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1. Pretest: Orientation Exercise

 
The purpose of the following true-false and multiple choice questions is to orient the reader to this curriculum. This preview is an exercise meant to introduce overall core team issues. In addition to this exercise, summary questions at the end of each topic are meant to help readers assess their grasp of key content for that particular topic area.
1. An interdisciplinary team approach to health care is viewed as unimportant by the changing health care industry.
2. An interdisciplinary team offers from other groups or teams in that members represent different disciplines, are interdependent, and one care plan is developed for the client or patient by the entire team.
3. Health care professionals on a newly developed health care team have clear understandings about each other’s roles.
4. The patient and family members are not a necessary part of the interdisciplinary health care team.
5. An interdisciplinary team develops in phases over time.
6. In order to fulfill leadership functions on an interdisciplinary team, a member must have a formal designation of authority.
7. It is always most appropriate for a physician to perform the major leadership functions on an interdisciplinary health care team.
8. Within a team of health care professionals, members from different disciplines speak different languages.
9. Which one or more of the following techniques can help overcome communication barriers with a health care team?
10. As team members have more experience working together, members can anticipate an increase in conflict between or among team members.
11. No approach to managing conflict works in the face of strong emotions.
12. A patient who believes in folk medicine needs to be educated about why it won’t work.
13. Health care professionals need to be knowledgeable about the cultural issues with their client populations.
14. In an interdisciplinary team, treatment goals are determined by:
15. The efficiency of a health care interdisciplinary team is determined by:
16. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 modified the Medicare managed care program by:
17. Team care is not an efficient way to provide health services in a Medicare managed care setting.
18. Using a continuum of care by providing alternate care settings does not reduce costs of care and therefore is not supported by managed health care programs.
19. How confident are you that you can complete an interview with an aged adult that will allow you to assist them with becoming more involved in making decisions about their own needs?
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20. How confident are you that you can successfully teach an in-service to your colleagues using evidence-based material?
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