Illinois Nursing Home Administrator
Exam #1 2025/2026 Exam Questions and
Correct Answers | New Update
Line Authority - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Line Authority is exercised by supervisors who
have direct authority and responsibility for the work of a unit, including the right to
command subordinates to act and to fire them if they disobey.
Staff Authority - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Staff Authority is exercised by someone hired or
retained to provide advice or technical support which persons in line positions may
accept, alter, or reject. Examples are legal counsel or RN-consultants. But not
assistant administrators or assistant department heads: these reflect the wishes of
the line officers they serve and share in their line authority.
Functional Authority - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Functional Authority is limited to certain
specialized functions for which one has responsibility throughout the facility, even
though someone else may have line authority over the employees performing these
activities. E.g., certain personnel functions under a human resources director.
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, Unity of Command - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Unity of Command = making each employee
responsible to one and only one supervisor. Employees who report to more than
one supervisor often experience conflicting orders and divided loyalties. Clear
lines of authority may promote job satisfaction and thus productivity.
adjudication - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A determination by court of law or an
administrative body with quasi-judicial functions.
amicus curiae - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A person who has no right to appear in a pending
suit but is allowed by the court to introduce argument or evidence, as a "friend of
the court".
assumption of the risk - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A legal theory which states that an
individual who is aware of the hazards of an activity but engages in that activity
nevertheless cannot recover damages if he or she is injured by that hazard.
bona fide - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔In good faith; openly, honestly, or innocently; without
knowledge or intend of fraud.
borrowed servant - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An employee temporarily under the control of
another, such as a nurse which is employed by a hospital and who is "borrowed" by
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Exam #1 2025/2026 Exam Questions and
Correct Answers | New Update
Line Authority - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Line Authority is exercised by supervisors who
have direct authority and responsibility for the work of a unit, including the right to
command subordinates to act and to fire them if they disobey.
Staff Authority - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Staff Authority is exercised by someone hired or
retained to provide advice or technical support which persons in line positions may
accept, alter, or reject. Examples are legal counsel or RN-consultants. But not
assistant administrators or assistant department heads: these reflect the wishes of
the line officers they serve and share in their line authority.
Functional Authority - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Functional Authority is limited to certain
specialized functions for which one has responsibility throughout the facility, even
though someone else may have line authority over the employees performing these
activities. E.g., certain personnel functions under a human resources director.
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 1
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Unity of Command - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Unity of Command = making each employee
responsible to one and only one supervisor. Employees who report to more than
one supervisor often experience conflicting orders and divided loyalties. Clear
lines of authority may promote job satisfaction and thus productivity.
adjudication - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A determination by court of law or an
administrative body with quasi-judicial functions.
amicus curiae - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A person who has no right to appear in a pending
suit but is allowed by the court to introduce argument or evidence, as a "friend of
the court".
assumption of the risk - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A legal theory which states that an
individual who is aware of the hazards of an activity but engages in that activity
nevertheless cannot recover damages if he or she is injured by that hazard.
bona fide - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔In good faith; openly, honestly, or innocently; without
knowledge or intend of fraud.
borrowed servant - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An employee temporarily under the control of
another, such as a nurse which is employed by a hospital and who is "borrowed" by
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 2
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
