As a social worker in a health care setting, your client has to make a decision for surgery. You are concerned she does not understand the nature of the procedure nor the consequences of refusing treatment. What should you do?
What will be an ideal response?
The first step should include informing the medical professionals that the patients does not seem to understand her choices. Her decisional capacity should be evaluated and you should determine if she has family or a named substitute decision maker in case another decision maker is required.
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Ethnography is best suited to ______
A. descriptive studies of clients when you need to know things like gender, age, and income level B. evaluative studies where client outcomes are to be measured C. the study of the relationship between two or more variables because you believe that one of these variables explains the other D. the study of a culture in depth
Task such as selecting a field site; participant observation; and focus
groups would likely represent what type of research? A. qualitative B. quantitative C. deductive D. empirical
It is now technologically possible for post-menopausal women to get pregnant and bear children
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
It is NOT ethical for a sponsor to do which of the following?
A) A school district wants a study of students, but demands that a researcher reach findings showing an improvement in student scores during the past five years. B) A supervisor requires prior review of questionnaire items to make some of them "leading" to make certain that the company looks good. C) A government agency that paid for a study suppresses findings that indicate that it has not enforced a law it is supposed to and has been an overall failure. D) A political party calls people for telephone interviews on opinions, but is really identifying potential financial contributors. It hides the true sponsor of a study by using a made up the name of a research company. E) all of the above.