NC State Exam Vocabulary "Nursing Home
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Abuse - ✔✔✔Mean the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain or
mental anguish.
Accident - ✔✔✔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 - ✔✔✔Means a person trained in record maintenance and preservation, and accredited by the American
Health Information Management Association.
Adequate - ✔✔✔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 - ✔✔✔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 - ✔✔✔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 - ✔✔✔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 consecutive months. Services are provided through a medically supervised interdisciplinary process and are
directed toward maintaining the individual at the optimal level of physical, cognitive and behavioral function.
Capacity - ✔✔✔Means the maximum number of patient or resident beds for which the facility is licensed to maintain at any given time.
Case Manager - ✔✔✔Mean the individual responsible for the coordination of services, for a given patient between disciplines so that the
patient may reach optimal rehabilitation through the judicious use of resources.
Combination facility - ✔✔✔Mean a combination home as define in GS 11E- 101
Comprehensive, in patient rehabilitation program - ✔✔✔Means a program for the treatment of persons with functional limitations or chronic
disabling conditions who have the potential achieve a significant improvement in activities of daily living. A comprehensive, rehabilitation
program 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.
, Convalescent care - ✔✔✔Means care given for the purpose of assisting the patient or resident to regain health or strength
Department - ✔✔✔Means the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service.
Dietitian - ✔✔✔Mean a person who is licensed according to GS 90 Article 25 or is registered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)
of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) according the standards and qualifications as referenced in the second edition of the
Accreditation/Approval Manual for Dietetic Education Program The Registration Eligibility Application for Dietitians and Continuing Professional
Education which are hereby incorporated by reference including subsequent amendments and editions.
Director of Nursing - ✔✔✔Means a registered nurse who has authority and direct responsibility for all nursing services and nursing care.
Discharge - ✔✔✔Means a patient who physically relocates to another health care setting or is discharged home or relocated from a nursing bed
to an adult care home bed or from an adult care home bed to a nursing bed.
Drug - ✔✔✔Means substance:
a) recognized in the official United States Pharmacopeia, official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them
b) intended for use in the diagnosis, sure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals
c) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other ie substances other than food
d) intended for use as a component of any article specified in Subitems a, b, c, of this subchapter.
Existing Facility - ✔✔✔Means a facility currently licensed or proposed facility, proposed addition to a licensed facility or proposed remodeled
facility that will be built according to plans and specifications which have been approved by the Department through the design development.
Exit Conference - ✔✔✔Means the conference held at the end of a survey or investigation between the Department's representatives and the
facility administration representative.
Facility - ✔✔✔Means a nursing facility or combination facility as defined in this Rule.
Finding - ✔✔✔(when used in conjunction with the Nurse Aide Program) means a determination by the Department that an allegation of patient
abuse or neglect, or misappropriation of patient property has been substantiated.
HIV Unit - ✔✔✔Means designated areas dedicated to patients or residents known to have Human Immunodeficiency Virus disease.
Incident - ✔✔✔Means any happening event or occurrence which is unplanned unusual or unwanted and has actually caused harm to a patient
or has the potential for harm.
Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility or Unit - ✔✔✔Means a free standing or a unit (unit pertains to contiguous dedicated beds and spaces) within
an existing licensed health service.
Administrator" Questions With Complete Solutions 100%
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Abuse - ✔✔✔Mean the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain or
mental anguish.
Accident - ✔✔✔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 - ✔✔✔Means a person trained in record maintenance and preservation, and accredited by the American
Health Information Management Association.
Adequate - ✔✔✔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 - ✔✔✔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 - ✔✔✔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 - ✔✔✔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 consecutive months. Services are provided through a medically supervised interdisciplinary process and are
directed toward maintaining the individual at the optimal level of physical, cognitive and behavioral function.
Capacity - ✔✔✔Means the maximum number of patient or resident beds for which the facility is licensed to maintain at any given time.
Case Manager - ✔✔✔Mean the individual responsible for the coordination of services, for a given patient between disciplines so that the
patient may reach optimal rehabilitation through the judicious use of resources.
Combination facility - ✔✔✔Mean a combination home as define in GS 11E- 101
Comprehensive, in patient rehabilitation program - ✔✔✔Means a program for the treatment of persons with functional limitations or chronic
disabling conditions who have the potential achieve a significant improvement in activities of daily living. A comprehensive, rehabilitation
program 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.
, Convalescent care - ✔✔✔Means care given for the purpose of assisting the patient or resident to regain health or strength
Department - ✔✔✔Means the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service.
Dietitian - ✔✔✔Mean a person who is licensed according to GS 90 Article 25 or is registered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)
of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) according the standards and qualifications as referenced in the second edition of the
Accreditation/Approval Manual for Dietetic Education Program The Registration Eligibility Application for Dietitians and Continuing Professional
Education which are hereby incorporated by reference including subsequent amendments and editions.
Director of Nursing - ✔✔✔Means a registered nurse who has authority and direct responsibility for all nursing services and nursing care.
Discharge - ✔✔✔Means a patient who physically relocates to another health care setting or is discharged home or relocated from a nursing bed
to an adult care home bed or from an adult care home bed to a nursing bed.
Drug - ✔✔✔Means substance:
a) recognized in the official United States Pharmacopeia, official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them
b) intended for use in the diagnosis, sure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals
c) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other ie substances other than food
d) intended for use as a component of any article specified in Subitems a, b, c, of this subchapter.
Existing Facility - ✔✔✔Means a facility currently licensed or proposed facility, proposed addition to a licensed facility or proposed remodeled
facility that will be built according to plans and specifications which have been approved by the Department through the design development.
Exit Conference - ✔✔✔Means the conference held at the end of a survey or investigation between the Department's representatives and the
facility administration representative.
Facility - ✔✔✔Means a nursing facility or combination facility as defined in this Rule.
Finding - ✔✔✔(when used in conjunction with the Nurse Aide Program) means a determination by the Department that an allegation of patient
abuse or neglect, or misappropriation of patient property has been substantiated.
HIV Unit - ✔✔✔Means designated areas dedicated to patients or residents known to have Human Immunodeficiency Virus disease.
Incident - ✔✔✔Means any happening event or occurrence which is unplanned unusual or unwanted and has actually caused harm to a patient
or has the potential for harm.
Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility or Unit - ✔✔✔Means a free standing or a unit (unit pertains to contiguous dedicated beds and spaces) within
an existing licensed health service.
