Reason for the evaluations in long term care homes. Ensure that clients adhere to the highest technical standards appropriate to the methods they use. Explore with clients the shortcomings and strengths of evaluation questions and approaches. Communicate the approaches, methods, and limitations of the evaluation accurately and in sufficient detail to allow others to understand, interpret, and critique their work. Ensure that the evaluation team collectively possesses the education, abilities, skills, and experience appropriate to the evaluation. Ensure that the evaluation team collectively demonstrates cultural competence and uses appropriate evaluation strategies and skills to work with culturally different groups. Practice within the limits of their competence, decline to conduct evaluations that fall substantially outside those limits, and make clear any limitations on the evaluation that might result if declining is not feasible. Seek to maintain and improve their competencies in order to provide the highest level of performance in their evaluations. Negotiate honestly with clients and relevant stakeholders concerning the costs, tasks, limitations of methodology, scope of results, and uses of data. Disclose any roles or relationships that might pose a real or apparent conflict of interest prior to accepting an assignment. Record and report all changes to the original