Nursing home administrator exam
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1. The most likely single cause for the series of bankruptcies
among larger nursing home chains around the year 2000 was
____.
1. Too small increases in government reimbursement rates
2. Paying too much for acquisitions in 1998 and 1999
3. Not taking advantage of falling interest rates
4. Thinking too small - Correct Answer ✅2
2. 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 is fully
retired, the administrator will concentrate more on being
effec- tive than efficient since the Quality Indicators are all at
or above the state's aver-age. The owner would likely ____.
1. Be pleased
2. Be distressed
3. Be content
4. Praise the newly hired administrator - Correct Answer
✅2
,Nursing home administrator exam
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3.
Occupancy of Facility A has been a steady 70% since the
Prospective Payment System was introduced. Two weeks ago,
a new 120-bed, equally equipped facil- ity opened several
blocks away. The Facility A administrator tells the admissions
counselor to continue the usual recruitment approach. The
chain owners ought to _____.
1. Rest comfortably
2. Seek a new administrator
3. Appoint a new admissions counselor
4. Take no action - Correct Answer ✅2
4. Bankruptcies among larger nursing home chains prior to
2000 _____.
1. Were frequent
2. Were ubiquitous
3. Were highly unusual
,Nursing home administrator exam
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4. Were routinely declared to avoid too much accumulated
debt - Correct Answer ✅3
5. Under the Prospective Payment System, nursing facilities'
reimbursed costs _____.
1. Were about the same as previously
2. Were more bundled
3. Used an unbundled cost structure
4. Were reimbursement for actual costs - Correct Answer
✅2
6. In recent years, Medicare has _____.
1. Allowed facilities to make a modest profit
2. Shifted more costs onto nursing facilities
3. Eased up on economic pressures previously placed on
facilities
4. Remained relatively unchanged in its reimbursement
structure - Correct Answer ✅2
, Nursing home administrator exam
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7. The 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 _____.
1. Praise the new director of nursing for her resident
centeredness
2. Appoint an assistant director of nursing
3. Adapt the job description to fit her pattern
4. Seek a new director of nursing - Correct Answer ✅4
8. The applicant for the administrator position in a facility
near a large teaching hospital insists that, as before in his
rural facility, if hied he would not let the Medicare
reimbursement policies affect his case mix. This applicant
_____.
1. Should be hired
2. Is likely to succeed if hired
3. Can likely succeed in his goal
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