Chapter 1

Question 1

Intermediate care facility (ICF)

Answer 1

Facility providing 24 hr room, board, personal care, and basic health and nursing care services to three or more residents under the daily supervision of a licensed nurse and under the direction of a physician

Question 2

Adult day services

Answer 2

Care for people who need help during certain hours but do not love in the facility

Question 3

Acute care

Answer 3

24-hr skilled care for short-term illnesses or injuries, hospital or ambulatory surgical centers

Question 4

Subacute care

Answer 4

Care given in hospital or long-term care facility for people who need less care than for an acute illness, but more care than for a chronic illness

Question 5

Outpatient care

Answer 5

Given for less than 24 hrs. For people who have had treatment or surgery and need short-term skilled care

Question 6

Culture change

Answer 6

The process of transforming services for elders so that they are based on the values and practices of the person receiving care. Core values include choice, dignity, respect, self determination, and purposeful living

Question 7

Policy

Answer 7

A course of action that should be taken every time a certain situation occurs

Question 8

Procedure

Answer 8

A method, or way of doing something

Question 9

Tactful

Answer 9

Showing sensitivity and having a sense of what is appropriate when dealing with others

Question 10

Conscientious

Answer 10

Guided by a sense of right and wrong, principled

Question 11

Cite

Answer 11

I’m a long-term care facility, to find a problem through a survey

Question 12

Informed consent

Answer 12

Process in which a person, with the help or a doctor, makes informed decisions about his or her health care

Question 13

Abuse

Answer 13

Purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental or emotional pain or injury to someone

Question 14

Neglect

Answer 14

The failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental or emotional harm to a person

Question 15

Physical abuse

Answer 15

Any treatment, intentional or not, that causes harm to a persons BODY

Question 16

Psychological abuse

Answer 16

Emotional harm caused by threatening, scaring, humiliating, intimidating, isolating, or insulting a person or by treating them as a child. Also includes verbal abuse

Question 17

Assault

Answer 17

Threat to harm a person resulting in the person feeling fearful that he or she will be harmed

Question 18

Battery

Answer 18

The intentional touching or a person without his/her consent

Question 19

Involuntary seclusion

Answer 19

Separation of a person from others against the persons will

Question 20

Active neglect

Answer 20

Purposeful failure to provide needed care resulting in harm to a person

Question 21

Passive neglect

Answer 21

The unintentional failure to provide needed care resulting in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person

Question 22

MDS minimum data set

Answer 22

Detailed form with guidelines for assessing residents in long term care facilities, also details what to do if residents problems are identified

Question 23

Incident

Answer 23

Accident, problem, or unexpected event during the course of care that is not part of the normal routine on a health care facility

Question 24

Resident council

Answer 24

Group of residents who meet regularly to discuss issues related to the care facility, gives a voice in facility operations

Question 25

How soon after a resident is admitted does an MDS need to be completed?

Answer 25

14 days

Question 26

Medicare

Answer 26

For persons over 65 years old and with certain disabilities such as kidney failure

Question 27

Medicare

Answer 27

Income based and special circumstances based

Question 28

Part A

Answer 28

Helps pay for stays in hospital, skilled nursing facilities, home health care or hospice

Question 29

Part B

Answer 29

Helps pay for doctor or other medical services and equipment

Question 30

Part C

Answer 30

Allows private health insurance companies to provide Medicare benefits

Question 31

Part D

Answer 31

Helps pays for medications and prescriptions