ACTIVITY DIRECTOR EXAMINATION TEST ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔OBRA - ✔✔Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987-Activities Tag F248
✔✔Accommodations - ✔✔devices-hearing aids, wheel chairs etc
✔✔Roles of Activity Directors - ✔✔1. Facility Marketer
2. Mediator
3. Deal with behavior problems
4. Confidant
5. Sunshine person
6. Gopher
7. Friend Advocate
✔✔Roles of Activity Directors (from our notes) - ✔✔1. Develop a resident council
2. Care for residents/family's needs
3. Staff needs, training, support, materials
4. Advocate for program, Activity and when
5. Liaison/mediator
6. educator
7. gopher
8. volunteer development
✔✔Policies and Procedures— - ✔✔Structure in an organization is essential. Policies
are made-procedures are followed
✔✔Policies - ✔✔are designed to meet recurring situations with a consistent pattern of
behavior. They are both for the facility and for the department.
✔✔Procedures - ✔✔are derived from policies. they are systematic plans of action for
implementing policies. They identify who, when, where, and /or how the policies are to
be put into action.
✔✔ADL's - ✔✔1. dressing
2. feeding oneself
3. continence
4. transfer-from chair to bed
5. toileting
6. bathing
✔✔Resident rights - ✔✔= Residents' Rights are guaranteed by the federal 1987 Nursing
Home Reform Law. Nursing home residents have certain right and protections under
the law. The nursing home must list and give all new residents a copy of these right
, ✔✔Activity organizations, rules and regulations, IADA - ✔✔Indiana Activity Directors
Association
✔✔The stages of loss - ✔✔1. Denial
2. Anger/hostility
3. Searching for alternatives/bargaining
4. Sadness/ Depression
5. Acceptance
✔✔Communication - ✔✔the exchange or interchange of ideas, information, feelings,
etc.., with mutual understanding of what has been transmitted
✔✔Person centered care/person centered planning - ✔✔a set of approaches designed
to assist someone to plan their life and supports. "person Centered Planning discovers
and acts on what is important to a person. It is a process for continual listening and
learning, focusing on what are important to someone now and in the future, and acting
on this in alliance with their family and their friends."
✔✔Reality Orientation - ✔✔is all about presenting info about time, place or person in
order to help a person understand their surroundings and situation.
✔✔CMS - ✔✔Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is responsible for issuing
the Federal Register (Federal Regulations) Each state then reviews these federal
guidelines and interprets them for state regulations, which will be in compliance with the
federal government standards.
✔✔1.Name 4 of the homely tasks that psychiatrist prescribed for the therapeutic effect?
- ✔✔farming cooking cleaning, gardening
✔✔The famous nurse Florence nightingale advocated for what kind of visits in the old
age wards? - ✔✔babies
✔✔. what act in 1935 provided benefits to older adults and allowed them to remain in
their own homes longer? - ✔✔Social Security
✔✔4What was the year of the Medicare act? - ✔✔1965
✔✔. What happened as a result of the Medicare act? - ✔✔It mandated long term care
✔✔Hospice has been in this country since which decade? - ✔✔1972
✔✔What year did activities first begin to be required? - ✔✔1974 rules and regs
✔✔Adult daycare was started in a psychiatric hospital in 1942 - ✔✔Soviet Union
QUESTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔OBRA - ✔✔Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987-Activities Tag F248
✔✔Accommodations - ✔✔devices-hearing aids, wheel chairs etc
✔✔Roles of Activity Directors - ✔✔1. Facility Marketer
2. Mediator
3. Deal with behavior problems
4. Confidant
5. Sunshine person
6. Gopher
7. Friend Advocate
✔✔Roles of Activity Directors (from our notes) - ✔✔1. Develop a resident council
2. Care for residents/family's needs
3. Staff needs, training, support, materials
4. Advocate for program, Activity and when
5. Liaison/mediator
6. educator
7. gopher
8. volunteer development
✔✔Policies and Procedures— - ✔✔Structure in an organization is essential. Policies
are made-procedures are followed
✔✔Policies - ✔✔are designed to meet recurring situations with a consistent pattern of
behavior. They are both for the facility and for the department.
✔✔Procedures - ✔✔are derived from policies. they are systematic plans of action for
implementing policies. They identify who, when, where, and /or how the policies are to
be put into action.
✔✔ADL's - ✔✔1. dressing
2. feeding oneself
3. continence
4. transfer-from chair to bed
5. toileting
6. bathing
✔✔Resident rights - ✔✔= Residents' Rights are guaranteed by the federal 1987 Nursing
Home Reform Law. Nursing home residents have certain right and protections under
the law. The nursing home must list and give all new residents a copy of these right
, ✔✔Activity organizations, rules and regulations, IADA - ✔✔Indiana Activity Directors
Association
✔✔The stages of loss - ✔✔1. Denial
2. Anger/hostility
3. Searching for alternatives/bargaining
4. Sadness/ Depression
5. Acceptance
✔✔Communication - ✔✔the exchange or interchange of ideas, information, feelings,
etc.., with mutual understanding of what has been transmitted
✔✔Person centered care/person centered planning - ✔✔a set of approaches designed
to assist someone to plan their life and supports. "person Centered Planning discovers
and acts on what is important to a person. It is a process for continual listening and
learning, focusing on what are important to someone now and in the future, and acting
on this in alliance with their family and their friends."
✔✔Reality Orientation - ✔✔is all about presenting info about time, place or person in
order to help a person understand their surroundings and situation.
✔✔CMS - ✔✔Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is responsible for issuing
the Federal Register (Federal Regulations) Each state then reviews these federal
guidelines and interprets them for state regulations, which will be in compliance with the
federal government standards.
✔✔1.Name 4 of the homely tasks that psychiatrist prescribed for the therapeutic effect?
- ✔✔farming cooking cleaning, gardening
✔✔The famous nurse Florence nightingale advocated for what kind of visits in the old
age wards? - ✔✔babies
✔✔. what act in 1935 provided benefits to older adults and allowed them to remain in
their own homes longer? - ✔✔Social Security
✔✔4What was the year of the Medicare act? - ✔✔1965
✔✔. What happened as a result of the Medicare act? - ✔✔It mandated long term care
✔✔Hospice has been in this country since which decade? - ✔✔1972
✔✔What year did activities first begin to be required? - ✔✔1974 rules and regs
✔✔Adult daycare was started in a psychiatric hospital in 1942 - ✔✔Soviet Union
