Day 1
The five criteria for Older Adult Protective Services.
What are within PA Jurisdiction, Age 60+, Is incapacitated, has no reasonable caretaker, Is at imminent risk
A Power of Attorney document must be what to be valid.
What is notarized.
Trauma informed care means shifting your mindset from "What's wrong with you" to this:
What is "What's happened to you"?
The PSW needs to make an immediate report to whom if they have reasonable cause to believe that a care-dependent person or dependent person residing in a facility was a victim of abuse or neglect.
Who is law enforcement or the Office of Attorney General?
Name an instance when a reassessment should occur
What is location, health, risk, life experiences?.
The five criteria for Adult Protective Services.
What are resident of the Commonwealth, 18-59, physical or mental impairment that limits one or more major life activities, requires assistance of another person to obtain protective services, Imminent risk to person or property
There are three types of POAs in Pennsylvania. These include:
What are financial/general, mental health and health care
This type of question can confirm details or get additional information.
What is a clarifying or follow up question?
When documenting it is important to write more when:
something unusual or complex occurs, new plans or decisions are made, important or new information is revealed?
The agency shall terminate protective services when this happens.
What is the individual is no longer in need of protective services?
The failure to provide for oneself or the failure of a caretaker to provide goods or services essential to avoid a clear and serious threat to physical or mental health
What is Neglect
The Court must find a person to be incapacitated in order to appoint what?
What is a guardian?
True or False. An individual needs to be cognitively incapacitated in order to seek involuntary intervention.
What is false?
Name ways to rule out ANEA.
What are screening questions and observation of physical environment/physical appearance and interview collateral contacts?
This is needed when providing case record information to another state.
What is consent?
Administrators or employees who have reasonable cause to suspect that a recipient is a victim of abuse shall make an immediate oral report are called.
Who are mandatory reporters>
This working document is created immediately for all RONs except for those that are categorized as "no needs" and shall be promptly updated throughout the investigation.
What is the IS&A?
You do not need permission to speak with these types of collateral contacts.
Neighbors, friends, relatives, facility employees, community workers, etc...
A report is substantiated when either of these occurs by a preponderance of evidence:
What is the investigation confirms the allegation(s) of the RON or the individual is determined to need protective services or both?
Conditions that would initiate a reassessment of needs.
What is change in location, health, risk or life experiences?
The timeframe for an OAPS emergency report and APS priority report.
What is Immediately?
To ensure safety, FTF ASAP but within 24 hours.
Ask participants these follow up questions:
Timeframes for OAPS Priority, Non priority?
Timeframes for APS Non priority ?
Individuals have the right to self-determination(right to refuse participation, change their mind, choose service measures) as well as these rights:
What is: discreet notification, additional information in the report, appeal of a denial of services, confidentiality of information gathered.
Confidential records held by third parties requires the consent of whom for the agency to gain access.
What is the individual, their court-appointed guardian or by court order?
Allegations found to be true, allegations are unfounded but fits PS for other reasons, no need for PS are all types of what.
What is substantiation?
Locked & separated, sign-out procedures and access to files are all part of what.
What are maintenance of records?