✔Residents Rights - ✔✔Relates to how residents must be treated while living in a
facility.
✔✔Informed consent - ✔✔The process in which a person, with the help of a doctor,
makes informed decisions about his or her health care.
✔✔Abuse - ✔✔Purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or emotional pain
or injury to someone.