101PD

Administrator Examination · 12 hours

California Care Facility Administrator Exam Prep — California Exam Prep, 12 hours

California Care Facility Administrator Exam Prep covers facility-specific open-book exam navigation, current acceptable resources, timing, and original practice questions. Delivery, credential, and regulatory-credit eligibility are stated on the course page.

Professional training or exam-preparation material. No CE/MCLE/CPE credit hours are issued.

Course at a glance

Level
Beginner
Estimated time
12 hours
Prerequisite
No prior 101PD course is required. Check any separate exam, employer, or role eligibility before relying on this training.

Skills you will practice

  • Explain and apply §1.0 The exam and the program.
  • Explain and apply §1.1 License fundamentals.
  • Explain and apply §1.2 The credential spine (recite cold).
  • Explain and apply §1.3 Enforcement pipeline.
  • Explain and apply §1.4 Two-track reporting (the table to memorize).

Learning objectives

  • Explain and apply §1.0 The exam and the program.
  • Explain and apply §1.1 License fundamentals.
  • Explain and apply §1.2 The credential spine (recite cold).
  • Explain and apply §1.3 Enforcement pipeline.
  • Explain and apply §1.4 Two-track reporting (the table to memorize).

Assessment and timing

Knowledge check plus 2 final exam versions.

Passing score: 70%.

Final timing: 1 minute per question.

Hands-on practice

Applied course exercises

Use the course rules in practical scenarios and exercises drawn from the published syllabus.

  • §1.9 Answer-elimination clinic — architecture stems
  • §1.11 Case File — The Anonymous Complaint, Worked End to End
  • §1.13 The Notice Arithmetic Workbook — Dates You Must Compute Cold
  • §2.10 Answer-elimination clinic — operations stems
  • §2.13 Case File — The Budget That Ate the Night Shift
  • §2.19 The Money Workbook — Five Problems in Lawful Facility Finance

Full syllabus

Chapter 1 — Legal Architecture: License, Credential, Enforcement, Rights (15 of 100 Q)

  • §1.0 The exam and the program
  • §1.1 License fundamentals
  • §1.2 The credential spine (recite cold)
  • §1.3 Enforcement pipeline
  • §1.4 Two-track reporting (the table to memorize)
  • §1.5 Rights catalog (87468 + HSC 1569.269 overlay)
  • §1.6 Money, rates, evictions
  • §1.7 Drill bank — 20 rapid checks
  • §1.8 Worked items
  • §1.9 Answer-elimination clinic — architecture stems
  • §1.10 Final mixed set — ten one-liners
  • §1.11 Cross-chapter integration drill
  • §1.12 Mini-glossary (chapter terms)

Chapter 1 — The Legal Architecture: Licensing Law, Title 22, and Residents' Rights

  • §1.1 Why This Chapter Comes First — The Administrator as the License's Mind
  • §1.2 The RCFE Defined — What the License Covers and What It Does Not
  • §1.3 The Licensing Lifecycle — Application to Renewal-Free Permanence
  • §1.4 The Administrator in Law — Certification, Presence, and Succession
  • §1.5 Enforcement — Inspections, Deficiencies, Penalties, and the Appeal Ladder
  • §1.6 Mandated Reporting — Elder Abuse and Unusual Incidents on the Clock
  • §1.7 Residents' Rights I — The Personal Rights Catalog
  • §1.8 Residents' Rights II — Admission Agreements, Rates, Evictions, and Refunds
  • §1.9 Money in Trust — Safeguarding Resident Cash and Valuables
  • §1.10 The Chapter's Working Synthesis — A Compliance Spine for the Exam
  • §1.11 Case File — The Anonymous Complaint, Worked End to End
  • §1.12 Statute Reading Room — HSC 1569.616 and the Bill of Rights, Closely Read
  • §1.13 The Notice Arithmetic Workbook — Dates You Must Compute Cold
  • §1.14 Chapter One Study Aids — Self-Test and Learner FAQ
  • §1.15 Integration Drill — Rights Meeting Operations in Five Scenes
  • §1.16 Abuse Recognized in Detail — The Typology Behind the Report
  • §1.17 Chapter One Closing Drill — Ten Verdicts at Speed

Chapter 2 — Operations: Money, Staff, Building (20 of 100 Q)

  • §2.0 The operator's frame
  • §2.1 Money rules
  • §2.2 The clearance machine
  • §2.3 Training architecture
  • §2.4 Staffing floors
  • §2.5 Fire and life safety
  • §2.6 Habitability numbers
  • §2.7 Emergencies in order
  • §2.8 Drill bank — 20 rapid checks
  • §2.9 Worked items
  • §2.10 Answer-elimination clinic — operations stems
  • §2.11 Final mixed set — ten one-liners
  • §2.12 Cross-chapter integration drill
  • §2.13 Mini-glossary (chapter terms)

Chapter 2 — Running the House: Business Operations, Staffing, and the Physical Plant

  • §2.1 The Administrator as Operator — Three Ledgers at Once
  • §2.2 The Financial Architecture — Rates, Fiscal Records, and Solvency
  • §2.3 Marketing Without Misrepresentation
  • §2.4 Hiring — Clearances Before Contact
  • §2.5 Personnel Records and the Employment File
  • §2.6 Staff Training — The Mandated Hours and Subjects
  • §2.7 Staffing the Building — Sufficiency, Night Coverage, and the Awake Question
  • §2.8 Supervision Craft — Turnover, Delegation, and the One-Team House
  • §2.9 The Physical Plant I — Fire Clearance and Life Safety
  • §2.10 The Physical Plant II — Habitability, Safety, and the Regulated House
  • §2.11 Emergencies in Operation — Drills, Kits, and the First Bad Hour
  • §2.12 Chapter Synthesis — The Operator's Checklist
  • §2.13 Case File — The Budget That Ate the Night Shift
  • §2.14 The Clearance Machine, Closely Examined
  • §2.15 Wage-and-Hour in the Care Home — The Labor Floor Beneath the Schedule
  • §2.16 The Physical Plant Walkthrough — An Inspection-Day Checklist in Prose
  • §2.17 Chapter Two Study Aids — Self-Test and Learner FAQ
  • §2.18 Regulation Reading Room — The Staffing and Training Sections, Closely Read
  • §2.19 The Money Workbook — Five Problems in Lawful Facility Finance
  • §2.20 Emergency Scenario Drill — Three First Bad Hours
  • §2.21 The Administrator's Week — Compliance as Calendar
  • §2.22 Learner FAQ II — The Hard Operations Calls

Chapter 3 — The Resident Journey: Gate, Plan, Change, Departure (15 of 100 Q)

  • §3.0 The gate question
  • §3.1 Pre-admission appraisal (LIC 603)
  • §3.2 Physician's report (LIC 602A)
  • §3.3 Needs-and-services plan (LIC 625)
  • §3.4 Reappraisal triggers (significant change)
  • §3.5 Departures table
  • §3.6 Community net map
  • §3.7 Forms map + record standards
  • §3.8 Drill bank — 20 rapid checks
  • §3.9 Worked items
  • §3.10 Answer-elimination clinic — journey stems
  • §3.11 Final mixed set — ten one-liners
  • §3.12 Cross-chapter integration drill
  • §3.13 Mini-glossary (chapter terms)

Chapter 3 — The Resident Journey: Admission, Appraisal, Retention, and the Community Net

  • §3.1 The Gate and the Promise — Why Admission Doctrine Is the Heart of the Field
  • §3.2 Before the Door — The Pre-Admission Appraisal
  • §3.3 The Physician's Report and the Medical Gate
  • §3.4 The Needs-and-Services Plan — The Resident's Operating Document
  • §3.5 Reappraisal and the Changing Resident
  • §3.6 Leaving Well — Transfers, Discharges, and the Relocation Safety Net
  • §3.7 The Community Net — Ombudsman, APS, and the Services Around the House
  • §3.8 Chapter Synthesis — The Resident Journey as a Compliance Timeline
  • §3.9 Case File — The Daughter Who Shopped Three Facilities
  • §3.10 Forms as Doctrine — LIC 602A, LIC 603, LIC 625, and the Record They Build
  • §3.11 The Waiver Landscape — Under-60 Admissions and Program Flexibility
  • §3.12 Chapter Three Study Aids — Self-Test and Learner FAQ
  • §3.13 Regulation Reading Room — The Admission Article, Closely Read
  • §3.14 The Placement Ecosystem — Where Residents Come From and Go
  • §3.15 Documentation Standards for the Resident Record — Writing That Survives Review
  • §3.16 Learner FAQ II — The Hard Admission-and-Retention Calls

Chapter 4 — Body and Medicine: Care, Food, Observation, Medications (20 of 100 Q)

  • §4.0 The aging body's rules
  • §4.1 ADL craft
  • §4.2 Food standards
  • §4.3 Observation, falls, infection
  • §4.4 The medication line
  • §4.5 Custody, PRN, destruction
  • §4.6 Drill bank — 20 rapid checks
  • §4.7 Worked items
  • §4.8 Answer-elimination clinic — body-and-medicine stems
  • §4.9 Final mixed set — ten one-liners
  • §4.10 Cross-chapter integration drill
  • §4.11 Mini-glossary (chapter terms)

Chapter 4 — Body and Medicine: Physical Needs, Food, Health Observation, and the Medication System

  • §4.1 The Aging Body as the Facility's Client
  • §4.2 Activities of Daily Living — Assistance With Dignity
  • §4.3 Food Service — Nutrition as a Licensing Obligation
  • §4.4 Health Observation, Illness, and the Facility's Medical Boundary
  • §4.5 The Medication System I — The Self-Administration Line
  • §4.6 The Medication System II — Storage, Records, PRNs, and Destruction
  • §4.7 Chapter Synthesis — The Body-and-Medicine Spine
  • §4.8 Case File — Seventy-Two Hours of Mrs. K
  • §4.9 The Medication Room Walkthrough — Custody in Physical Detail
  • §4.10 Nutrition Risk Workbook — Five Problems in Food-as-Care
  • §4.11 Chapter Four Study Aids — Self-Test and Learner FAQ
  • §4.12 Falls — The Signature Risk, Engineered Against
  • §4.13 Infection Control — The House Epidemiology
  • §4.14 Regulation Reading Room — The Medication Section, Closely Read
  • §4.15 Oral Health, Sensory Care, and the Small Systems That Prevent Big Events
  • §4.16 Learner FAQ II — The Hard Body-and-Medicine Calls

Chapter 5 — Mind and Belonging: Psychosocial, Dementia, Cultural Law (20 of 100 Q)

  • §5.0 The psychosocial program
  • §5.1 Depression and suicide risk
  • §5.2 The three D's
  • §5.3 The care craft
  • §5.4 Doors: the lawful hierarchy
  • §5.5 The psychotropic rule
  • §5.6 Cultural competency + the LGBT mandate
  • §5.7 Drill bank — 20 rapid checks
  • §5.8 Worked items
  • §5.9 Answer-elimination clinic — mind stems
  • §5.10 Final mixed set — ten one-liners
  • §5.11 Cross-chapter integration drill
  • §5.12 Mini-glossary (chapter terms)

Chapter 5 — Mind and Belonging: Psychosocial Needs, Dementia Care, and Cultural Competency

  • §5.1 The Psychosocial Premise — A Home, Not a Ward
  • §5.2 Mental Health in the House — Depression, Anxiety, and the Duty to Notice
  • §5.3 Dementia I — The Disease Doctrine
  • §5.4 Dementia II — The Care Craft
  • §5.5 Dementia III — The Regulatory Overlay: Advertising, Delayed Egress, and Secured Perimeters
  • §5.6 Chemical Restraint and the Psychotropic Rules
  • §5.7 Cultural Competency and the LGBT Seniors Mandate
  • §5.8 Chapter Synthesis — The Mind-and-Belonging Spine
  • §5.9 Case File — Mr. D at the Door
  • §5.10 The Activity Program, Professionally Built
  • §5.11 Grief, Loss, and the House After a Death
  • §5.12 Chapter Five Study Aids — Self-Test and Learner FAQ
  • §5.13 Dementia Stages in Operational Detail — Planning by Trajectory
  • §5.14 Behavior Documentation — The ABC Record and the Program It Feeds
  • §5.15 Family Systems — Partnership, Conflict, and the Lawful Middle
  • §5.16 Learner FAQ II — The Hard Psychosocial Calls

Chapter 6 — The Boundary and the Credential: Restricted Conditions, Hospice, Supports (10 of 100 Q)

  • §6.0 The boundary taxonomy
  • §6.1 The restricted list (working table)
  • §6.2 Licensed hands + hospice
  • §6.3 Postural supports vs restraints
  • §6.4 Directives + POLST
  • §6.5 The credential number spine (free points — recite twice, fast)
  • §6.6 Drill bank — 20 rapid checks
  • §6.7 Final verdicts — the course in ten lines
  • §6.8 Answer-elimination clinic — boundary stems
  • §6.9 Final mixed set — ten one-liners
  • §6.10 Cross-chapter integration drill
  • §6.11 Mini-glossary (chapter terms)

Chapter 6 — The Medical Boundary and the Credential: Restricted Conditions, Hospice, Postural Supports, and Your Certification

  • §6.1 The Boundary Doctrine — Three Categories of Medical Need
  • §6.2 The Restricted List — Conditions and Their Safeguards
  • §6.3 Licensed Hands in the House — Home Health and Professional Services
  • §6.4 Hospice — Dying at Home, Lawfully
  • §6.5 Postural Supports — The Narrow Lawful Device
  • §6.6 Your Credential — The Certification Program as Exam Content
  • §6.7 Chapter and Course Synthesis — The Administrator's Creed
  • §6.8 Case File — Mrs. R's Last Year, Lawfully
  • §6.9 The Boundary Sorting Drill — Twenty Quick Verdicts
  • §6.10 Chapter Six Study Aids — Self-Test, FAQ, and the Number Spine Rehearsed
  • §6.11 Advance Directives and POLST — The Paper That Speaks for the Resident
  • §6.12 Master Glossary — The Course Vocabulary in One Place
  • §6.13 The Final Integration Case — One Facility, One Month, Every Chapter
  • §6.14 Exam-Day Protocol — Running the Two Hours Well

Sample from Part I

Chapter 1 — Legal Architecture: License, Credential, Enforcement, Rights (15 of 100 Q) High-yield review. Full doctrine: Treatise Ch. 1. Supplements — never replaces — an ACB-approved ICTP. Not affiliated with CDSS. Open-book exam: printed HSC + Title 22 only. §1.0 The exam and the program - 100 Q / 120 min / 70% (70 correct) / 3 attempts within 60 days of ICTP / $100 fee (covers all 3) / ACB web-conference (Blackboard) delivery. - Open-book: PRINTED HSC + Title 22 only — no electronics, no notes. Tab your codes. - Fail all attempts or blow the 60-day window → new ICTP + new fee. - Pass → apply within 30 days (LIC 9214, $140, clearance). - Authority: HSC 1569.616; 22 CCR 87405-87407 (certification), Art. 15 (vendors). §1.1 License fundamentals - RCFE = non-medical, social-model housing + care/supervision for persons 60+. - Care and supervision triggers licensure (meds oversight, ADLs, health observation, arranging care). Unlicensed operation = crime + civil penalties. - License: specific premises + capacity · never transferable · permanent until surrendered/revoked · annual fees · plan of operation = the filed constitution. - Licensee holds ultimate legal responsibility; the certified administrator runs it. - Postings: license, ombudsman poster, personal rights, required reports. §1.2 The credential spine (recite cold) 80-hr ICTP (NHA: 12) → exam 100/120/70%/3/60 days/$100 → LIC 9214 ≤30 days ($140) → cert valid 2 years, personal + statewide → renew on 40 CE (≥20 live, ≤20 self-paced, ≥8 dementia, ≥4 laws/regs, ≤10/day; NHA dual: 20) filed ≤90 days early → lapse: $300 delinquent · 2-4 yrs = double CE · 4 yrs = start over. Facility side: administrator present sufficient hours; designated substitute whenever absent; one facility type per certification held. §1.3 Enforcement pipeline Unannounced inspections + complaint visits (entry immediate; interviews PRIVATE) → deficiencies + plan of correction → civil penalties (immediate for gravest; daily until corrected) → noncompliance conference → temporary suspension order (immediate risk; relocation protections) → revocation via accusation → ALJ (APA) → decision → appeal. Companions: ombudsman (posted, free access, confidential complaints) · APS · law enforcement. Obstructing entry or interviews = its own violation. §1.4 Two-track reporting (the table to memorize) Track What To whom Clock ------------ Elder abuse (physical, sexual, financial, neglect, isolation, abandonment, abduction, self-neglect) Known/suspected — reasonable suspicion suffices Ombudsman OR law enforcement (in-facility abuse) Phone immediately/ASAP + written 2 working days; serious bodily injury = accelerated law-enforcement clocks Unusual incident (death ANY cause, injury needing treatment, epidemic, fire, missing resident, rights violation, utility loss) Licensing event CCLD + family/responsible person Next working day phone/online + written (LIC 624) 7 days Duty is PERSONAL — never delegable, never waivable by family or employer. When both tracks fit: both report. §1.5 Rights catalog (87468 + HSC 1569.269 overlay) Dignity · no corporal punishment/humiliation · rights explained + acknowledged at admission · worship OR not (never compelled) · leave at any time (locks = Ch. 5's narrow statutes only) · visitors of choice at reasonable hours +

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