North Carolina Nursing Home
Administrator State Exam Questions
and Answers 100% Pass
Abuse definition -
Answer: the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation or
punishment with resulting physical harm, pain, or mental anguish
Question: Accident definition -
Answer: an unplanned event resulting in the injury or wounding of a patient or
other individual
Question: Addition definition -
Answer: an extension or increase in floor area or height of a building
Question: Alteration definition -
,Answer: any construction or renovation to an existing structure other than repair,
maintenance, or addition
Question: "Brain injury long term care" definition -
Answer: an interdisciplinary, intensive maintenance program for patients 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 consecutive
months. Provided through a medically supervised interdisciplinary process
and is directed toward maintaining the individual at the optimal level of physical,
cognitive, and behavioral
functions
Question: Capacity definition -
Answer: the maximum number of patient or resident beds for which the facility is
licensed to maintain at any given time
Question: "Comprehensive, inpatient rehabilitation program" definition -
,Answer: program for the treatment of persons with
functional limitations or chronic disabling conditions who have the potential to
achieve a significant
improvement in activities of daily living, including bathing, dressing, grooming,
transferring, eating, and
using speech, language, or other communication systems. Utilizes a coordinated
and integrated, interdisciplinary approach, directed by a physician, to assess
patient needs and to provide treatment and evaluation of physical, psychosocial,
and cognitive deficits.
Question: Discharge definition -
Answer: a physical relocation of a patient to another health care setting; the
discharge of a patient to his or her home; or the relocation of a patient from a
nursing bed to an adult care home bed, or from an adult care home bed to a
nursing bed
Question: Incident definition -
Answer: any accident, event, or occurrence that is unplanned, or unusual, and has
caused harm to a patient, or has the potential for harm
, Question: Interdisciplinary definition -
Answer: an integrated process involving representatives from disciplines of the
health care team
Question: Licensee definition -
Answer: the person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or organization to
whom a license to operate the facility has been issues. The licensee is the legal
entity that is responsible for the operation of the business.
Question: "Medication error rate" definition and formula -
Answer: the measure of discrepancies between medication that was ordered for a
patient by the health care provider and medication that is administered to the
patient.
# of errors / # of opportunities for error x 100
ex:
5 errors / 60 opportunities = 0.083 x 100 = 8.3%
Administrator State Exam Questions
and Answers 100% Pass
Abuse definition -
Answer: the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation or
punishment with resulting physical harm, pain, or mental anguish
Question: Accident definition -
Answer: an unplanned event resulting in the injury or wounding of a patient or
other individual
Question: Addition definition -
Answer: an extension or increase in floor area or height of a building
Question: Alteration definition -
,Answer: any construction or renovation to an existing structure other than repair,
maintenance, or addition
Question: "Brain injury long term care" definition -
Answer: an interdisciplinary, intensive maintenance program for patients 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 consecutive
months. Provided through a medically supervised interdisciplinary process
and is directed toward maintaining the individual at the optimal level of physical,
cognitive, and behavioral
functions
Question: Capacity definition -
Answer: the maximum number of patient or resident beds for which the facility is
licensed to maintain at any given time
Question: "Comprehensive, inpatient rehabilitation program" definition -
,Answer: program for the treatment of persons with
functional limitations or chronic disabling conditions who have the potential to
achieve a significant
improvement in activities of daily living, including bathing, dressing, grooming,
transferring, eating, and
using speech, language, or other communication systems. Utilizes a coordinated
and integrated, interdisciplinary approach, directed by a physician, to assess
patient needs and to provide treatment and evaluation of physical, psychosocial,
and cognitive deficits.
Question: Discharge definition -
Answer: a physical relocation of a patient to another health care setting; the
discharge of a patient to his or her home; or the relocation of a patient from a
nursing bed to an adult care home bed, or from an adult care home bed to a
nursing bed
Question: Incident definition -
Answer: any accident, event, or occurrence that is unplanned, or unusual, and has
caused harm to a patient, or has the potential for harm
, Question: Interdisciplinary definition -
Answer: an integrated process involving representatives from disciplines of the
health care team
Question: Licensee definition -
Answer: the person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or organization to
whom a license to operate the facility has been issues. The licensee is the legal
entity that is responsible for the operation of the business.
Question: "Medication error rate" definition and formula -
Answer: the measure of discrepancies between medication that was ordered for a
patient by the health care provider and medication that is administered to the
patient.
# of errors / # of opportunities for error x 100
ex:
5 errors / 60 opportunities = 0.083 x 100 = 8.3%
