Question 1:

Describe the budget development process for an actual nursing facility. If you work in a nursing facility, you will need to talk with the administrator or some other individual who is responsible for the budget. If you do not work in a nursing facility, you will have to contact one to get this information. In your discussion, be sure to include at least the following:

a. The nature of the budget process (i.e., whether it is a master budget, including operating, cash, and capital budgets, or one or more of them separately).

b. When the budget development process begins and finishes each year, and who is involved in developing the budget.

c. What type of information is used in developing projections for the coming year.

Question 2:

Your nursing facility is exploring the addition of a new service line. What financial considerations should you take into account?

Question 3:

What must a nursing facility do in order to write off the account at the end of the year on the year-end cost report?

Question 4:

Discuss what you think the administrator's role should be in developing, activating, and evaluating the facility's disaster and emergency preparedness plan. Explain why that role is important.

Question 5:

Explain when it is appropriate to evacuate residents in the event of a fire and when it is not.

a. NOTE: This question has many issues that you should consider in your response. Consider the different types of facilities that are in existence today and the risks they face. 3 pages

Question 6:

Often in disaster planning, we tend to overlook multiple simultaneous system failures. For example, in the event of a hurricane, you may have an evacuation plan, but what if the roads are blocked and the facility''s van is demolished?

a. Review the following article: http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/07/alabama_tornadoes_nursing_home.html

b. Regarding La Rocca Nursing Home, what went well? What didn''t go well? Based on this experience, how would you modify your disaster preparedness policy for the future?

Question 7:

In a brief essay, apply the five management functions (planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling) to the challenge of supervising a large, diverse group of subordinates who have different interests, explaining how each of those functions might be used in meeting such a challenge.

Question 8:

The communication process is defined as having seven steps: ideation, encoding, transmission, receiving, decoding, understanding, and feedback. Give an example of communication, identifying each of these steps, and show how each step occurs in your example. 3 pages

Question 9:

Governing boards hire administrators to manage, yet board members often involve themselves in the internal management of the facility, which is damaging both to governance and to management. Using examples (other than the one in the text), discuss ways in which the board might get involved in internal management and the damage that can be done by such involvement.