NCTRC EXAM PART 2 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Two types of Evaluation - Correct Answers -- Formative Evaluation
- Summative Evaluation
Formative Evaluation - Correct Answers -- Ongoing using a step by step process and
occurs while the program is in progress
- Staff can make changes on a daily or weekly basis dependent on what the evaluation
data indicates
- Allows for immediate adjustments to ensure desired outcomes
-Leads to immediate change; room temp, supplies
EX. question: Are there enough resources for the remainder of the program?
Summative Evaluation - Correct Answers -- Overall assessment of a program
- A decision to continue or discontinue is imminent
- Conducted at the end of a program and can be used to compare programs or provide
information for the next session of programming
- The program is completely finished when the data is collected and analyzed
Ways to collect evaluation data - Correct Answers -- Questionnaires
- By observation
- Record documentation
Zero-Based Budget - Correct Answers -- Mangers re-evaluates the program within their
department each year( you have to explain every dollar you want to send)
- Build the year's budget from scratch
Flexible Budget - Correct Answers -- Adjust budget dependent upon unexpected
occurrences (such as smaller number of patient than expected or patients who are more
severely injured and require more intense interventions than expected)
Quality Improvement - Correct Answers -- Is the most common method of evaluating TR
services and is mandated by external accreditation agencies
, Utilization Review - Correct Answers -- Program in a clinical agency attempts to
demonstrate or document how effective the agency is at appropriately allocating its
resources
FrontLoading an Activity - Correct Answers -- Is making clear the purpose of an activity
prior to actually doing it
- The idea is that if participants clearly understand the purpose or lesson upfront, that
lesson will repeatedly show itself during the action component
Clinical Indicators - Correct Answers -- Assess particular health structures, processes
and outcomes
- They can be rate or mean-based, providing a quantitative basis for quality
improvement, or sentinel, identifying incidents of care that trigger further investigation
Outcome Monitoring - Correct Answers -- Are the differences that occur in a person
from when they begin treatment or enter the health care facility to when they leave
treatment or the health care facility
- The Joint Commission has identified three categories of outcome measurement
1) Health Status (functional well-being of an individual)
2) Patient perceptions of care (satisfaction measures of care from patient or family
perspective
3) Clinical performance outcomes (outcomes of processes of care)
- According to Stumbo "efficacy research is designed specifically to scrutinized how
effective programs are or were in attaining client outcomes
Clinical Supervisions - Correct Answers -- The supervision of other TRS's is call
Two purposes of clinical supervision are - Correct Answers -1) To improve clinical
practice skills
2) To ensure that the TR intents of a program are being provided or met
3 roles of a clinical supervisor - Correct Answers -- Teacher
- Counselor
- Consultants
There are 3 major tasks that an intern supervisor needs to know - Correct Answers -1)
Communication with the observation of the intern
2) Documentation of inter activities and experiences
3) Provision of training and education opportunities
Managed Care - Correct Answers -- Effort on behalf of insurance companies to control
costs of caring for pts
- These systems are now the predominant payment method
ANSWERS
Two types of Evaluation - Correct Answers -- Formative Evaluation
- Summative Evaluation
Formative Evaluation - Correct Answers -- Ongoing using a step by step process and
occurs while the program is in progress
- Staff can make changes on a daily or weekly basis dependent on what the evaluation
data indicates
- Allows for immediate adjustments to ensure desired outcomes
-Leads to immediate change; room temp, supplies
EX. question: Are there enough resources for the remainder of the program?
Summative Evaluation - Correct Answers -- Overall assessment of a program
- A decision to continue or discontinue is imminent
- Conducted at the end of a program and can be used to compare programs or provide
information for the next session of programming
- The program is completely finished when the data is collected and analyzed
Ways to collect evaluation data - Correct Answers -- Questionnaires
- By observation
- Record documentation
Zero-Based Budget - Correct Answers -- Mangers re-evaluates the program within their
department each year( you have to explain every dollar you want to send)
- Build the year's budget from scratch
Flexible Budget - Correct Answers -- Adjust budget dependent upon unexpected
occurrences (such as smaller number of patient than expected or patients who are more
severely injured and require more intense interventions than expected)
Quality Improvement - Correct Answers -- Is the most common method of evaluating TR
services and is mandated by external accreditation agencies
, Utilization Review - Correct Answers -- Program in a clinical agency attempts to
demonstrate or document how effective the agency is at appropriately allocating its
resources
FrontLoading an Activity - Correct Answers -- Is making clear the purpose of an activity
prior to actually doing it
- The idea is that if participants clearly understand the purpose or lesson upfront, that
lesson will repeatedly show itself during the action component
Clinical Indicators - Correct Answers -- Assess particular health structures, processes
and outcomes
- They can be rate or mean-based, providing a quantitative basis for quality
improvement, or sentinel, identifying incidents of care that trigger further investigation
Outcome Monitoring - Correct Answers -- Are the differences that occur in a person
from when they begin treatment or enter the health care facility to when they leave
treatment or the health care facility
- The Joint Commission has identified three categories of outcome measurement
1) Health Status (functional well-being of an individual)
2) Patient perceptions of care (satisfaction measures of care from patient or family
perspective
3) Clinical performance outcomes (outcomes of processes of care)
- According to Stumbo "efficacy research is designed specifically to scrutinized how
effective programs are or were in attaining client outcomes
Clinical Supervisions - Correct Answers -- The supervision of other TRS's is call
Two purposes of clinical supervision are - Correct Answers -1) To improve clinical
practice skills
2) To ensure that the TR intents of a program are being provided or met
3 roles of a clinical supervisor - Correct Answers -- Teacher
- Counselor
- Consultants
There are 3 major tasks that an intern supervisor needs to know - Correct Answers -1)
Communication with the observation of the intern
2) Documentation of inter activities and experiences
3) Provision of training and education opportunities
Managed Care - Correct Answers -- Effort on behalf of insurance companies to control
costs of caring for pts
- These systems are now the predominant payment method
