Legal
Responsibilities that include practicing within the guidelines of laws, policies, and regulations that are established for each type of employment.
What is Scope of Practice?
Defines whether an action is perceived as good or bad, proper or improper.
What is morality?
Definition: keeping medical information secret or private
What is confidentiality?
Agreement to surgical or medical treatment with knowledge of the facts and risks involved
What is informed consent?
A patient asks you to speak with the neighbor who brought her in to have your procedure. They are unrelated. Can you update this person after surgery?
What is yes? The patient has given verbal consent.
What is liable?
Principles and values that determine appropriate behavior.
What are ethics?
Can a patient's information be released to family if the patient is incapacitated?
What is yes?
Legal documents that allow patients to express their wishes about their healthcare
What are advanced directives?
A friend who works in the same hospital and on the same unit as you knows that one of your patients today is someone from your school. She asks how they're doing. You reply.....
What is sharing information with someone who is not directly involved in the patient's care is considered a HIPAA violation?
Failure to execute the care that a reasonable person in your position would exercise
What is negligent?
When a patient makes decisions for themself, without the influence of or input from others.
What is autonomy?
Can a healthcare professional share information with another healthcare professional if it pertains to the patient's care?
What is yes?
A set of guarantees for ALL individuals receiving medical care.
What is a Patient Bill of Rights?
Who is the patient?
Failure for a professional to foresee consequences that a professional with proper training should foresee.
What is malpractice?
The ability to take on another person’s perspective.
What is empathy?
Does HIPAA allow a patient's spouse full access to the patient's medical records because they are married?
What is no?
The meaning of the initials DNR
What is Do Not Resuscitate?
A 29-year-old patient is brought into the ER unresponsive after a motor vehicle accident. She is in critical condition and needs an emergency laparotomy to remove her badly damaged spleen. There is no family present. Can you take her to the OR without consent?
What is yes? This is a matter of life or death and the patient is unable to consent.
$100 per violation up to $25,000 per year and/or criminal penalties up to $250,000 and 10 years in prison
What are the legal implications of a HIPAA violation?
Serve to offer assistance in addressing ethical issues that arise in patient care and facilitate sound decision making that respects participants' values, concerns, and interests
What are Ethics Committees?
the letters HIPAA stand for...
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountabilty Act?
A person that a patient designates to make medical decisions.
Power of Attorney
A five-year-old patient wakes up in the recovery room and tells you his broken arm (which was originally reported as a fall) is the result of his stepfather getting angry and hurting him. He begs you not to tell because he doesn't want to upset his mom and make his stepdad hit him again. Do you let someone know?
What is yes? As a healthcare worker you are a mandatory reporter.