Pretest on Interdisciplinary Team Concepts

Before proceeding, please complete the following true/false and multiple-choice questions. This pretest is for your self-awareness of team issues and to introduce you to team issues.

  1. An interdisciplinary team approach to health care is viewed as unimportant by the changing health care industry.

  2. An interdisciplinary team differs from other groups or teams in that members represent different disciplines, are interdependent, and one care plan is developed for the client or patient by the entire team.

  3. Health care professionals on a newly developed health care team have clear understandings about each other’s roles.

  4. The patient and family members are not a necessary part of the interdisciplinary health care team.

  5. An interdisciplinary team develops in phases over time.

  6. In order to fulfill leadership functions on an interdisciplinary team, a member must have a formal designation of authority.

  7. It is always most appropriate for a physician to perform the major leadership functions on an interdisciplinary health care team.

  8. Within a team of health care professionals, members from different disciplines speak different "languages."

  9. Which one or more of the following techniques can help overcome communication barriers within a health care team:

a. confrontation

b. insight into another culture’s belief system

c. trust development among different disciplines

d. the ability to explain one’s beliefs about a care plan

  1. As team members have more experience working together, members can anticipate an increase in conflict between or among team members.

  2. No approach to managing conflict works in the face of strong emotions.

  3. A patient who believes in folk medicine needs to be educated about why it won't work.

  4. Health care professionals need to be knowledgeable about the cultural issues within his/her client population.

  5. In an interdisciplinary team, treatment goals are determined by:

a. the physician

b. full-time members only

c. patient and family only

d. the entire team

  1. The efficiency of a health care interdisciplinary team is determined by:

a. time involved in patient care

b. cost of care and productive meetings

c. team goals met and the time and cost of patient care

  1. BBA 97 Modified the managed care program by:

a. Phasing out Medicare

b. Cutting the salaries of health care providers

c. Creating Medicare + choice program

  1. Team care is not an efficient way to provide health services in a Medicare managed care setting. (True / False)

  2. Using a continuum of care by providing alternate care settings does not reduce costs of care, and therefore is not supported by managed health care programs. (True / False)

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