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This focuses on residents’ dignity, preferences, and overall satisfaction with daily living.
What is Quality of Life?
This financial statement shows assets, liabilities, and equity.
What is a balance sheet?
These regulations ensure facilities meet federal participation requirements.
What are CMS regulations?
This leadership style focuses on inspiring and motivating employees.
What is transformational leadership?
A resident insists on refusing a prescribed medication despite education on risks; the facility must honor this while ensuring this principle is upheld.
What is resident autonomy (right to refuse treatment)?
The interdisciplinary team must determine this before allowing a resident to self-administer medications.
What is whether it is safe for the resident?
This process identifies, evaluates, and reduces potential risks to residents and staff.
What is risk management?
This survey evaluates compliance with federal and state regulations.
What is a state survey (inspection)?
This type of conflict resolution seeks a win-win outcome.
What is collaboration?
A facility identifies a trend in staff injuries and implements interventions before citations occur; this reflects this proactive operational strategy.
What is risk prevention (proactive risk management)?
This role is responsible for oversight of medical care and clinical policies in a facility.
Who is the Medical Director?
This HR function ensures employees are competent to perform their duties.
What is training and competency evaluation?
This plan outlines procedures for fires, disasters, and emergencies.
What is an emergency preparedness plan?
This process ensures the organization is moving toward long-term goals.
What is strategic planning?
During a survey, a deficiency is cited with no actual harm but potential for more than minimal harm; this scope/severity level is assigned.
What is Level D or E (no actual harm with potential for more than minimal harm)?
These services include physical, occupational, and speech therapy.
What are Ancillary Services?
This type of budget starts from zero and justifies all expenses.
What is zero-based budgeting?
This type of deficiency indicates immediate risk of serious harm or death.
What is Immediate Jeopardy?
This leadership function involves guiding and evaluating employee performance.
What is supervision?
An administrator adjusts leadership style based on staff competence and commitment levels; this reflects this leadership theory.
What is situational leadership?
This type of care plan is developed with input from multiple disciplines to meet resident needs.
What is an interdisciplinary care plan?
This law protects employees from workplace hazards and is enforced federally.
What is OSHA?
This document outlines residents’ rights in long-term care facilities.
What is the Resident Bill of Rights?
This concept refers to doing the right thing ethically and legally.
What is accountability?
A facility’s expenses exceed revenue despite high census; analysis reveals underpriced payer contracts—this financial metric is most directly impacted.
What is operating margin?