Deck 4: Healthcare Social Work Practice Skills and Competencies

Question 1

Practicing healthcare social work at the macro level includes __________________________.

A) Individual and family counseling
B) Case management
C) Leading groups
D) Assisting in the educational preparation of social workers for health practice.

Answer 1

Assisting in the educational preparation of social workers for health practice.

Question 2

Healthcare social work practice differs from other areas of social work practice ___________________.

A) Because it is practiced in a host setting
B) Because practitioners rarely meet with clients for more than one encounter
C) Because it is more costly
D) Because its practitioners are not held accountable

Answer 2

Because it is more costly

Question 3

Over the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic shift from hospital-based care to care provided in the home or community. Which factor is responsible for this shift?

A) Evolving technologies
B) A younger population needing more services
C) HIPAA
D) Patient preference

Answer 3

Evolving technologies

Question 4

Mark works for a large hospital system. His patient has multiple physical and mental health issues. Mark is assisting with the patient's discharge planning. Mark contacts the patient's family, his primary care physician, and the local mental health center to help develop a plan to ensure the patient has follow-up care and support. Mark is practicing __________________________.

A) Transitional care planning
B) Active surveillance
C) High-risk screening
D) Personalized medicine

Question 5

Kara works for the case management department of community hospital as a transitional care manager. While Kara is employed by the hospital, she must work with other providers within her organization and providers from other organizations. This ____________________ requires that she have relationship skills, the ability to strategize, and knowledge of other community resources.

A) High-risk screening
B) Boundary spanning
C) Focus on public health
D) Intradisciplinary teamwork

Question 6

Carol meets monthly as a facilitator with the ALS support group. Her role is to combine emotional support with disease- and treatment-related information. Carol is providing _________________________.

A) Case management
B) Transitional care management
C) Psychoeducational group leadership
D) Advocate

Question 7

Working for healthcare organizations, social workers frequently serve as gatekeepers to the provider system. This means they find themselves in the difficult position of sensitively advocating for the needs of patients in the face of frequent limitations on availability of healthcare resources. The ethical challenge in this case is _________________________.

A) Advocacy vs. resource control
B) Autonomy vs. beneficence
C) Justice
D) The least restrictive principle

Question 8

By engaging in ________________________________ efforts that evaluate the effectiveness of their own practice, social workers contribute to enhanced outcomes for patients and service delivery systems.

A) Individual practice associations
B) Continuous quality improvements
C) Regulatory agencies
D) Guided care model

Question 9

There are _____________________ phases to the helping process as applied to healthcare social work practice.

A) 9
B) 6
C) 5
D) 3

Question 10

____________________________ is an example of concrete services.

A) Financial assistance
B) Cognitive behavioral therapy
C) Logo therapy
D) Crisis intervention

Question 11

Karen works in a hospital social work department. Every morning, she prints the census for the units she covers. After carefully reviewing the demographics of the patients listed, she prioritizes the patients she will attempt to meet with that day. Karen is practicing in a system with a(n) ____________________________.

A) Critical pathway
B) Open referral system
C) Closed referral system
D) Evaluation target

Question 12

Jane works in a hospital. Each morning, she checks her inbox for referrals. Once she has reviewed the reason for each referral, she starts to meet with the patients she has been requested to see. Jane is practicing in a system with a(n) ___________________________.

A) Critical pathway
B) Open referral system
C) Closed referral system
D) Evaluation target

Question 13

Medicare guidelines note that at least three general dimensions of the patient should be assessed. These include the patient's functional status, including ability for self-care and mobility, level of cognitive functioning, and __________________________________.

A) Spirituality
B) Experience of uncontrolled pain
C) Suspected/actual patient/family history of substance abuse
D) Extent of family support

Question 14

________________________________ is a safety-net program.

A) Medicare
B) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
C) Hospice/palliative care
D) Managed care

Question 15

The planning phase of the helping process is _______________________________.

A) A product
B) A process
C) Both a product and a process
D) Considered paternalistic

Question 16

Mary is a social worker on an organ transplant team. One of Mary's roles on the team is ensuring the other team members have awareness and understanding of the complicated, high-risk problems that impact their patients' care and health status. In order to garner this information, Mary will most likely be conducting __________________________________.

A) Biopsychosocial assessments
B) Problem-oriented assessments
C) Psychoeducational groups
D) Peer supervision

Question 17

Rachel is a social worker in an oncology practice. She frequently uses ________________________ as a means of aiding patients to visualize patterns of health and behavior in their family.

A) Crude death rate
B) Genograms
C) Data mining
D) Culturegrams

Question 18

Medicaid is administered at the _______________________________.

A) Local level
B) Federal and state level
C) Federal level
D) State level

Question 19

Individuals who qualify for Medicaid are allowed _____________________________.

A) To own a home
B) To seek services in any state
C) To take up to one year to complete their application
D) To keep their retirement savings

Question 20

Melvin is a social worker who has been working on a discharge plan for Mary. Mary is an 82-year-old woman who fell and broke her hip at home. The plan is for Mary to be discharged from the hospital to an extended care facility, where she will continue her recovery. In order to ensure the extended care facility has the essential information it needs to take over care of Mary, Melvin will complete a _______________________________ and send it to the extended care facility.

A) Critical pathway
B) Safety plan
C) Transfer form
D) Civil commitment

Question 21

Termination occurs when __________________________ decides to end services.

A) The social worker
B) The patient
C) Either the social worker or the patient
D) The patient's family

Question 22

Termination does not need to be addressed if the social worker is going to be having a brief and time limited encounter with a patient.

Question 23

Healthcare social workers' services are no longer offered through hospital-based departments.

Question 24

Since social worker education does not include classes in the biomedical sciences, social workers are not prepared to perform as formal leaders in organizations.

Question 25

Because Medicare is a safety-net program, it is automatically granted to an individual if they become disabled.

Question 26

There are no clear-cut guidelines about BSW and MSW task assignments.

Question 27

Ethical challenges faced by healthcare social workers include advocacy vs. resource control, autonomy vs. beneficence, and justice (or fair decision making).

Question 28

Mary is called to the emergency room to meet with a patient who does not have a ride home from the hospital. The patient was brought in by ambulance and is now not sure how he will get home. When Mary meets with him, she will most likely conduct a problem-oriented assessment.

Question 29

Joe works in a primary care clinic as a social worker. He notices that his Hispanic patients only come to the doctor when they are ill. They are not utilizing the preventative services offered by the practice. After speaking with several of his Hispanic patients, Joe realizes that the health-promotion campaign was conducted only in English. Joe develops a plan to have the health-promotion campaign translated and then distributed widely. Joe is practicing an outreach activity.

Question 30

Bathing, toileting, dressing, cleaning, and meal preparation are all examples of ______________.

Question 31

List at least 10 key elements of a patient biopsychosocial profile.

Question 32

Social workers often serve in formal and informal leadership roles within the healthcare field. List three factors that contribute to social workers being well equipped to hold these positions.