Wisconsin NHA Exam
How much of a supply of an individual resident's drugs may be held by the facility?
✔️ The supply shall not exceed 4 days for any one resident.
What is an Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber?
✔️ A person who has been granted a certificate to issue prescription orders.
What is an Authorized Prescriber?
✔️ A person licensed in this state to prescribe medications, treatments, or rehabilitative therapies.
What does "Dietitian" mean?
✔️ a) certified under s.448.78 stats
✔️ b) licensed or certified as a dietitian in another state.
,What is "full-time"?
✔️ 37.5 hours each week devoted to facility business.
What is "IMD"?
✔️ Institution for Mental Diseases.
What is Intensive Skilled Nursing Care?
✔️ Care requiring specialized nursing assessment skills and the performance of specific services and
procedures that are complex because of the resident's condition or the type or number of procedures
that are necessary.
What is an "Intermediate Care Facility"?
✔️ A nursing home which is licensed by the department as an intermediate care facility to provide
intermediate nursing care.
What is "Intermediate Nursing Care"?
,✔️ Basic care consisting of physical, emotional, social, and other rehabilitative services under periodic
medical supervision. The nursing care requires the skill of a registered nurse for observation and
recording of reactions and symptoms, and for supervision of nursing care.
What is "involuntary administration of psychotropic medication"?
✔️ It can mean any of the following:
a) placing psychotropic medication in an individual's food or drink with knowledge that the individual
protests receipt of the psychotropic medication.
b) Forcibly restraining an individual to enable administration of psychotropic medication.
c) Requiring an individual to take psychotropic medication as a condition of receiving privileges or
benefits.
What does "limited nursing care" mean?
✔️ It means simple nursing care procedures required by residents with long-term illnesses or
disabilities in order to maintain stability and which can be provided safely only by or under the
supervision of a person no less skilled than a licensed practical nurse who works under the direction of a
registered nurse.
, What is a "nursing assistant"?
✔️ A person who is employed primarily to provide direct care services to residents but is not registered
or licensed.
What is a "physician extender"?
✔️ A person who is a physician's assistant or a nurse practitioner acting under the general supervision
and direction of a physician.
What does "protest" mean?
✔️ To make more than one discernible negative response, other than mere silence, to the offer of,
recommendation for, or other proffering of voluntary receipt of psychotropic medication. "Protest" does
not mean a discernible negative response to a proposed method of administration of the psychotropic
medication.
How long is "Recuperative Care" anticipated to be provided for?
How much of a supply of an individual resident's drugs may be held by the facility?
✔️ The supply shall not exceed 4 days for any one resident.
What is an Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber?
✔️ A person who has been granted a certificate to issue prescription orders.
What is an Authorized Prescriber?
✔️ A person licensed in this state to prescribe medications, treatments, or rehabilitative therapies.
What does "Dietitian" mean?
✔️ a) certified under s.448.78 stats
✔️ b) licensed or certified as a dietitian in another state.
,What is "full-time"?
✔️ 37.5 hours each week devoted to facility business.
What is "IMD"?
✔️ Institution for Mental Diseases.
What is Intensive Skilled Nursing Care?
✔️ Care requiring specialized nursing assessment skills and the performance of specific services and
procedures that are complex because of the resident's condition or the type or number of procedures
that are necessary.
What is an "Intermediate Care Facility"?
✔️ A nursing home which is licensed by the department as an intermediate care facility to provide
intermediate nursing care.
What is "Intermediate Nursing Care"?
,✔️ Basic care consisting of physical, emotional, social, and other rehabilitative services under periodic
medical supervision. The nursing care requires the skill of a registered nurse for observation and
recording of reactions and symptoms, and for supervision of nursing care.
What is "involuntary administration of psychotropic medication"?
✔️ It can mean any of the following:
a) placing psychotropic medication in an individual's food or drink with knowledge that the individual
protests receipt of the psychotropic medication.
b) Forcibly restraining an individual to enable administration of psychotropic medication.
c) Requiring an individual to take psychotropic medication as a condition of receiving privileges or
benefits.
What does "limited nursing care" mean?
✔️ It means simple nursing care procedures required by residents with long-term illnesses or
disabilities in order to maintain stability and which can be provided safely only by or under the
supervision of a person no less skilled than a licensed practical nurse who works under the direction of a
registered nurse.
, What is a "nursing assistant"?
✔️ A person who is employed primarily to provide direct care services to residents but is not registered
or licensed.
What is a "physician extender"?
✔️ A person who is a physician's assistant or a nurse practitioner acting under the general supervision
and direction of a physician.
What does "protest" mean?
✔️ To make more than one discernible negative response, other than mere silence, to the offer of,
recommendation for, or other proffering of voluntary receipt of psychotropic medication. "Protest" does
not mean a discernible negative response to a proposed method of administration of the psychotropic
medication.
How long is "Recuperative Care" anticipated to be provided for?
