CERTIFIED ASSISTED LIVING ADMINISTRATOR
LATEST EXAMS TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The Commissioner may order the summary suspension of a license of a health care
facility or a component or distinct part of a facility upon a finding that violations
pertaining to the care of patients or to the hazardous or unsafe conditions of the
physical structure pose an immediate threat to the health, safety, and welfare of the
public or the residents of the facility. Except in the case of life-threatening emergency,
the notice shall provide the facility with a 72-hour period from receipt to correct the
violations and provide proof to the Department of such correction. If the Department
determines the violations have not been corrected, and the facility has not filed notice
requesting a hearing to contest the notice of suspension within 48 hours of receipt of the
Commissioner's notice pursuant, then the license shall be deemed suspended. Upon
the effective date of the suspension, the facility shall cease and des - ✔✔Suspension of
a license
✔✔An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential
tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. - ✔✔Pain
, ✔✔A tool that is age cognitive and culturally specific to the patient or resident
population to which it is applied and which results in an assessment and measurement
of the intensity of pain. - ✔✔Pain Rating Scale
✔✔A plan based on information gathered during a patient/resident pain assessment,
that identifies the patient's/resident's needs and specifies appropriate interventions to
alleviate pain, to the extent feasible and medically appropriate. - ✔✔Pain Treatment
Plan
✔✔A facility shall formulate a system for assessing and monitoring patients'/residents/
pain using a pain rating scale. Pain should be assessed at minimum upon admission,
on the day of a planned discharge, and when warranted by changes in a
patients'/residents' condition, self-reporting of pain and/or evidence of behavioral cues
indicative of the presence of pain. If pain is identified, a pain treatment plan shall be
developed and implemented within the health care facility or the patient/resident shall
be referred for treatment or consultation. - ✔✔Pain Assessment Procedure
✔✔In the case of individuals receiving home health care services, assessment shall
coincide with a visit by staff of the home health service agency and assessment on the
day of discharge is not required if the individual has been admitted to an inpatient or
residential health care facility and discharge from the home health service agency takes
place after the admission. - ✔✔Pain and Home Health Care Services
✔✔1.) Orientation of new staff to the facility's policies and procedures on pain
assessment and management.
2.) Training of staff in pain assessment tools; behaviors potentially indicating pain;
personal, cultural, spiritual and/or ethnic beliefs that may impact a patient's/resident's
perception of pain; new equipment and new technologies to assess and monitor a
patient's/resident's pain status.
3.) Incorporation of pain assessment, monitoring and management into the initial
orientation and ongoing education of all appropriate staff.
4.) Patient/resident rights.
5.) Implementation of the plan shall include records of attendance for each program. -
✔✔Staff Education and Training Programs
✔✔This facilities program shall include a systematic review and evaluation of pain
assessment, management, and documentation practices. The facility shall develop a
plan by which to collect and analyze data in order to evaluate outcomes or performance.
Data analysis shall focus on recommendations for implementing corrective actions and
improving performance. - ✔✔Continuous Quality Improvement
✔✔All facilities shall purchase, for use by health care workers only, available sharp
devices containing integrated safety features or available needleless devices designed
to prevent needle stick injuries. In cases where there is no available sharp device
LATEST EXAMS TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The Commissioner may order the summary suspension of a license of a health care
facility or a component or distinct part of a facility upon a finding that violations
pertaining to the care of patients or to the hazardous or unsafe conditions of the
physical structure pose an immediate threat to the health, safety, and welfare of the
public or the residents of the facility. Except in the case of life-threatening emergency,
the notice shall provide the facility with a 72-hour period from receipt to correct the
violations and provide proof to the Department of such correction. If the Department
determines the violations have not been corrected, and the facility has not filed notice
requesting a hearing to contest the notice of suspension within 48 hours of receipt of the
Commissioner's notice pursuant, then the license shall be deemed suspended. Upon
the effective date of the suspension, the facility shall cease and des - ✔✔Suspension of
a license
✔✔An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential
tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. - ✔✔Pain
, ✔✔A tool that is age cognitive and culturally specific to the patient or resident
population to which it is applied and which results in an assessment and measurement
of the intensity of pain. - ✔✔Pain Rating Scale
✔✔A plan based on information gathered during a patient/resident pain assessment,
that identifies the patient's/resident's needs and specifies appropriate interventions to
alleviate pain, to the extent feasible and medically appropriate. - ✔✔Pain Treatment
Plan
✔✔A facility shall formulate a system for assessing and monitoring patients'/residents/
pain using a pain rating scale. Pain should be assessed at minimum upon admission,
on the day of a planned discharge, and when warranted by changes in a
patients'/residents' condition, self-reporting of pain and/or evidence of behavioral cues
indicative of the presence of pain. If pain is identified, a pain treatment plan shall be
developed and implemented within the health care facility or the patient/resident shall
be referred for treatment or consultation. - ✔✔Pain Assessment Procedure
✔✔In the case of individuals receiving home health care services, assessment shall
coincide with a visit by staff of the home health service agency and assessment on the
day of discharge is not required if the individual has been admitted to an inpatient or
residential health care facility and discharge from the home health service agency takes
place after the admission. - ✔✔Pain and Home Health Care Services
✔✔1.) Orientation of new staff to the facility's policies and procedures on pain
assessment and management.
2.) Training of staff in pain assessment tools; behaviors potentially indicating pain;
personal, cultural, spiritual and/or ethnic beliefs that may impact a patient's/resident's
perception of pain; new equipment and new technologies to assess and monitor a
patient's/resident's pain status.
3.) Incorporation of pain assessment, monitoring and management into the initial
orientation and ongoing education of all appropriate staff.
4.) Patient/resident rights.
5.) Implementation of the plan shall include records of attendance for each program. -
✔✔Staff Education and Training Programs
✔✔This facilities program shall include a systematic review and evaluation of pain
assessment, management, and documentation practices. The facility shall develop a
plan by which to collect and analyze data in order to evaluate outcomes or performance.
Data analysis shall focus on recommendations for implementing corrective actions and
improving performance. - ✔✔Continuous Quality Improvement
✔✔All facilities shall purchase, for use by health care workers only, available sharp
devices containing integrated safety features or available needleless devices designed
to prevent needle stick injuries. In cases where there is no available sharp device
