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10/16/24, 2:54 PMRCAL Part 2 WITH ALL CORRECT ANSWERS
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For RCFI—Staff must be awake at all times, however, if a facility is licensed for ____ or
12, 20 fewer residents, this person may be asleep during night shift. If the facility is licensed
for ___ or fewer residents and there is a sprinkler system, the staff may be asleep.
in a facility more than ___ residents, the administrator cannot be counted when
100
determining personnel requirements
All residents shall be physically and mentally capable of negotiating a normal path
5 minutes to safety unassisted or with the use of assistive devices within of being alerted
of the need to evacuate the facility
Residents suffering from short periods of incapacity due to illness, injury, or
recuperation from surgery may be allowed to remain or be readmitted from a
45
hospital if the period of incapacity does not exceed ____ days and written approval
of a physician is obtained for the resident to remain in or be readmitted to the facility
16 Residents under the age of ___ shall not be admitted
An admission physical by a physician must be obtained prior to a move-in, but it
10 days
needs to be on file not later than after admission
For infection control, category 1 diseases or findings shall be reported to the local
24 hours
health authority or to the department within of first knowledge or suspicion
For infection control, category 2 diseases or findings shall be reported to the local
3 days
health authority within of first knowledge or suspicion
For infection control, category 3 diseases shall be reported within ____ of first
24 hours
knowledge or suspicion
Meds MUST be viewed by a pharmacist, If a resident brings in unsealed medication, what has to happen?
physician, or nurse to make sure they
are ok. The person performing the
identification shall document the review.
behind at least one locked door or All medication shall be safely stored at proper temperature and shall be kept where?
cabinet
Written approval for self-control of prescription medication shall be rewritten as
annually
True or False: Medication that is not in current use and is not destroyed can be
False--stored separately
stored with medication that is in current use.
Over-the-counter medication for individual residents shall be labeled with at least
residents name
what?
cautionary instructions, expiration date, Prescribed medication labels shall say at least what?
name of meds
Injections shall be administered only by a physician or licensed nurse, except that
LIMA or CMT
insulin injections may be administered by who?
Insulin What type of injection is the ONLY injection that LIMAs and CMTs can administer?
18 Personnel must be how old to administer meds?
The facility shall employ a licensed nurse how many hours per week for every how
8 hours, 30 residents needed but at least ____ and after any period of hospitalization
many residents?
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True or False: for RCF, Physician's written and signed orders are not required for
medication orders, but if it is the facility's or physician's policy to use the orders, they
True
must include: name of the medication, dosage, frequency and route of
administration, and orders shall be renewed at least every 3 months.
If a facility requires physician's written and signed orders, how often must the orders
at least every 3 months
be renewed?
The order has been reviewed via If a medication order is taken via telephone by a medication technician or LIMA, an
telephone, fax, or in person by a nurse initial dosage shall not be administered until when?
or pharmacist.
The medication order review shall be documented by licensed nurse of pharmacist
7 days
signature within when?
7 days The physician shall sign all telephone and other verbal orders within when?
Records shall be maintained upon receipt and disposition of all controlled
2 years
substances and shall be maintained separately from other records for how long
Inventories of controlled substances that are controlled substance schedule II shall
every shift
be reconciled how often?
Inventories of controlled substances that are controlled substance schedule III-V
at least weekly
shall be reconciled how often?
1. 2 medication personnel, one a nurse Inventories of controlled substances shall be reconciled by who in RCF
2. 2 medication personnel, one the communities?
administrator when no nurse is available
on staff
3. 2 medication personnel, either CMT
or LIMAs when neither nurse nor admin
is available
date, time, resident name, med name, What 6 things must be on the administration of meds record?
dose, and initials of the individual
administering
reason for the waste and signature of documentation of the wasting of controlled substances at the time of administration
another medication staff or shall include what?
administrator who witnessed the waste
controlled substance shall be labelled When no medication staff member or administrator is available at the time of
and destroyed once someone is there to administration and controlled subastances need destroyed, what happens?
witness
controlled substance is immediately When no medication staff member or the administrator is available and the
destroyed and the circumstance needs controlled substance is contaminated by patient body fluids, what happens?
documented
At least every ______ in a residential care facility, a _____ shall review the controlled
3 months, RN or pharmacist
substances record keeping
the department's Section for Long Term Who must the facility notify for any theft or significant loss of any controlled
Care (SLTC) substance medication written as an individual prescription?
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