NC State Exam Vocabulary "Nursing Home Administrator

Abuse - ANSWER-Mean the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain or mental anguish. Accident - ANSWER-Means an unplanned or unwanted event resulting in the injury or wounding, no matter how slight, of a patient or other individual. Accredited medical record technician - ANSWER-Means a person trained in record maintenance and preservation, and accredited by the American Health Information Management Association. Adequate - ANSWER-Means when applied to various services, that the services are at least satisfactory in meeting a referred to need when measured against contemporary professional standards of practice. Administrator - ANSWER-Mean a person licensed by North Carolina State Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators in accordance with GS 90-276, Article 20, and who has authority for and is responsible for the overall operation of a facility. Appropriate - ANSWER-Mean right, suitable or proper for the specified use or purpose, suitable or proper, when used as an adjective. When used as a transitive verb it means to set aside for some specified exclusive use. Brain Injury Long Term Care - ANSWER-Means an interdisciplinary, intensive maintenance program for patient who have incurred brain damage caused by external physical trauma and who have completed a primary course of rehabilitative treatment and have reached a point of no gain or progress for more than three consecut