NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATOR EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
1.How is a SNF considered its own facility if attached to a hospital: must have 2
hour fire rated separation on all adjacent walls
2.What is an FSES: Fire safety evaluation system
3.How often is an FSES completed?: annually
4.Can FSES be use for ambulatory healthcare occupancies?: no
5.Which facility personnel can be helpful in a life safety survey?: Administrator,
DON, RD, housekeeping supervisor, facility engineer, charge nurses
6.What amt of money triggers the need for an interest bearing account: $50
7.How long can an uncertified CNA work: 4 months
8.How many days after assessment do you have to implement a care plan?: 7 days
9.DON can only serve as charge nurse in facilites with less than what number of
people: 60 or less
10.How many days after readmission must a new assessment take place?: 14 days
,11.How many residents in a facility will trigger the need for a full time SW: 120
12.How many days after an investigation of MANE does the NHA need to be notified:
5 days
13.Fake statements on an assessment can lead to what level of monetary
punishment?: $1000 per resident and $5000 if it causes another to
falsify
14.What are the 2 types of life safety code that are used?: existing (if construc-
tion was before 7/5/16, and new after 7/5/16
15.In ICF-IID what are the evacuation difficulty index levels and what do they mean?:
Level A= Prompt Level B=slow Level C=impractical
16.How is the evacuation difficulty index determined: look at the rating for all 7
risk factors and take the highest score
17.What are the 7 risk factors for the evacuation difficulty index?: risk of
resistance, impaired mobility, impaired consciousness, need for extra
help, response to instructions, walking response to alarm, response to
fire drills
18.What does GAAP stand for?: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
,19.Why do facilities use GAAP?: This allows the financial records to be
compared to other organizations to better understand the financial
standing
20.What are "The Books"?: a set of records that list each monetary
transaction of the facility.
21.What is the consistency concept?: requires that the accounting reports
be prepared in the same way from year to year for accurate
comparisons
22.What is the full disclosure concept?: All financial information (all money
spent, earned, invested, owed) must be shown in the financial
records.
23.What is the objective evidence concept?: every transaction requires
objective evidence such as a paper receipt or electronic equivalent
24.What are source documents?: The objective evidence of transactions such
as receipts
25.What are the 2 approaches to accounting?: Cash and accrual
26.Define Cash accounting: Cash accounting is when expenses are
recorded when the cash is dispersed, and the revenues are recorded
when the money is received.
, 27.Define accrual accounting: IN accrual accounting expenses are
documented when incurred and revenues when earned.
28.What is not included in cash accounting?: Cash accounting does not include
depreciation. It also does not recognize deferred expenses (accounts
payable, or deferred revenues (accounts receivable)
29.What are the 2 main steps of accounting?: Keeping the books and preparing
the financial statements
30.Define bookkeeping: a system of recording all revenues and expenses
and matching them to the same time period
31.What are financial statements?: reports that summarize the financial
status of an organization within a time period
32.What are the 6 main groups of the chart of accounts?: 1. assets 2. liabilities
3. Capitol 4. revenues 5. expenses 6. fund account
33.Define Assets: anything owned to which a market value can be assigned
34.Define liabilities: things owed by the facility or its obligations
35.Define capital: money invested in the facility also known as net worth
36.Define revenues: earnings from operations and other sources
WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
1.How is a SNF considered its own facility if attached to a hospital: must have 2
hour fire rated separation on all adjacent walls
2.What is an FSES: Fire safety evaluation system
3.How often is an FSES completed?: annually
4.Can FSES be use for ambulatory healthcare occupancies?: no
5.Which facility personnel can be helpful in a life safety survey?: Administrator,
DON, RD, housekeeping supervisor, facility engineer, charge nurses
6.What amt of money triggers the need for an interest bearing account: $50
7.How long can an uncertified CNA work: 4 months
8.How many days after assessment do you have to implement a care plan?: 7 days
9.DON can only serve as charge nurse in facilites with less than what number of
people: 60 or less
10.How many days after readmission must a new assessment take place?: 14 days
,11.How many residents in a facility will trigger the need for a full time SW: 120
12.How many days after an investigation of MANE does the NHA need to be notified:
5 days
13.Fake statements on an assessment can lead to what level of monetary
punishment?: $1000 per resident and $5000 if it causes another to
falsify
14.What are the 2 types of life safety code that are used?: existing (if construc-
tion was before 7/5/16, and new after 7/5/16
15.In ICF-IID what are the evacuation difficulty index levels and what do they mean?:
Level A= Prompt Level B=slow Level C=impractical
16.How is the evacuation difficulty index determined: look at the rating for all 7
risk factors and take the highest score
17.What are the 7 risk factors for the evacuation difficulty index?: risk of
resistance, impaired mobility, impaired consciousness, need for extra
help, response to instructions, walking response to alarm, response to
fire drills
18.What does GAAP stand for?: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
,19.Why do facilities use GAAP?: This allows the financial records to be
compared to other organizations to better understand the financial
standing
20.What are "The Books"?: a set of records that list each monetary
transaction of the facility.
21.What is the consistency concept?: requires that the accounting reports
be prepared in the same way from year to year for accurate
comparisons
22.What is the full disclosure concept?: All financial information (all money
spent, earned, invested, owed) must be shown in the financial
records.
23.What is the objective evidence concept?: every transaction requires
objective evidence such as a paper receipt or electronic equivalent
24.What are source documents?: The objective evidence of transactions such
as receipts
25.What are the 2 approaches to accounting?: Cash and accrual
26.Define Cash accounting: Cash accounting is when expenses are
recorded when the cash is dispersed, and the revenues are recorded
when the money is received.
, 27.Define accrual accounting: IN accrual accounting expenses are
documented when incurred and revenues when earned.
28.What is not included in cash accounting?: Cash accounting does not include
depreciation. It also does not recognize deferred expenses (accounts
payable, or deferred revenues (accounts receivable)
29.What are the 2 main steps of accounting?: Keeping the books and preparing
the financial statements
30.Define bookkeeping: a system of recording all revenues and expenses
and matching them to the same time period
31.What are financial statements?: reports that summarize the financial
status of an organization within a time period
32.What are the 6 main groups of the chart of accounts?: 1. assets 2. liabilities
3. Capitol 4. revenues 5. expenses 6. fund account
33.Define Assets: anything owned to which a market value can be assigned
34.Define liabilities: things owed by the facility or its obligations
35.Define capital: money invested in the facility also known as net worth
36.Define revenues: earnings from operations and other sources
