Deck 13: People Living With Disability: Navigating Support and Health Systems

Question 1

The National Disability Insurance Scheme aims to improve the lives of people living with disability because it:

A)reduces access to mainstream health and human services for people living with disability and promotes private services
B)discourages people living with disability from being service recipients.
C)supports mainstream health and human services to be accessible to a diverse range of people
D)gives as much control as possible over services to health and human services so that they can meet standards and manage health budgets as a priority

Answer 1

supports mainstream health and human services to be accessible to a diverse range of people

Question 2

Disability only causes issues affecting the daily living,work and community engagement of people living with disability when those impairments are constant and clearly visible to others.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Health and human service professionals need to work collaboratively and in conjunction with disability services and developmental educators to ensure that people living with disability can make informed decisions about their well-being.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Disability professionals make a contribution to health services by:

A)being prepared to listen and act on the instruction of the relevant services under the guidance of a qualified health professional
B)understanding that budget constraints can make access a challenge and if necessary advocate that people with a disability accept less than what they are seeking
C)not taking a role in health-related concerns as they are better suited to community participation,recreation and daily living activities like personal care
D)being recognised as highly skilled and qualified health and human services practitioners,with a range of skills and experience directly or indirectly linked to physical and/or psychosocial well-being

Question 5

The interaction between the individual's right to freedom of choice and dignity of risk,and the disability and health professionals' duty of care is:

A)a storm in a teacup and we all make too much of it
B)biased towards duty of care - this should be the foremost priority for all professionals involved,and people living with disability need to respect this
C)irrelevant,as health care needs are more important than individual expressed goals and choices
D)an important element of interprofessional practice,sometimes requiring critical thinking and effective collaboration between all stakeholders

Question 6

The health and quality of life outcomes for people living with disability can be improved by individualising funding and giving more choice and control to the individuals than service providers.

Question 7

The roles of disability professionals and developmental educators are:

A)secondary to the expertise of other health and human service professionals -health needs must be addressed first
B)important to interprofessional practice and ensuring that people living with disability have access to services and are able to use,implement and benefit from multidisciplinary services.
C)only relevant when based within disability-specific services
D)based on a unique and specific range of skills and knowledge but do not qualify practitioners to work collaboratively with other health and human service professionals

Question 8

To achieve an individual's expressed goals and choices,all health and human services need to:

A)understand the range of health care issues that may impact on the individual and the interaction between different aspects of health and well-being
B)understand some of the specific impairments and related health care issues that impact on people living with disability,their independence and access to an ordinary life
C)have the skills to ensure effective and respectful communication between disability and health professionals and the individual and their significant others
D)all of the above

Question 9

Developmental educators are multi-disciplinary skilled professionals but are not well qualified to work in teams alongside and with a range of allied health and human services;they are best in support roles only.

Question 10

Interprofessional practice is a good idea in theory,but it is unlikely that having a range of health and human service providers collaborating rather than working within existing professional boundaries will alter outcomes for those needing services.