La-La-Law
Rules set by the government to help protect the public.
What are laws?
Failure to provide necessary care or services, resulting in physical, mental or emotional harm to a person.
What is neglect?
The inappropriate treatment or exploitation of a resident.
What is mistreatment?
The code of proper behavior and courtesy in a certain setting.
What is etiquette?
The abbreviation for the federal law that sets standards for protecting the privacy of patients' health information.
What is HIPAA?
Public law; law related to committing a crime against the community.
What is criminal law?
Physical, sexual or emotional abuse by spouses, intimate partners, or family members.
What is domestic violence?
The deliberate misplacement, exploitation, or improper use of a resident's belongings or money without the resident's consent.
What is misappropriation?
Involuntary discharge from a facility.
What is eviction?
The abbreviation for the federal law that included minimum standards for nursing assistant training and staffing requirements.
What is OBRA?
Private law; law between individuals.
What is civil law?
Actions, or the failure to act or provide proper care for a person, resulting in unintended injury.
What is negligence?
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 legal advocate for residents in long-term care facilities.
What is an ombudsman?
The abbreviation for the part of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act that sets minimum requirements for training and testing nursing assistants.
What is NATCEP?
Defamation in written form.
What is libel?
Any treatment, intentional or not, that causes harm or injury to a person's body.
What is physical abuse?
Physical, sexual or emotional harm caused by a partner or spouse.
What is intimate partner violence (IPV)?
The repeated use of legal or illegal drugs, cigarettes, or alcohol in a way that causes harm to oneself or others.
What is substance abuse?
The abbreviation for the order that tells medical professionals not to perform CPR in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest.
What is DNR?
Right identified in OBRA that relate to how residents must be treated in a long-term care facility.
What are residents' rights?
Emotional harm caused by threatening, frightening, isolating, intimidating, humiliating, or insulting a person.
What is psychological abuse?
Verbal, physical, or sexual abuse of staff by other staff members, residents, or visitors.
What is workplace violence?
A group of residents who meet regularly to discuss issues related to the long-term care facility.
What is the Resident Council?
The abbreviation for 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 EHR?