ACTIVITY DIRECTOR FINAL PAPER ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
GRADED A+
✔✔Norms and expectations - ✔✔Specific standards or definitions of what is to be found
when conducting an evaluation or QAPI
✔✔QAPI - ✔✔Quality Assessment & Performance Improvement
✔✔Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) - ✔✔the practice of continuously evaluating
and improving rather than reaching a plateau of quality or acceptance
✔✔departmentalization - ✔✔the basis for grouping positions into departments and
departments into the total organization
✔✔Regulation Requirements - ✔✔A rule or directive made and maintained by an
authority state regulations are in place for nursing homes, medical daycare centers and
assisted living. Federal regulations are in place for nursing only
✔✔CMS - ✔✔Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
✔✔Survey Process - ✔✔Methodology that the state/federal surveyors practice when
inspecting care facilities.
✔✔Interpretive Guidelines - ✔✔Publication to help nursing facilities follow the law and
aid surveyors to enforce the law.
✔✔Advocacy - ✔✔to act, speak,or write in support of an issue
✔✔person-directed care - ✔✔The model of care which encourages the person to make
decisions about services and care provided and more importantly that staff honor the
person's wishes
✔✔validation therapy - ✔✔Founded by Naomi Feil an empathetic approach which
focuses on accepting the residents where they are joining their world
✔✔crystallized intelligence - ✔✔One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends
to increase with age
✔✔Re-motivation therapy - ✔✔5 step group process designed for individual in a
depressed state or in early stages of dementia. Utilized real objects, stimulate, senses,
and encourage a new motivation for life utilizing poem, picture, animal, hobbies group
interaction
, ✔✔medical model - ✔✔the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be
diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured. When applied to psychological disorders,
the medical model assumes that these mental illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis
of their symptoms and cured through therapy, which may include treatment in a
psychiatric hospital.
✔✔long Term Care Model - ✔✔Continuous care over longer time
✔✔Wellness Model - ✔✔6 aspect physical , mental, emotional, social, spiritual, and
environmental aspects of health
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔independence
✔✔Metamessages - ✔✔the underlying intention of verbal communication when people
are indirect with their comments, thus adding to miscommunication.
✔✔CAD - ✔✔coronary artery disease
✔✔COTA - ✔✔certified occupational therapist assistant
✔✔ASHD - ✔✔arteriosclerotic heart disease
✔✔DRG - ✔✔diagnostic related group
✔✔Qd - ✔✔every day
✔✔QI - ✔✔quality improvement
✔✔PPS - ✔✔Prospective Payment System
✔✔Casper - ✔✔Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports
✔✔Qh - ✔✔every hour
✔✔P& P - ✔✔policies and procedures
✔✔SDS - ✔✔Safety Data Sheet
✔✔SSI - ✔✔Social Security Income
✔✔F550 - ✔✔Resident Rights/Exercise of Rights
✔✔F552 - ✔✔Right to be Informed/Make Treatment Decisions
GRADED A+
✔✔Norms and expectations - ✔✔Specific standards or definitions of what is to be found
when conducting an evaluation or QAPI
✔✔QAPI - ✔✔Quality Assessment & Performance Improvement
✔✔Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) - ✔✔the practice of continuously evaluating
and improving rather than reaching a plateau of quality or acceptance
✔✔departmentalization - ✔✔the basis for grouping positions into departments and
departments into the total organization
✔✔Regulation Requirements - ✔✔A rule or directive made and maintained by an
authority state regulations are in place for nursing homes, medical daycare centers and
assisted living. Federal regulations are in place for nursing only
✔✔CMS - ✔✔Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
✔✔Survey Process - ✔✔Methodology that the state/federal surveyors practice when
inspecting care facilities.
✔✔Interpretive Guidelines - ✔✔Publication to help nursing facilities follow the law and
aid surveyors to enforce the law.
✔✔Advocacy - ✔✔to act, speak,or write in support of an issue
✔✔person-directed care - ✔✔The model of care which encourages the person to make
decisions about services and care provided and more importantly that staff honor the
person's wishes
✔✔validation therapy - ✔✔Founded by Naomi Feil an empathetic approach which
focuses on accepting the residents where they are joining their world
✔✔crystallized intelligence - ✔✔One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends
to increase with age
✔✔Re-motivation therapy - ✔✔5 step group process designed for individual in a
depressed state or in early stages of dementia. Utilized real objects, stimulate, senses,
and encourage a new motivation for life utilizing poem, picture, animal, hobbies group
interaction
, ✔✔medical model - ✔✔the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be
diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured. When applied to psychological disorders,
the medical model assumes that these mental illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis
of their symptoms and cured through therapy, which may include treatment in a
psychiatric hospital.
✔✔long Term Care Model - ✔✔Continuous care over longer time
✔✔Wellness Model - ✔✔6 aspect physical , mental, emotional, social, spiritual, and
environmental aspects of health
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔independence
✔✔Metamessages - ✔✔the underlying intention of verbal communication when people
are indirect with their comments, thus adding to miscommunication.
✔✔CAD - ✔✔coronary artery disease
✔✔COTA - ✔✔certified occupational therapist assistant
✔✔ASHD - ✔✔arteriosclerotic heart disease
✔✔DRG - ✔✔diagnostic related group
✔✔Qd - ✔✔every day
✔✔QI - ✔✔quality improvement
✔✔PPS - ✔✔Prospective Payment System
✔✔Casper - ✔✔Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports
✔✔Qh - ✔✔every hour
✔✔P& P - ✔✔policies and procedures
✔✔SDS - ✔✔Safety Data Sheet
✔✔SSI - ✔✔Social Security Income
✔✔F550 - ✔✔Resident Rights/Exercise of Rights
✔✔F552 - ✔✔Right to be Informed/Make Treatment Decisions
