Chapter 1

Long-term care is offered in

• Skilled Nursing Facilities
• Adult Day Services Facilities
• Hospitals
• Ambulatory Surgical Centers

Residents in _____ are usually more independent and do not need skilled care.

• Assisted living facilities
• Acute Care facilities
• Subacute care facilities
• Hospice facilities

Which of the following types of health care is generally for people who will die in six months or less?

• Hospice Care
• Outpatient care
• Inter-generational care
• Long Term Care

_____ is a federal health insurance program for people who are 65 years of age or older or people of any age with permanent kidney failure or certain disabilities.

• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration
• Health and Human Services

Medicare will pay for

• Care that it determines to be medically necessary
• All care requested by the doctor
• All care requested by the facility
• All care requested by the recipient

The amount that Medicare and Medicaid will pay long-term care facilities for services is based on

• The resident's need upon admission and throughout their stay
• The resident's background
• The size of the facility
• The financial contributions from the resident's family

Which of the following is part of proper personal grooming by a nursing assistant?

• Keeping hair neatly tied back away from the face
• Applying perfume daily
• Bathing every three days
• Wearing polished artificial nails to work

A surveyor may cite a facility for

• Overlooking a resident’s social and emotional needs
• Providing needed counseling to a resident
• Making sure a resident has access to the religious services he prefers
• Failing to provide a resident with transportation to a shopping mall.

Which of the following is part of a person’s activities of daily living?

• Eating and drinking
• Mending torn clothing items as needed
• Removing soiled bed linens and replacing them with clean linens
• Emptying the trash

Adaptive devices are used to

• Help residents perform activities of daily living
• Help residents with handwashing
• Help residents learn to adapt to new roommates
• Help residents to use wheelchairs