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Chapter 12: Social Work in Skilled Nursing Homes (Edmund Young)

Multiple Choice

1. What term describes the view of social work practice in nursing homes?

a. Metaphoric

b. Freelance

c. Part-time

*d. Adjunctive

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: MC

2. What are the three most common rehabilitative services offered in nursing homes sanctioned by physicians?

a. Safety, protection, and suicide watch

b. Convalescence, cognitive behavioral therapy, and substance abuse recovery

*c. Physical, occupational, and speech therapies

d. Speech therapy, mindfulness, and convalescence

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: MC

3. Who completes the initial history and physical assessment with clients in nursing homes?

a. Social worker

*b. Physician

c. Chaplain

d. Clinical nurse

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: MC

4. What are two categories of psychotherapeutic services provided to clients in nursing homes?

*a. Individual and group

b. Community and group

c. Family and group

d. Individual and family

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: MC

5. What type of service is offered to clients in nursing homes that respond to their urgent daily needs?

a. Activities of daily living

*b. Instrumental activities of daily living

c. Daily tasks care

d. Daily living response care

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Introduction History

Question Type: MC

6. What is a micro-level task that a social worker can execute in a nursing home?

*a. Conduct psychosocial evaluations

b. Lead support groups

c. Collaborate with multidisciplinary team

d. Perform initial history and physical exam

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Micro Level Practice

Question Type: MC

7. How many days must a patient remain in a nursing facility before a psychosocial assessment is conducted?

a. 2

b. 14

c. 10

*d. 3

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Micro Level Practice

Question Type: MC

8. What practical information do social workers learn as a result of conducting psychosocial evaluations?

a. The outcomes of a client situation

*b. How a client functions in various domains

c. What the client wants to work on

d. Demographic data

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Assessment

Question Type: MC

9. What are interventions that have been tested by research?

*a. Evidence-based practices

b. Outcome data

c. Tested approaches

d. Evidence-informed approaches

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Interventions

Question Type: MC

True/False

1. The NASW Code of Ethics offers guidelines for professional conduct, especially in ensuring safety for clients, the general public, and the social work profession.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension

Answer Location: Legal and Ethical Concerns

Question Type: TF

2. At the mezzo level, social workers can provide training to a clinical team.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension

Answer Location: Mezzo level practice

Question Type: TF

3. Social workers in nursing homes must understand the difference between a licensed and unlicensed residential care facility in order to provide a proper referral after placement.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Mezzo level practice

Question Type: TF

4. The 1987 Nursing Home Reform Law requires each nursing home to care for its residents in a manner that promotes and enhances the quality of life for each resident.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Macro level practice

Question Type: TF

5. One right of the Resident’s Bill of Rights is the right to complain.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Macro Level Practice

Question Type: TF

6. The most important considerations for social workers in a nursing home setting is proficiency with geriatric practice knowledge and skills.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: TF

7. Clients in nursing homes who are younger than 65 years require recuperative help and nursing care.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Introduction

Question Type: TF

8. In nursing home care, assessments are completed to determine the biological, psychological, and social aspects of the client just as in any other setting.

a. True

*b. False

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Micro level practice

Question Type: TF

9. Social workers should be mindful of all federally protected categories when working in nursing home care in order to be culturally competent.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Diversity considerations

Question Type: TF

10. Federally protected categories of individuals include physical disability, mental disability, and sexual orientation.

*a. True

b. False

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Diversity Considerations

Question Type: TF

Short Answer

Type: S

1. What is transference?

*a. Transference is a phenomenon whereby individuals unconsciously transfer or project feelings and attitudes from a person or situation in their past onto a person or situation in the present.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Transference and Countertransference Issues

Question Type: SA

Type: S

2. What is countertransference?

*a. Countertransference is the converse of transference. The practitioner is undergoing a parallel process of unconscious reenactment and/or projection of thoughts, feelings, and or attitudes from prior experiences onto the client.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Transference and Countertransference Issues

Question Type: SA

Type: S

3. What did the Nursing Home Reform Law require nursing homes to do for clients?

*a. The Nursing Home Reform Law required each nursing home to care for its residents in a manner that promotes and enhances the quality of life of each resident, ensuring dignity, choice, and self-determination.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Macro level practice

Question Type: SA

Essay

Type: E

1. Identify at least four services performed at the micro level by social workers in nursing homes and why these services are important.

*a. Some services social workers in nursing homes can perform include: 1) coordinating external appointments for clients, 2) providing consultation, 3) facilitating family meetings, and 4) providing supportive counseling. These four services are essential to a client and their care because they need someone who practices ethically and effectively to help them navigate the systems in which they now must interact. Having someone work with their family to facilitate meetings and to provide information is one needed task. Clients also benefit from the provision of supportive counseling on an as-needed basis.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Micro Level Practice

Question Type: ESS

Type: E

2. Identify at least four services social workers can perform at the mezzo level to clients in nursing homes.

*a. Some of the services social workers can perform at the mezzo level to clients in nursing homes may include 1) providing trainings to the clinical team, 2) keeping team members abreast of differing social service programs and resources, 3) facilitating various groups, and 4) helping others understand the differences between licensed and unlicensed residential care facilities.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Mezzo Level Practice

Question Type: ESS