August 2011 CE Pre-Test

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• Taking the Pre-Test below is strongly encouraged

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PRE-TEST

1. In their discussion (“It's Time for a Look-Back Period”) Kennedy, Maher and Diyer all took issue with this particular aspect of MDS 3.0 for being too burdensome:

   1. care area assessments

   2. discharge assessments

   3. pain assessments

   4. resident interviews

2. Kennedy writes that questions and answers from SNF Open Door Forum Calls should be:

   1. incorporated into the RAI User's Manual

   2. ignored by a majority of providers

   3. revisited at a later time

   4. none of the above

3. In “Taking Control of Incontinence,” Klusch describes the negative implications of incontinence as:

   1. clinical and psychosocial

   2. financial and clinical

   3. clinical and psychiatric

   4. clinical and societal

4. Klusch recommends that the MDS Coordinator discuss physician attitudes and topic knowledge with:

   1. staff

   2. administrator

   3. medical director

   4. resident

5. According to Buettner and Legg (“Recreation Therapy and MDS 3.0”), the physician's order for recreation therapy must include a statement of:

   1. frequency, scope of treatment, diagnosis

   2. frequency, scope of treatment, duration

   3. diagnosis, frequency, duration

   4. diagnosis, scope of treatment, duration

6. Although the professions are different (Buettner and Legg), there is some overlap between:

   1. recreational therapy and activities

   2. recreational therapy and physical therapy

   3. recreational therapy and occupational therapy

   4. recreational therapy and restorative nursing

7. For pressure ulcers to be clinically recognized from the time of the caused event (Spahn: “New Approaches to Wound Care”), there is a:

   1. 7- to 14-day delay

   2. 5- to 7-day delay

   3. 2- to 7-day delay

   4. 2- to 5-day delay

8. According to Dornberger (Clinically Speaking), skilled nursing facilities have transitioned from the ′70s model of staff working independently of one another to what form of care:

   1. silos of care

   2. a team approach

   3. multidisciplinary performance

   4. specialty care

9. Which of the following are the only senses that connect directly with the hippocampus, the center of memory consolidation in our brains? (Field Studies)

   1. sight and smell

   2. taste and smell

   3. touch and taste

   4. sight and hearing

10. Oatway (FocusOn) writes that cloud computing is susceptible to increased risks of:

    1. failure

    2. abandonment

    3. unauthorized access

    4. unavailability

PRE-TEST ANSWERS:

1. b-discharge assessments

2. a-incorporated into the RAI User's Manual

3. a-clinical and psychosocial

4. c-medical director

5. b-frequency, scope of treatment, duration

6. c-recreational therapy and occupational therapy

7. c-2- to 7-day delay

8. b-a team approach

9. b-taste and smell

10. c-unauthorized access

To comment on this self-study, please e-mail cecomments@nabeweb.org.

Long-Term Living 2011 August;60(8):53