FEDERAL NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATOR 2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The most likely cause of for series of bankruptcies among larger nursing home
chains around the year 2000 was - ✔✔Paying too much for acquisitions in 1998 and
1999
✔✔In a chance conversation with the owner of an eight-facility chain, the newly hired
administrator for the oldest facility in the chainindicates that, since the mortgage ia fully
retired, he will concentrate more on being effective then effecient since his Quality
Indicators are all at or above his state's average. The owner would likely - ✔✔Be
distressed
✔✔Occupancy of Facility A has been a steady 70% since Prospective Payment System
was introduced. Two weeks ago, a new 120-bed equally equipped facility opened
several blocks away. The facility A administrator tells the admissions counselor to
continue the usual recruitment approach. The chain owners ought to - ✔✔Seek a new
administrator
✔✔Bankruptsy among larger nursing home chains prior to 2000 - ✔✔Were highly
unusual
, ✔✔Under the Prospective Payment System, nursing facilities reimbursed costs -
✔✔Were never bundled
✔✔In recent years Medicare has - ✔✔shifted more cost onto nursing facilities
✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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
- ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Failed
to understand MBWA
✔✔Management-by-walking-around (MBWA) - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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
- ✔✔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 - ✔✔favorable impress
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The most likely cause of for series of bankruptcies among larger nursing home
chains around the year 2000 was - ✔✔Paying too much for acquisitions in 1998 and
1999
✔✔In a chance conversation with the owner of an eight-facility chain, the newly hired
administrator for the oldest facility in the chainindicates that, since the mortgage ia fully
retired, he will concentrate more on being effective then effecient since his Quality
Indicators are all at or above his state's average. The owner would likely - ✔✔Be
distressed
✔✔Occupancy of Facility A has been a steady 70% since Prospective Payment System
was introduced. Two weeks ago, a new 120-bed equally equipped facility opened
several blocks away. The facility A administrator tells the admissions counselor to
continue the usual recruitment approach. The chain owners ought to - ✔✔Seek a new
administrator
✔✔Bankruptsy among larger nursing home chains prior to 2000 - ✔✔Were highly
unusual
, ✔✔Under the Prospective Payment System, nursing facilities reimbursed costs -
✔✔Were never bundled
✔✔In recent years Medicare has - ✔✔shifted more cost onto nursing facilities
✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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
- ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Failed
to understand MBWA
✔✔Management-by-walking-around (MBWA) - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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
- ✔✔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 - ✔✔favorable impress
