ORDENFA National Exam case studies
ORDENFA National Exam · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The ORDENFA National Exam is a professional certification assessment for candidates seeking to demonstrate competence in ORDENFA practice. It suits practitioners entering the field as well as experienced professionals who want a structured, externally recognised validation of their knowledge. The ORDENFA National Exam case studies are 5 cases and about 3,075 words.
1The Weekend Audit Gap
You are the sole ORDENFA-registered practitioner at a 12-bed residential facility. On Friday at 16:40 a colleague who is not ORDENFA-registered leaves a partially completed intake file for a new resident arriving Monday morning.
500 words, about 3 min2The Colleague Who Documents After the Fact
While covering a shift, you notice that a long-serving colleague routinely writes up their progress notes the following morning rather than at the end of the shift. The notes are accurate in substance - you have cross-checked several against your own observations - but they are timestamped as if written at the time of the interaction.
643 words, about 3 min3The Resident Who Wants to Leave
A resident at your facility, assessed as having capacity to make their own decisions, tells you at 21:30 that they intend to walk to the bus station and travel to their sister's house 40 km away. It is dark, the temperature is 2°C, and the resident is wearing indoor clothing and slippers.
663 words, about 3 min4The Threshold That Wasn't Met
You are reviewing a batch of 30 records for compliance with a standard that requires a documented review every 90 days. You find that 4 records have reviews at 95, 97, 88, and 120 days.
629 words, about 3 min5The Reference You Were Asked to Soften
A colleague you have worked with for two years is applying for a promotion to a supervisory role. They ask you to provide a reference and, in the same conversation, ask you to 'leave out the thing with the medication error last spring - it was resolved, it wasn't serious, and it would sink me.' You were the person who reported the error.
640 words, about 3 min