The Licensing Exam Review Guide in Nursing Home Administration, Seventh Edition

by James E. Allen PhD, MSPH, NHA, IP

Overview

"...[A]n invaluable tool if used as a study guide... Long term care is continually changing and this seventh edition includes some of these changes and updates the sample questions to align with them. This is an excellent tool for anyone preparing to take the national licensing exam. Score: 95 - 4 Stars!"

—Dave Walker, BSE, LNHA, MU Sinclair School of Nursing, Doody's Reviews

Sixth Edition A Doody’s Core Title!

The seventh edition of this classic review guide for nursing home administration licensure is revised and updated to reflect new information as recentlymandated for the federally required national exam. It is based on the same format as the actual exam and provides an easy-to-use, effective way to reviewessential concepts and practice test-taking skills.

The seventh edition reflects all changes to the new exam and includes more than 1,000 test questions with answer keys. Contains cross-references to thepage in Nursing Home Administration, Seventh Edition, where each question topic is discussed, and new content specific to the NAB exam. With coreinformation on management, governance, and leadership; finance and business; environment; resident and patient care; and human resources—plus savvytest-taking strategies—it includes everything you need for exam success.

New to the Seventh Edition:

• New questions and answers reflecting all updates and revisions
• New laws and federal regulations
• Impacts of the ACA on long-term care
• MDS 3.0
• 2015 federal requirements for electronic health records
• New RAI (Resident Assessment Instrument)
• New quality indicators
• New lifestyle safety code inspection processes
• New ICD-10-CM (International Classification of Diseases‚ÄìClinical Modification, 10th Revision)
• New topics including transportation options, customer care, data security, social media, contractual agreements, information management and technology, and much, much more

Key Features:

• More than 1,000 questions with answer key
• Core information on management, governance, and leadership; finance and business; environment; nursing: resident/patient care; and human resources
• Test-taking strategies for success

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826136589
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	12/02/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
Sales rank:	544,463
File size:	366 KB

About the Author

James E. Allen, PhD, MSPH, NHA, IP, is President of Long Term Care Education.com, a national resource website for information on the long-term care field. He is also President of ANCCceus-Nursing Education.com, a nationally approved CEUS for nurses, and Professor, Health Policy and Administration Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction: Uses of This Study Guide for the NAB Domains of Practice

Format of the National Exam

The “One-Best-Answer” Testing Format

Deciding What the Question Is

Deciding What the Answer Is

Strategies for Test Taking

PART 1: NAB DOMAIN: MANAGEMENT, GOVERNANCE, AND LEADERSHIP *

Learning How to Manage the Health Care Organization

1.1 Management Functions

1.1.1 Levels of Management

1.1.2 Line–Staff Relationships

1.2 Forecasting

1.3 Planning

1.3.1 Why Plan?

1.3.2 Steps in Planning

1.4 Organizing

1.5 Staffing

1.6 Directing

1.6.1 Policy Making

1.6.2 Making a Decision

1.6.3 Leading

1.6.4 Power and Authority

1.6.5 Communication Skills

1.6.6 Organizational Norms and Values: Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice

1.6.7 Related Concepts

1.7 Comparing and Controlling Quality

1.7.2 Diagnosing/Organizational Quality

1.8 Innovating

1.9 Marketing the Long-Term Care Facility

1.9.1 The Turn to Marketing

1.9.2 The “Marketing” of Health Care

1.9.3 Developing a Marketing Strategy

PART 2: NAB DOMAIN: HUMAN RESOURCES

Understanding the Departments and Managing Human Resources

2.1 Organization of the Nursing Facility and Its Staff: Emergence of the “MDS” Coordinator

2.2 Identifying the Human Resources Functions

2.3 Planning Employment Needs: Writing Job Descriptions

2.6 Hiring Staff

2.7 Training Staff

2.8 Retaining Employees

2.9 Evaluating Employees

2.10 Paying Employees

2.11 Disciplining Employees

PART 3: NAB DOMAIN: FINANCE/BUSINESS

Learning to Manage the Organization’s Finances

3.10.1 Sources of Law

3.10.2 The Court Systems

3.10.3 Legal Terminology

3.10.4 Risks Assumed by the Operation of a Long-Term Care Facility

PART 4: NAB DOMAIN: ENVIRONMENT

Learning the Continuum of Long-Term Care

4.1 Origins, Overview, and Current Profile of the Nursing Home Industry

4.2 The Social Security Act: Medicare and Medicaid

4.5 Workplace Safety: The Occupational Safety and Health Act

4.6 Fire Safety: The Life Safety Code^®

4.7 Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guidelines for Facilities

4.8 Expanding Facility Services: Health Planning Regulations

4.9 Voluntary Operating Standards: The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations

PART 5: NAB DOMAIN: PATIENT/RESIDENT CARE

Building Your Resident Care Skills

5.1 The Aging Process: Overview and Theories

5.2 Medical and Related Terms

5.2.1 Specializations

5.2.2 Medications/Therapeutic Actions of Drugs

5.2.3 Abbreviations

5.2.4 Prefixes

5.2.5 Suffixes

5.3 The Aging Process as It Relates to Diseases Common to the Nursing Home Population

PART 6: FACILITY POLICIES

Putting the Systems Together

6.1 Setting Policies for the Facility

6.1.1 Administration Policies

Resource Utilization

Mental Illness

Compliance With Laws

Governing Body

Transfer Agreement

Changes in Ownership

6.1.2 Personnel Policies

Properly Qualified Activities Program Professional

Social Services

Registered Nurse

Consultant Pharmacist

Training of Nurse’s Aides

Regular In-Service Education

Use of Outside Resources

Disaster and Emergency Preparedness

Not Employing Certain Individuals

6.1.3 Dietary

6.1.4 Admissions Policies

6.1.6 Rehabilitation Policies

6.1.7 Resident’s Rights

Incompetence/Competence

Resident’s Exercise of Rights Without Reprisal

Resident’s Rights to All Records

Resident’s Rights to Full Total Health Status Information

Resident’s Rights to Advance Directives and to Refuse Treatment and/or Research

Work

Protection of Resident’s Funds

Allowable Charges

Work

Mail Rights in Sending and Receiving

Access and Visitation Rights

Furniture

Married Couples Sharing a Room

Self-Administration of Drugs (Requirements)

Resident Transfers

Family Meetings

Private Pay

Payments

Freedom From Restraints

Abuse

Restraints

6.1.8 Quality Assessment and Assurance: Meeting the Holistic Needs of the Care Recipients

Roommate and Room Changes

Quality Assessment and Assurance

6.1.9 Dietary

Substitutes

6.1.10 Environmental Management

Preventive Maintenance

6.1.11 Infection Control

6.1.12 Physician Services

Plan D

Nurse’s Aide Training

6.1.13 Dental Care

6.1.14 Nursing Requirements

Standards of Quality

6.1.15 Quality of Care Using the Resident Assessment Instrument to Ensure Care Recipient Satisfaction

6.1.16 Pharmacy

6.1.17 Medical Records

6.2 Developing a Person-Centered Care Plan

Resident Assessment Instrument

6.3 The Quality Indicators Survey

6.4 The Report Card

6.5 Getting Reimbursed for Care Given

The Prospective Payment System

The Minimum Data Set (MDS)

The Resource Utilization Group (RUG) Classification System

Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)

Reimbursement

Answers and Rationale for Questions 1 to 31

Answer Key

*Numbering of headings in this Review Guide corresponds to key headings in Nursing Home Administration, Seventh Edition.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Dave Walker, BSE, LNHA (University of Missouri)
Description: This study guide for the national licensing exam to become a licensed nursing home administrator covers all the domains of practice that are on the exam.
Purpose: The purpose is to help people prepare for the national exam of nursing home administrators. It is an invaluable tool if used as a study guide.
Audience: The audience is anyone who is preparing to take the national licensing exam.
Features: The book includes study questions from all the domains of practice and is an excellent study guide. It also references all the study questions to a companion publication so readers can research the correct answers. The answer key is in the back of the book. It would helpful if it included a rationale on why an answer is the best answer.
Assessment: As far as I know, this is the only book of its kind that actually has sample test questions that can be used as a study guide. It gives readers a chance to actually take a practice exam and do additional research if they don't answer the question correctly. Long term care is continually changing and this seventh edition includes some of these changes and updates the sample questions to align with them. This is an excellent tool for anyone preparing to take the national licensing exam.

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