Abuse
Purposeful or willful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, emotional, or financial pain or injury to a person.
What is abuse?
Rules set by the government to help protect the public.
What are laws?
The deliberate misplacement, exploitation, or improper use of a resident’s belongings or money without the resident’s consent.
What is misappropriation?
A federal law that sets standards for protecting the privacy of patients’ health information.
What is the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
An order that tells medical professionals not to perform CPR in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest.
What is a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)?
Any treatment, intentional or not, that causes harm or injury to a person’s body.
What is physical abuse?
Rights identified in the OBRA that relate to how residents must be treated while living in a long-term care facility; they provide an ethical code of conduct for healthcare workers.
What are Residents' Rights?
The act of taking advantage of a person for personal gain through threats or manipulation.
What is exploitation?
Law passed by the federal government that includes minimum standards for nursing assistant training, staffing requirements, resident assessment instructions, and information on rights for residents.
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)?
A medical order that tells medical professionals not to place a breathing tube in a person.
What is Do Not Intubate (DNI)?
Emotional harm caused by threatening, frightening, isolating, intimidating, humiliating, or insulting a person.
What is psychological abuse?
Unlawful restraint that affects a person’s freedom of movement; includes both the threat of being physically restrained and actually being physically restrained.
What is false imprisonment?
A threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that he will be harmed.
What is assault?
Part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) that sets minimum requirements for training and testing nursing assistants.
What is the Nurse Aide Training & Competency Evaluation Program (NATCEP)?
Legal documents that allow people to decide what kind of medical care they wish to have in the event they are unable to make those decisions themselves.
What is an advanced directive?
Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse by spouses, intimate partners, or family members.
What is domestic violence?
People who are required to report suspected or observed abuse or neglect due to their regular contact with vulnerable populations, such as the elderly in long-term care facilities.
What are mandated reporters?
The intentional touching of a person without her consent.
What is battery?
Information that can be used to identify a person and relates to the patient’s past, present, or future physical or mental condition, including any health care the patient has had, or payment for that health care.
What is protected health information (PHI)?
A document that states the medical care a person wants, or does not want, in case he or she becomes unable to make those decisions.
What is a living will?
Any unwelcome sexual advance or behavior that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.
What is sexual harrassment?
A legal advocate for residents in long-term care facilities.
What is an ombudsman?
Professional misconduct that results in damage or injury to a person.
What is malpractice?
The electronic form of a resident’s personal and health data that is used to manage and coordinate a resident’s health care.
What is the electronic health record (EHR)?
A legal document that appoints someone to make the medical decisions for a person in the event he becomes unable to do so.
What is a durable power of attorney?