Illinois Nursing Home Administrator Exam #1
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Line Authority - ✔✔Line Authority is exercised by supervisors who have
direct authority and responsibility for the work of a unit, including the
right to command subordinates to act and to fire them if they disobey.
Staff Authority - ✔✔Staff Authority is exercised by someone hired or
retained to provide advice or technical support which persons in line
positions may accept, alter, or reject. Examples are legal counsel or RN-
consultants. But not assistant administrators or assistant department heads:
these reflect the wishes of the line officers they serve and share in their line
authority.
Functional Authority - ✔✔Functional Authority is limited to certain
specialized functions for which one has responsibility throughout the
facility, even though someone else may have line authority over the
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, employees performing these activities. E.g., certain personnel functions
under a human resources director.
Unity of Command - ✔✔Unity of Command = making each employee
responsible to one and only one supervisor. Employees who report to more
than one supervisor often experience conflicting orders and divided
loyalties. Clear lines of authority may promote job satisfaction and thus
productivity.
adjudication - ✔✔A determination by court of law or an administrative
body with quasi-judicial functions.
amicus curiae - ✔✔A person who has no right to appear in a pending suit
but is allowed by the court to introduce argument or evidence, as a "friend
of the court".
assumption of the risk - ✔✔A legal theory which states that an individual
who is aware of the hazards of an activity but engages in that activity
nevertheless cannot recover damages if he or she is injured by that hazard.
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Line Authority - ✔✔Line Authority is exercised by supervisors who have
direct authority and responsibility for the work of a unit, including the
right to command subordinates to act and to fire them if they disobey.
Staff Authority - ✔✔Staff Authority is exercised by someone hired or
retained to provide advice or technical support which persons in line
positions may accept, alter, or reject. Examples are legal counsel or RN-
consultants. But not assistant administrators or assistant department heads:
these reflect the wishes of the line officers they serve and share in their line
authority.
Functional Authority - ✔✔Functional Authority is limited to certain
specialized functions for which one has responsibility throughout the
facility, even though someone else may have line authority over the
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, employees performing these activities. E.g., certain personnel functions
under a human resources director.
Unity of Command - ✔✔Unity of Command = making each employee
responsible to one and only one supervisor. Employees who report to more
than one supervisor often experience conflicting orders and divided
loyalties. Clear lines of authority may promote job satisfaction and thus
productivity.
adjudication - ✔✔A determination by court of law or an administrative
body with quasi-judicial functions.
amicus curiae - ✔✔A person who has no right to appear in a pending suit
but is allowed by the court to introduce argument or evidence, as a "friend
of the court".
assumption of the risk - ✔✔A legal theory which states that an individual
who is aware of the hazards of an activity but engages in that activity
nevertheless cannot recover damages if he or she is injured by that hazard.
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