WISCONSIN NURSING JURISPRUDENCE
ACTUAL TEST PAPER COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS TESTED
ANSWERS
◉ Authorized prescriber
Answer: A person licensed in this state to prescribe medications,
treatments, or rehabilitative therapies.
◉ Department
Answer: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
◉ Developmental Disability
Answer: 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....
,Answer: self-care, understanding and use of language, learning,
mobility, self-direction, and capacity for indpendent living
◉ Dietitian means...
Answer: a person who is certified under statues 448.78, licensed or
certified as a dietitian in another state.
◉ Facility means...
Answer: a nursing home subject to the requirements of chapter DHS
132
◉ Full Time means...
Answer: at least 37.5 hours each week devoted to facility business.
◉ IMD means...
Answer: 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...
Answer: 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...
Answer: 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...
Answer: a nursing home which is licensed by the department as an
intermediate care facility to provide intermediate nursing care.
◉ Intermediate nursing care means...
Answer: 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...
, Answer: 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...
Answer: A person licensed as a licesend practical nurse under ch.
441 stats.
◉ Limited nursing care means...
Answer: 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...
Answer: 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.
ACTUAL TEST PAPER COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS TESTED
ANSWERS
◉ Authorized prescriber
Answer: A person licensed in this state to prescribe medications,
treatments, or rehabilitative therapies.
◉ Department
Answer: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
◉ Developmental Disability
Answer: 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....
,Answer: self-care, understanding and use of language, learning,
mobility, self-direction, and capacity for indpendent living
◉ Dietitian means...
Answer: a person who is certified under statues 448.78, licensed or
certified as a dietitian in another state.
◉ Facility means...
Answer: a nursing home subject to the requirements of chapter DHS
132
◉ Full Time means...
Answer: at least 37.5 hours each week devoted to facility business.
◉ IMD means...
Answer: 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...
Answer: 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...
Answer: 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...
Answer: a nursing home which is licensed by the department as an
intermediate care facility to provide intermediate nursing care.
◉ Intermediate nursing care means...
Answer: 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...
, Answer: 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...
Answer: A person licensed as a licesend practical nurse under ch.
441 stats.
◉ Limited nursing care means...
Answer: 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...
Answer: 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.
