WGU D118 UPDATED STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is the desire to control outcomes and experience mastery over one's own life. -
✔✔competence
✔✔What are the three conditions must be met for a decision to be named autonomous?
- ✔✔mental capacity, sufficient information, voluntary decision
✔✔What is the SUPER approach? - ✔✔setup, understanding, priorities, explain and
review
✔✔Which is one of the least likely reasons that an older adult would be moved to a
higher level of care? - ✔✔desire to be cared for
✔✔What are two tools a health services coordinator can use to prevent a further
escalation of care for patients with chronic conditions. - ✔✔health promotion and
disease management
✔✔Under what Act do individuals who make a "good faith report" have immunity from
any form of retaliation. - ✔✔Older Americans Act
, ✔✔occurs when a caregiver deprives a patient of something necessary. - ✔✔neglect
✔✔Older American Act did what? - ✔✔funding for community based programs for older
adults; nutrition assistance, low-income housing, community service, aging/disability
centers, long-term care program
✔✔Elder Justice Act of 2009 - ✔✔response to the underreporting of elder abuse.
✔✔What was the response to the underreporting of elder abuse. - ✔✔nursing home
reform act 1987
✔✔What three needs does self determination need? - ✔✔autonomy, competence, and
relatedness
✔✔What is the term that refers to a new loss of independence or a growing inability to
complete self-care capabilities without assistance - ✔✔funcitional decline
✔✔Give some examples of ADL? - ✔✔eating, bathing, using the toilet, walking,
dressing, transferring out of bed
✔✔What is the greatest predictor of functional decline? - ✔✔hospitalization
✔✔The Timed Up and Go Test (TUG) - ✔✔used by physical therapists and
occupational therapists (assessement of functioning).. tests basic mobility skills in adults
and determines fall risk
✔✔What is a reliable indicator of falls? - ✔✔gait instability
✔✔Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE) - ✔✔used by social workers, psychologists,
psychiatrists, adult protective services investigators, and care plan nurses in long-term
care facilities.
✔✔What does the MMSE test? - ✔✔cognitive impairment
✔✔Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) - ✔✔used by social workers, care coordinators,
nurses, psychologists, and psychiatrists.
✔✔Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) - ✔✔used by
substance abuse counselors, emergency department staff, acute care staff, and intake
coordinators.
✔✔comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) - ✔✔holistic assessment technique
meant to provide information about all aspects of a patient's functioning.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is the desire to control outcomes and experience mastery over one's own life. -
✔✔competence
✔✔What are the three conditions must be met for a decision to be named autonomous?
- ✔✔mental capacity, sufficient information, voluntary decision
✔✔What is the SUPER approach? - ✔✔setup, understanding, priorities, explain and
review
✔✔Which is one of the least likely reasons that an older adult would be moved to a
higher level of care? - ✔✔desire to be cared for
✔✔What are two tools a health services coordinator can use to prevent a further
escalation of care for patients with chronic conditions. - ✔✔health promotion and
disease management
✔✔Under what Act do individuals who make a "good faith report" have immunity from
any form of retaliation. - ✔✔Older Americans Act
, ✔✔occurs when a caregiver deprives a patient of something necessary. - ✔✔neglect
✔✔Older American Act did what? - ✔✔funding for community based programs for older
adults; nutrition assistance, low-income housing, community service, aging/disability
centers, long-term care program
✔✔Elder Justice Act of 2009 - ✔✔response to the underreporting of elder abuse.
✔✔What was the response to the underreporting of elder abuse. - ✔✔nursing home
reform act 1987
✔✔What three needs does self determination need? - ✔✔autonomy, competence, and
relatedness
✔✔What is the term that refers to a new loss of independence or a growing inability to
complete self-care capabilities without assistance - ✔✔funcitional decline
✔✔Give some examples of ADL? - ✔✔eating, bathing, using the toilet, walking,
dressing, transferring out of bed
✔✔What is the greatest predictor of functional decline? - ✔✔hospitalization
✔✔The Timed Up and Go Test (TUG) - ✔✔used by physical therapists and
occupational therapists (assessement of functioning).. tests basic mobility skills in adults
and determines fall risk
✔✔What is a reliable indicator of falls? - ✔✔gait instability
✔✔Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE) - ✔✔used by social workers, psychologists,
psychiatrists, adult protective services investigators, and care plan nurses in long-term
care facilities.
✔✔What does the MMSE test? - ✔✔cognitive impairment
✔✔Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) - ✔✔used by social workers, care coordinators,
nurses, psychologists, and psychiatrists.
✔✔Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) - ✔✔used by
substance abuse counselors, emergency department staff, acute care staff, and intake
coordinators.
✔✔comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) - ✔✔holistic assessment technique
meant to provide information about all aspects of a patient's functioning.
