Shameful Behavior!
Purposeful or willful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, emotional or financial pain or injury to a person.
What is abuse?
An abbreviation for do-not-resuscitate; an order that tell medical professionals not to perform CPR in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest
What is DNR?
A federal law that sets standards for protecting the privacy of patients' health information.
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
The use of language that threatens, embarrasses or insults a person.
What is verbal abuse?
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?
Improper or illegal use of a person's money, possessions, property or other assets.
What is financial abuse?
The knowledge of right and wrong; standards of conduct.
What is ethics?
Professional misconduct that results in damage or injury to a person?
What is malpractice?
Nonconsensual sexual contact of any type.
What is sexual abuse?
The intentional touching of a person without her consent.
What is battery?
A threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that he will be harmed.
What is assault?
A document that states the medical care a person wants, or does not want, in case she becomes unable to make those decisions.
What is a living will?
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)?
Any unwelcome sexual advance or behavior that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.
What is sexual harassment?
Information that can be used to identify a person and relates to his 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)?
The violation of the right to be left alone and the right to control personal information.
What is invasion of privacy?
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 an Electronic Health Record (EHR)?
The tasks that healthcare providers are legally permitted to perform according to state or federal law.
What is scope of practice?
Defamation in oral form.
What is slander?
The separation of a person from others against the person's will.
What is involuntary seclusion?
Any untrue statement (written or oral) that injures a person's reputation and/or damages the person's ability to make a living.
What is defamation?
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 are advanced directives?
Part of OBRA that sets minimum requirements for training and testing nursing assistants.
What is the Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Program (NATCEP)?
The act of taking advantage of a person for personal gain through threats or manipulation.
What is exploitation?
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 for health care?