WI NHA State Exam 2026 Question
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Using Previously Tested Content
• Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber -✓✓A person who has been
granted a certificate to issue prescriptino orders.
• Authorized prescriber -✓✓A person licensed in this state to prescribe
medications, treatments, or rehabilitative therapies.
• Department -✓✓Wisconsin Department of Health Services
• Developmental Disability -✓✓Mental retardation or a related
condtion, such as cerbral palsy, epilepsy or autism, but excluding mental
illness and infirmities of aging (which is manifested before the ind.
reaches age 22, likely to continue indeinitely, and results in substantial
functiona limitations in 3 or more of major life activities.
• Major life activities include.... -✓✓self-care, understanding and use of
language, learning, mobility, self-direction, and capacity for indpendent
living
• Dietitian means... -✓✓a person who is certified under statues 448.78,
licensed or certified as a dietitian in another state.
,• Facility means... -✓✓a nursing home subject to the requirements of
chapter DHS 132
• Full Time means... -✓✓at least 37.5 hours each week devoted to
facility business.
• IMD means... -✓✓Institution for mental diseases-- a facility that meets
the defention of an institution for mental disesease under 42 CFR
435.1009
• Intenstive skilled nursing care means... -✓✓care requiring specialized
nrusng assessment skills and the prformance of specific services and
procedures taht are complex becasue of the resident's condition or the
type or number of procedures that are necessary
• Intensive skilled nursing care includes... -✓✓Direct patient
observation or montioring or perfomance of complex nursing proedures
by registered nurses and licensed practial nurses on a continuing basis,
repeated application of complex nursing procedures or services every 24
hours, or frequent montioring and documentaiton of the residnet's
condition and response to theraputic measures.
• Intermediate care facility means... -✓✓a nursing home which is
licensed by the department as an intermediate care facility to provide
intermediate nursing care.
,• Intermediate nursing care means... -✓✓basic care consisting of
physical, emotion, social, and other rehabilitative services under periodic
medical supervision. This nursing care requires the skill of an RN for
oservaion and recording of reactions and symptoms, and for supervision
of nursing care. Most of the resident have long term illnesses or
disabilities which may have reached a stable plateau. Other indiviuals
may require nursing care to maintain a stabality. Essential supportive
consultant services are provided
• Involuntary administration of psychotropic medication includes any of
the following... -✓✓Placing psychotropic medications in and ind. food
or drink with knowledge that the ind. protests receipt of the psychotropic
meds, forcibly restraining an ind. to enable administration of
psychotropic meds, requiring an ind. to take psychotropic medication as
a condition of receiving privleges or benefits.
• License practical nurse means... -✓✓A person licensed as a licesend
practical nurse under ch. 441 stats.
• Limited nursing care means... -✓✓Simple nrsing care procedures
required by residents with long term illnesses or disabilities in order to
maintain stability and which can be provided safetly only by or under
the supervision of a person no less skilled than licensed practicual nurse
who works under he direction of an RN. Supervision of the physicial,
emotional, social, and rehabilatative needs o the resident is the
responsibility of the appropriate health care provider serving under the
direction of a physician.
, • Neglect means... -✓✓does not include an act or acts of mere
inefficiency, unsatisfactory conduct or failure in good perormance as the
result of inability, incapacity, inadvertency or ordinary negligence in
isolated instances, or good faith errors in judgement or discretion.
• Nurse means.... -✓✓a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse
• Nurse practioner means... -✓✓a registered professional nurse wh
meets the requirements of DHS 105.20(1)
• Nursing assistant means... -✓✓A person who is employed primarily to
provide direct care services to residents but is not registered or licensed
under ch. 441 stats.
• Pharmacist means... -✓✓A person registered as a pharmacist under ch.
450 stats.
• Physician means.... -✓✓A person license to practice medicine or
osteopathy under ch. 448 stats.
• Physical therapist means.... -✓✓a person licensed to pracice physical
therapy under ch. 448 stats.
and Answer | Complete Exam Prep
Using Previously Tested Content
• Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber -✓✓A person who has been
granted a certificate to issue prescriptino orders.
• Authorized prescriber -✓✓A person licensed in this state to prescribe
medications, treatments, or rehabilitative therapies.
• Department -✓✓Wisconsin Department of Health Services
• Developmental Disability -✓✓Mental retardation or a related
condtion, such as cerbral palsy, epilepsy or autism, but excluding mental
illness and infirmities of aging (which is manifested before the ind.
reaches age 22, likely to continue indeinitely, and results in substantial
functiona limitations in 3 or more of major life activities.
• Major life activities include.... -✓✓self-care, understanding and use of
language, learning, mobility, self-direction, and capacity for indpendent
living
• Dietitian means... -✓✓a person who is certified under statues 448.78,
licensed or certified as a dietitian in another state.
,• Facility means... -✓✓a nursing home subject to the requirements of
chapter DHS 132
• Full Time means... -✓✓at least 37.5 hours each week devoted to
facility business.
• IMD means... -✓✓Institution for mental diseases-- a facility that meets
the defention of an institution for mental disesease under 42 CFR
435.1009
• Intenstive skilled nursing care means... -✓✓care requiring specialized
nrusng assessment skills and the prformance of specific services and
procedures taht are complex becasue of the resident's condition or the
type or number of procedures that are necessary
• Intensive skilled nursing care includes... -✓✓Direct patient
observation or montioring or perfomance of complex nursing proedures
by registered nurses and licensed practial nurses on a continuing basis,
repeated application of complex nursing procedures or services every 24
hours, or frequent montioring and documentaiton of the residnet's
condition and response to theraputic measures.
• Intermediate care facility means... -✓✓a nursing home which is
licensed by the department as an intermediate care facility to provide
intermediate nursing care.
,• Intermediate nursing care means... -✓✓basic care consisting of
physical, emotion, social, and other rehabilitative services under periodic
medical supervision. This nursing care requires the skill of an RN for
oservaion and recording of reactions and symptoms, and for supervision
of nursing care. Most of the resident have long term illnesses or
disabilities which may have reached a stable plateau. Other indiviuals
may require nursing care to maintain a stabality. Essential supportive
consultant services are provided
• Involuntary administration of psychotropic medication includes any of
the following... -✓✓Placing psychotropic medications in and ind. food
or drink with knowledge that the ind. protests receipt of the psychotropic
meds, forcibly restraining an ind. to enable administration of
psychotropic meds, requiring an ind. to take psychotropic medication as
a condition of receiving privleges or benefits.
• License practical nurse means... -✓✓A person licensed as a licesend
practical nurse under ch. 441 stats.
• Limited nursing care means... -✓✓Simple nrsing care procedures
required by residents with long term illnesses or disabilities in order to
maintain stability and which can be provided safetly only by or under
the supervision of a person no less skilled than licensed practicual nurse
who works under he direction of an RN. Supervision of the physicial,
emotional, social, and rehabilatative needs o the resident is the
responsibility of the appropriate health care provider serving under the
direction of a physician.
, • Neglect means... -✓✓does not include an act or acts of mere
inefficiency, unsatisfactory conduct or failure in good perormance as the
result of inability, incapacity, inadvertency or ordinary negligence in
isolated instances, or good faith errors in judgement or discretion.
• Nurse means.... -✓✓a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse
• Nurse practioner means... -✓✓a registered professional nurse wh
meets the requirements of DHS 105.20(1)
• Nursing assistant means... -✓✓A person who is employed primarily to
provide direct care services to residents but is not registered or licensed
under ch. 441 stats.
• Pharmacist means... -✓✓A person registered as a pharmacist under ch.
450 stats.
• Physician means.... -✓✓A person license to practice medicine or
osteopathy under ch. 448 stats.
• Physical therapist means.... -✓✓a person licensed to pracice physical
therapy under ch. 448 stats.
