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1. Every skilled care facility and immediate care facility shall employ a full-time
director of nursing services who must be an RN and is responsible for:
- Correct Answer:
a) Supervising the functions, activities and training of the
nursing personnel
b) Developing and maintaining standard nursing practice,
nursing policy and procedure manuals, and written job
descriptions for each level of nursing personnel
c) Coordinating nursing services with other resident services
d) Designating the charge nurses
e) Being on call at all times
f) Ensuring that the duties of nursing personnel shall be clearly
defined and assigned to staff members consistent with level
of education, preparation, experience, and licensing of each
2. A skilled nursing facility must have at least ____ charge nurse on duty at all
times - Correct Answer: 1
,3. A facility with fewer than _____ residents in need of skilled nursing care
shall have at least one RN (who may be the DON) on duty as charge nurse
every daytime tour of duty - Correct Answer: 60
4. A facility with 60-74 residents in need of skilled nursing care, in addition to
a DON, shall have at least ____ RN on duty as charge nurse during every
daytime tour of duty - Correct Answer: 1
5. A facility with _____ to ____ residents in need of skilled nursing care shall
have, in addition to the DON, at least 1 RN on duty as charge nurse during
every daytime tour of duty. In addition, the facility shall have at least one
RN on duty as charge nurse every day on at least one other non-daytime
tour of duty. - Correct Answer: 75 to 99
6. A facility with 100 or more residents in need of skilled nursing care shall
have, in addition to the DON, at least one RN on duty as charge nurse how
often? - Correct Answer: AT ALL TIMES
7. An intermediate care facility shall have a charge nurse when? - Correct
Answer: During every daytime tour of duty, who may be the DON
8. What are the conditions of allowing an LPN to serve as a charge nurse? -
Correct Answer: An LPN who serves as a charge nurse shall be under the
supervision and direction of a RN who is either in the facility or on call.
9. A qualified director of food services is a person responsible for
implementation of dietary services functions in the nursing home and
, meeting any of the following requirements: - Correct Answer: a) Is a
dietitian
b) Has completed at least a course of study in food service management
approved by the dietary managers association or an equivalent
c) Holds an associate degree as a dietetic technician from a program approved
by the American dietetics association
10.What is required when the director of food services is not a dietitian? -
Correct Answer: The director of food services shall consult with a qualified
dietitian on a frequent and regularly scheduled basis.
11.Therapeutic diets shall be served only on? - Correct Answer: Only on
order of the physician
12.Table Service - Correct Answer: The facility shall provide table service in
dining rooms for all residents who can and want to eat at a table, including
residents in wheelchairs.
13.Drinking water requirements - Correct Answer: When a resident is
confined to bed, a covered pitcher of drinking water and a glass shall be
provided on a bedside stand. The water shall be changed frequently during
the day, and pitchers and glasses shall be sanitized daily.
14.All readily perishable food and drink, except when being prepared or
served, shall be kept in a refrigerator which shall have a temperature
maintained at? - Correct Answer: 40 degrees F or below
, 15.Within how long of the initiation of rehab treatment, must a report of the
resident's progress be made to the physician? - Correct Answer: Within
2 weeks
16.How often shall rehab services be re-evaluated by the physician and
therapists? - Correct Answer: At least quarterly
17.Who must the emergency medication kit be under control of? - Correct
Answer: A facility may have one or more emergency medication kits. All
medication kits shall be under the control of a pharmacist.
18.Where shall contingency drugs be stored? - Correct Answer: At a
nursing unit, except those medications requiring refrigeration shall be
stored in a refrigerator.
19.What type of containers shall contingency medications be stored in? -
Correct Answer: In single unit containers. A unit being a single capsule,
tablet, tubex, or suppository
20.Who determines which medications and strengths of medications are to be
stocked in the contingency storage unit and procedures for use and re-
stocking? - Correct Answer: The quality assessment and assurance
committee
21.Unless controlled by a ______-___-____ system, a copy of the pharmacy
communication order shall be placed in the contingency storage unit when
any medication is removed. - Correct Answer: Proof-of-use