WISCONSIN NHA EXAM REVIEW PRACTICE
SOLUTION 2026 FULL SOLUTION GRADED A+
⩥ Advanced practice nurse prescriber Answer: A person who has
been granted a certificate to issue prescription orders
⩥ Authorized prescriber Answer: A person licensed in this state to
prescribe medications, treatments, or rehabilitative therapies
⩥ "Dietitan" means a person who is any of the following.... Answer:
a) certified under s.448.78 stats
b) licensed or certified as a dietitian in another state
⩥ What is "full-time"? Answer: 37.5 hours each week devoted to
facility business ...x
⩥ What is "IMD"? Answer: Institution for Mental Diseases
⩥ What is intensive skilled nursing care? Answer: care requiring
specialized nursing assessment skills and the performance of specific
services and procedures that are complex because of the resident's
condition or the type or number of procedures that are necessary
,⩥ What is an "intermediate care facility"? Answer: a Nursing Home
which is licensed by the department as an intermediate care facility to
provide intermediate nursing care
⩥ What is "intermediate nursing care"? Answer: Basic care
consisting of physical, emotional, social and other rehabilitative
services under periodic medical supervision. The nursing care
requires the skill of a registered nurse for observation and recording
of reactions and symptoms, and for supervision of nursing care.
⩥ What is "involuntary administration of psychotropic medication"?
Answer: It can mean any of the following:
a) placing psychotropic medication in an individual's food or drink
with knowledge that the individual protests receipt of the psycho
tropic medication
b) Forcibly restraining an individual to enable administration of
psychotropic medication
c) Requiring an individual to take psychotropic medication as a
condition of receiving privileges or benefits
⩥ What does "limited nursing care" mean? Answer: It means simple
nursing care procedures required by residents with long-term illnesses
or disabilities in order to maintain stability and which can be provided
safely only by or under the supervision of a person no less skilled than
a licensed practical nurse who works under the direction of a
registered nurse.
,⩥ What is a "nursing assistant"? Answer: A person who is employed
primarily to provide direct care services to residents but is not
registered or licensed.
⩥ What is a "physician extender"? Answer: A person who is a
physician's assistant or a nurse practitioner acting under the general
supervision and direction of a physician
⩥ What does "protest" mean? Answer: To make more than one
discernible negative response, other than mere silence, to the offer of,
recommendation for, or other proffering of voluntary receipt of
psychotropic medication. "Protest" does not mean a discernible
negative response to a proposed method of administration of the
psychotropic medication.
⩥ How long is "Recuperative care" anticipated to be provided for?
Answer: For a period of 90 days or less for a resident whose physician
has certified that he or she is convalescing or recuperating from an
illness or a medical treatment.
⩥ How long is "respite care" anticipated to be provided for? Answer:
For a period of 28 days or less for the purpose of temporarily
relieving a family member or other caregiver from his or her daily
caregiving duties
⩥ What does short-term care mean? Answer: It means recuperative
care or respite care
, ⩥ In determining whether a service is skilled, what three criteria shall
be used? Answer: 1. The service would constitute a skilled service
where the inherent complexity of a service prescribed for a resident is
such that it can be safely and effectively performed only by or under
the supervision of professional personnel;
2. The restoration potential of a resident is not the deciding factor in
determining whether a service is to be considered skilled or unskilled.
Even where full recovery or medical improvement is not possible,
skilled care may be needed to prevent, to the extent possible,
deterioration of the condition or to sustain current capacities; and
3. A service that is generally unskilled would be considered skilled
where, because of special medical complications, its performance or
supervision or the observation of the resident necessitates the use of
skilled nursing personnel.
⩥ What does "supervision" mean? Does it require continuous
presence of supervisor in same building as assistant? Answer: At least
intermittent face-to-face contact between supervisor and assistant,
with the supervisor instructing and overseeing the assistant, but does
not require the continuous presence of the supervisor in the same
building as the assistant.
⩥ What does "tour of duty" mean? Answer: A portion of the day
during which a shift of resident care personnel are on duty.
⩥ What is a "unit does drug delivery system"? Answer: A system for
the distribution of medications in which single doses of medications
are individually packaged and sealed for distribution to residents
SOLUTION 2026 FULL SOLUTION GRADED A+
⩥ Advanced practice nurse prescriber Answer: A person who has
been granted a certificate to issue prescription orders
⩥ Authorized prescriber Answer: A person licensed in this state to
prescribe medications, treatments, or rehabilitative therapies
⩥ "Dietitan" means a person who is any of the following.... Answer:
a) certified under s.448.78 stats
b) licensed or certified as a dietitian in another state
⩥ What is "full-time"? Answer: 37.5 hours each week devoted to
facility business ...x
⩥ What is "IMD"? Answer: Institution for Mental Diseases
⩥ What is intensive skilled nursing care? Answer: care requiring
specialized nursing assessment skills and the performance of specific
services and procedures that are complex because of the resident's
condition or the type or number of procedures that are necessary
,⩥ What is an "intermediate care facility"? Answer: a Nursing Home
which is licensed by the department as an intermediate care facility to
provide intermediate nursing care
⩥ What is "intermediate nursing care"? Answer: Basic care
consisting of physical, emotional, social and other rehabilitative
services under periodic medical supervision. The nursing care
requires the skill of a registered nurse for observation and recording
of reactions and symptoms, and for supervision of nursing care.
⩥ What is "involuntary administration of psychotropic medication"?
Answer: It can mean any of the following:
a) placing psychotropic medication in an individual's food or drink
with knowledge that the individual protests receipt of the psycho
tropic medication
b) Forcibly restraining an individual to enable administration of
psychotropic medication
c) Requiring an individual to take psychotropic medication as a
condition of receiving privileges or benefits
⩥ What does "limited nursing care" mean? Answer: It means simple
nursing care procedures required by residents with long-term illnesses
or disabilities in order to maintain stability and which can be provided
safely only by or under the supervision of a person no less skilled than
a licensed practical nurse who works under the direction of a
registered nurse.
,⩥ What is a "nursing assistant"? Answer: A person who is employed
primarily to provide direct care services to residents but is not
registered or licensed.
⩥ What is a "physician extender"? Answer: A person who is a
physician's assistant or a nurse practitioner acting under the general
supervision and direction of a physician
⩥ What does "protest" mean? Answer: To make more than one
discernible negative response, other than mere silence, to the offer of,
recommendation for, or other proffering of voluntary receipt of
psychotropic medication. "Protest" does not mean a discernible
negative response to a proposed method of administration of the
psychotropic medication.
⩥ How long is "Recuperative care" anticipated to be provided for?
Answer: For a period of 90 days or less for a resident whose physician
has certified that he or she is convalescing or recuperating from an
illness or a medical treatment.
⩥ How long is "respite care" anticipated to be provided for? Answer:
For a period of 28 days or less for the purpose of temporarily
relieving a family member or other caregiver from his or her daily
caregiving duties
⩥ What does short-term care mean? Answer: It means recuperative
care or respite care
, ⩥ In determining whether a service is skilled, what three criteria shall
be used? Answer: 1. The service would constitute a skilled service
where the inherent complexity of a service prescribed for a resident is
such that it can be safely and effectively performed only by or under
the supervision of professional personnel;
2. The restoration potential of a resident is not the deciding factor in
determining whether a service is to be considered skilled or unskilled.
Even where full recovery or medical improvement is not possible,
skilled care may be needed to prevent, to the extent possible,
deterioration of the condition or to sustain current capacities; and
3. A service that is generally unskilled would be considered skilled
where, because of special medical complications, its performance or
supervision or the observation of the resident necessitates the use of
skilled nursing personnel.
⩥ What does "supervision" mean? Does it require continuous
presence of supervisor in same building as assistant? Answer: At least
intermittent face-to-face contact between supervisor and assistant,
with the supervisor instructing and overseeing the assistant, but does
not require the continuous presence of the supervisor in the same
building as the assistant.
⩥ What does "tour of duty" mean? Answer: A portion of the day
during which a shift of resident care personnel are on duty.
⩥ What is a "unit does drug delivery system"? Answer: A system for
the distribution of medications in which single doses of medications
are individually packaged and sealed for distribution to residents
