Texas State Nursing Home
Administrator Test Questions and
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Medicaid specific requirements apply to? - ✔✔All residents, including, but not limited
to private-pay. Medicaid applicants and recipients, VA patients, and Medicare
recipients, who are admitted to and reside in a Medicaid certified facility or a Medicaid-
certified distinct part of a facility. These requirements do not apply to SNFs licensed
under the Health and Safety Code Chapter 241, participating only in the Medicare
program
Abuse - ✔✔Negligent or willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement,
intimidation, or punishment with resulting physical or emotional harm or pain to a
resident; or sexual abuse, including involuntary or nonconsensual sexual conduct that
would constitute an offense under Penal Code §21.08 (indecent exposure) or Penal Code
Chapter 22 (assaultive offenses), sexual harassment, sexual coercion, or sexual assault.
Act - ✔✔Chapter 242 of the Texas Health and Safety Code.
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,Admission MDS assessment - ✔✔An MDS assessment that determines a recipient's
initial determination of eligibility for medical necessity for admission into the Texas
Medicaid Nursing Facility Program.
Advanced practice registered nurse - ✔✔A person licensed by the Texas Board of
Nursing as an advanced practice registered nurse.
Agent - ✔✔An adult to whom authority to make health care decisions is delegated
under a durable power of attorney for health care.
APA - ✔✔The Administrative Procedure Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 2001.
Attending physician - ✔✔A physician, currently licensed by the Texas Medical Board,
who is designated by the resident or responsible party as having primary responsibility
for the treatment and care of the resident.
Authorized electronic monitoring - ✔✔The placement of an electronic monitoring
device in a resident's room and using the device to make tapes or recordings after
making a request to the facility to allow electronic monitoring.
Barrier precautions - ✔✔Precautions including the use of gloves, masks, gowns,
resuscitation equipment, eye protectors, aprons, face shields, and protective clothing for
purposes of infection control.
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,Care and treatment - ✔✔Services required to maximize resident independence,
personal choice, participation, health, self-care, psychosocial functioning and reasonable
safety, all consistent with the preferences of the resident.
Certification - ✔✔The determination by HHSC that a nursing facility meets all the
requirements of the Medicaid or Medicare programs.
Change of ownership - ✔✔An event that results in a change to the federal taxpayer
identification number of the license holder of a facility. The substitution of a personal
representative for a deceased license holder is not a change of ownership.
CFR - ✔✔Code of Federal Regulations.
Complaint - ✔✔Any allegation received by HHSC other than an incident reported by
the facility. Such allegations include, but are not limited to, abuse, neglect, exploitation,
or violation of state or federal standards.
Completion date - ✔✔The date an RN assessment coordinator signs an MDS assessment
as complete.
Comprehensive assessment - ✔✔An interdisciplinary description of a resident's needs
and capabilities including daily life functions and significant impairments of functional
capacity.
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, Comprehensive care plan - ✔✔A plan of care prepared by an interdisciplinary team that
includes measurable short-term and long-term objectives and timetables to meet the
resident's needs developed for each resident after admission. The plan addresses at least
the following needs: medical, nursing, rehabilitative, psychosocial, dietary, activity, and
resident's rights. The plan includes strategies developed by the team, consistent with
the physician's prescribed plan of care, to assist the resident in eliminating, managing,
or alleviating health or psychosocial problems identified through assessment.
Comprehensive Care Plan includes? - ✔✔(A) goal setting;
(B) establishing priorities for management of care;
(C) making decisions about specific measures to be used to resolve the resident's
problems; and
(D) assisting in the development of appropriate coping mechanisms.
Covert electronic monitoring - ✔✔The placement and use of an electronic monitoring
device that is not open and obvious, and the facility and HHSC have not been informed
about the device by the resident, by a person who placed the device in the room, or by a
person who uses the device.
DADS - ✔✔The term referred to the Department of Aging and Disability Services; it
now refers to HHSC.
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