List three factors that contribute to complications after discharge that can easily be addressed.

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: Delay when primary care physician receives the discharge summary; b. Pending tests and laboratory results; c. Lack of follow-up care; d. Failure to reconcile medications

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Besides keeping the relationship focused on finding solutions for stated problems, the practitioner also has the responsibility for a. finding all of the solutions for the client

b. monitoring the emotional side of the relationship. c. maintaining a physical attraction to the client. d. the well-being of the client's spouse.

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What are indirect communications?

a. Messages that are dictated by a third party to the client, therefore not being directly communicated to the social worker b. Communications that do not actually exist c. Messages received by email or fax d. Constantly occurring messages about the topic, the speaker, tone of voice, and the listener, and requests, sent through body language, and other nonexplicit methods

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Discuss the benefit of music to individuals who have cognitive limitations.

What will be an ideal response?

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The difficulty in creating universal access to healthcare services in the United States stems from a conflict of political, economic, and social values. Briefly describe some of the ways these areas of conflict have influenced and continue to influence the direction of healthcare reform.

a. Answer: a. Political – Ideological differences of the Democrats (healthcare is a right) and Republicans (healthcare is a commodity); Reaganomics, and the more recent divisive, noncollaborative actions of the Republican and Democratic parties. b. Economic – Special-interest groups made up of physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and innumerable other “special-interest groups” lobby the federal government to protect their piece of the profit-generating potential of the healthcare industry; escalating cost of healthcare. c. Fear of Bolshevism and Communism, concern for the right of individual choice.

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