Nursing Home Administrators Test Federal 2024 Questions With 100% Correct Answers.

Among the following positions, the _________ has no authority to make decisions for the facility. - Answer-Assistant to the administrator Decisions made by persons on the staff to whom the administrator has delegated line authority are, in the final analysis, regarded as decisions by__________. - Answer-The administrator When the nurse practioner , who is more highly qualified then the director of nursing, gives orders to nurses in the hallways, the director of nurses should feel________. - Answer-Undermined The most likely single cause for the series of bankruptcies among larger nursing home chains around the year 2000 was ______. - Answer-Paying too much for acquisitions in 1998 and 1999 In a chance conversation with the owner of an eight facility chain, the newly hired administrator for the oldest facility in the chain indicates that, because the mortgage was fully retired, the Administrator will concentrate more on being effective than efficient since quality indicators are all at or above the state average. The owner would likely_______. - Answer-Be distressed Occupancy a facility A has been a steady 70% since the prospective payment system was introduced. Two weeks ago, a new 120 bed, equally equip facility open several blocks away. Facility A administrator tells the admissions counselor to continue the usual recruitment approach. The chain owners ought to_________. - Answer-Seek a new Administrator Bankruptcies among larger nursing home chains prior to 2000________. - Answer-Were highly unusual Under the Prospective Payment System, nursing facilities' reimbursed costs _________. - AnswerWere more bundled In recent years, Medicare has_______. - Answer-Shifted more costs into nursing facilitiesThe nurse newly promoted to director of nursing insists on giving four RN hours of patient care each day on the Alzheimer's wing in the 175 bed facility. The administrator should_______. - Answer-Seek a new DON The applicant for the administrator position in a facility near a large teaching hospital insists that, as before in his rural facility, if hired he would not let the Medicare reimbursement policies affect his case mix. This applicant_________. - Answer-Is out of touch The newly hired assistant to the administrator insists that the organizational chart dotted line between this position and the Department of Nursing be a solid line. The administrator should_________. - Answer-Be forewarned