RCFE ADMINISTRATOR TEST (CALIFORNIA RCFE
ADMINSTRATOR TEST) ACTUAL EXAM
Administrator - ANSWER: manages the facility on behalf of the licensee. (may be
the licensee)
Advanced Health Care Directive - ANSWER: written instruction on the provision of
the resident if they're incapacitated
Ambulatory Person - ANSWER: resident is mentally competent and can leave a
building in an emergency without help or medical aid
Basic Services - ANSWER: must provide the following basic services: safe and
healthy living place, personal assistance and care, observation and supervision,
planned activities, food service, arrangements for obtaining incidental medical and
dental care
California Clearance - ANSWER: can't have felony or misdemeanor conviction
Capacity - ANSWER: max limit # of people allowed in care of a facility
care and supervision - ANSWER: includes assisting in dressing, bathing, medicines,
transportation, storing/ distributing medicin, house rule maintenance, supervision
of schedules and activities, supervision of resident's property and food intake/diet
certicate holder - ANSWER: a person who has a current administrator's certificate
regardless if they're actually employed as an administrator in a facility or not.
DIFFERENT FROM CERTIFIED ADMINSTRATOR
certified administrator - ANSWER: administrator who has a current RCFE Certificate
and is employed in a facility as an administrator
Close Friend - ANSWER: attached to another by feeling of personal regard as
indicated by both parties involved
community care facility - ANSWER: any facility/place/building providing nonmedica
care and supervision
Conservator - ANSWER: appointed by the superior court to care for the person or
estate or person and estate of adult
COnsultant - ANSWER: person qualified to provide expert info on a subject
Control Of property - ANSWER: right to enter occupy and maintain the operation of
the facility
, Criminal Record Clearance - ANSWER: individual has BOTH California clearance and
FBI Clearance
Deficieny - ANSWER: failure to comply with department regulations
Serious Deficiencies - ANSWER: -fire clearance, #/type of residents, telephone
service, residents with prohibited health conditions, non ambulatory residents,
restraints, safety, food storage, preparation and service, medicine
storage/dispensing, hot water temperature, bathroom, storage of needles and
waste, night supervision,
Delayed Egress Device - ANSWER: egress control divide of time delay used for
alzheimer or dementia residents
Dementia - ANSWER: Loss of intellectual function (thinking, remembering, reading,
exercising judgement and making decisions) and other cognitive functions.
Dementia is not a disease itself but a group of symptoms that may accompany
certain conditions or diseases including alzheimer's disease. Symptoms may
include changes in personality, mood and or behavior. it is irreversible when
caused by disease or injury but may be reversible when caused by depression drug
alcohol or hormone imbalance
Department - ANSWER: refers to the California State Department of Social Services
Direct Care staff - ANSWER: provide direct care to residents
Director - ANSWER: refers to the Director of the State Department of Social
Services
Do Not Resuscitate DNR form - ANSWER: completed by the resident or (in some
instances) a resident's Health Care Surrogate Decision Maker and by a physician,
alert pre-hospital emergency medical services personal to the resident's wishes to
forego resuscitative measures in the event of the resident's cardiac or respiratory
arrest
Documentation - ANSWER: supportive info including but not limited to the
Licensing Report
Egress Alert Device - ANSWER: device worn by a resident that triggers alarm when
resident leaves the building
Eldery Person - ANSWER: over 60 years of age
Evaluator - ANSWER: department agent that is authorized by contract to license
community care facilities
ADMINSTRATOR TEST) ACTUAL EXAM
Administrator - ANSWER: manages the facility on behalf of the licensee. (may be
the licensee)
Advanced Health Care Directive - ANSWER: written instruction on the provision of
the resident if they're incapacitated
Ambulatory Person - ANSWER: resident is mentally competent and can leave a
building in an emergency without help or medical aid
Basic Services - ANSWER: must provide the following basic services: safe and
healthy living place, personal assistance and care, observation and supervision,
planned activities, food service, arrangements for obtaining incidental medical and
dental care
California Clearance - ANSWER: can't have felony or misdemeanor conviction
Capacity - ANSWER: max limit # of people allowed in care of a facility
care and supervision - ANSWER: includes assisting in dressing, bathing, medicines,
transportation, storing/ distributing medicin, house rule maintenance, supervision
of schedules and activities, supervision of resident's property and food intake/diet
certicate holder - ANSWER: a person who has a current administrator's certificate
regardless if they're actually employed as an administrator in a facility or not.
DIFFERENT FROM CERTIFIED ADMINSTRATOR
certified administrator - ANSWER: administrator who has a current RCFE Certificate
and is employed in a facility as an administrator
Close Friend - ANSWER: attached to another by feeling of personal regard as
indicated by both parties involved
community care facility - ANSWER: any facility/place/building providing nonmedica
care and supervision
Conservator - ANSWER: appointed by the superior court to care for the person or
estate or person and estate of adult
COnsultant - ANSWER: person qualified to provide expert info on a subject
Control Of property - ANSWER: right to enter occupy and maintain the operation of
the facility
, Criminal Record Clearance - ANSWER: individual has BOTH California clearance and
FBI Clearance
Deficieny - ANSWER: failure to comply with department regulations
Serious Deficiencies - ANSWER: -fire clearance, #/type of residents, telephone
service, residents with prohibited health conditions, non ambulatory residents,
restraints, safety, food storage, preparation and service, medicine
storage/dispensing, hot water temperature, bathroom, storage of needles and
waste, night supervision,
Delayed Egress Device - ANSWER: egress control divide of time delay used for
alzheimer or dementia residents
Dementia - ANSWER: Loss of intellectual function (thinking, remembering, reading,
exercising judgement and making decisions) and other cognitive functions.
Dementia is not a disease itself but a group of symptoms that may accompany
certain conditions or diseases including alzheimer's disease. Symptoms may
include changes in personality, mood and or behavior. it is irreversible when
caused by disease or injury but may be reversible when caused by depression drug
alcohol or hormone imbalance
Department - ANSWER: refers to the California State Department of Social Services
Direct Care staff - ANSWER: provide direct care to residents
Director - ANSWER: refers to the Director of the State Department of Social
Services
Do Not Resuscitate DNR form - ANSWER: completed by the resident or (in some
instances) a resident's Health Care Surrogate Decision Maker and by a physician,
alert pre-hospital emergency medical services personal to the resident's wishes to
forego resuscitative measures in the event of the resident's cardiac or respiratory
arrest
Documentation - ANSWER: supportive info including but not limited to the
Licensing Report
Egress Alert Device - ANSWER: device worn by a resident that triggers alarm when
resident leaves the building
Eldery Person - ANSWER: over 60 years of age
Evaluator - ANSWER: department agent that is authorized by contract to license
community care facilities
