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Nursing home administrator exam (James Allen) Questions and Answers 100% Pass 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 acquisit...

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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 - ✔✔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




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,2. Be distressed


3. Be content


4. Praise the newly hired administrator - ✔✔2


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 - ✔✔2


4. Bankruptcies among larger nursing home chains prior to 2000 _____.


1. Were frequent


2. Were ubiquitous


3. Were highly unusual


4. Were routinely declared to avoid too much accumulated debt - ✔✔3




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,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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔2


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 - ✔✔4




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, 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


4. Is out of touch - ✔✔4


9. 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 _____.


1. Agree in general


2. Agree to this special case


3. Ask the director of nursing for his or her opinion 4. Be forewarned - ✔✔4


10. The medical supplies provider tells the administrator of a facility that has not paid

bills for the past 3 months but is now operating under a bankruptcy judge's approved

plan for restructuring, that no more deliveries will be made until past bills are fully

paid. The medical supplies provider _____.


1. Is smart to cut losses at that point




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