Changes in certified nursing facilities in recent years include which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
a. Increase in the number of subacute beds
b. Decrease in nursing facility length of stay
c. Increase in level of acuity of the residents
d. Decrease in cost of care in the nursing fa-cility
e. Decrease in the number of registered nurses employed in long-term care facili-ties
Question 2Significant factors contributing to the growth of community-based care include: (Select all that apply.)
a. a decrease in the number of available nursing home beds.
b. rapidly escalating health care costs.
c. older adults' preferences to age in place.
d. inadequate numbers of nurses with geron-tological specialty education.
e. decreasing numbers of family caregivers.
Question 3A nurse interviews for a job in a hospital that advertises that it is elderly friendly. The nurse would expect to see which of the following in place? (Select all that apply.)
a. An elder-assistance program to help pa-tients remember their appointments and navigate the hospital services.
b. A long-term care facility that is affiliated with the hospital
c. Rooms furnished with foldout beds for family members/caregivers
d. An initiative to provide gerontological education for all nurses
e. An initiative to increase the number of pa-tients referred to long-term care facilities upon discharge from the hospital
Question 4Goals of the Eldercare Workforce Alliance include which of the following? (Select all that ap-ply.)
a. Mandating a minimum of a Baccalaureate degree in nursing in order to care for older adults
b. Increasing wages of certified nursing as-sistants (CNAs) in nursing homes
c. Providing loan forgiveness for individuals who assume faculty roles
d. Developing a nursing certification specific to long-term care
e. Adopting cost-effective care coordination models for older adults across the contin-uum of care
Question 5Best practice recommendations for undergraduate nursing education in relation to gerontology include which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
a. Provision of a stand-alone course in gerontological nursing
b. Integration of gerontological content throughout the curriculum
c. Replacement of acute care pediatric clini-cal experiences with gerontological clinical experiences
d. Recruitment of nurses with Masters and Doctoral degrees and a specialty in ger-ontology to faculty roles
e. Requiring all undergraduate nursing stu-dents to obtain gerontological certification as a requirement for graduation
Question 6The major goal of the NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Health System Elders) program in-cludes which of the following?
a. Improve outcomes for hospitalized older adults
b. Increase the number of older adults cared for in hospitals
c. Increase the number of iatrogenic compli-cations that occur in hospitalized older adults
d. Decrease 30-day readmission rates for hospitalized older adults
Question 7The impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 on gerontological nursing includes which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
a. Funding to support advanced education in gerontological nursing
b. Funding to support education of faculty in gerontology
c. Funding to increase the number of direct care workers in hospitals
d. Funding to increase nurse-patient ratios in long-term care
e. Funding for advanced training of direct care workers in long-term care
Question 8Which of the following are true statements about the current health care workforce? (Select all that apply.)
a. Approximately 10 of registered nurses (RNs) are certified in gerontological nurs-ing
b. The number of geriatricians is expected to increase about 50 over the next 25 years
c. The professions of social work, physical therapy, and psychiatry are demonstrating the same trends as nursing
d. Europe and the developing countries are experiencing similar shortages in health care workers with geriatric expertise as in the United States
e. It is anticipated that there will be a need for approximately 3 million additional di-rect care and professional health care workers by the year 2030
Question 9The son of a nursing home resident asks a nurse: What is the significance of being certified in gerontology? I see that you are, but not all of the nurses are. The best response by the nurse is which of the following?
a. National certification as a gerontological nurse is a way to demonstrate special knowledge in caring for older adults
b. National certification in gerontology is required for all nurses who have worked in this setting for 2 or more years
c. National certification is only available to nurses who have a Baccalaureate degree in nursing
d. Only advanced practice nurses, like nurse practitioners, are certified in gerontology
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