Patient rights
The acronym for HIPPA stands for?
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
This type of document dictates what medical care you want (or do not want) if you are too ill to make decisions.
What is a living will?
What does HIPPA stand for?
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
The practice of using a patient's preferred name, making eye contact, and introducing yourself, often part of the "C-I-CARE" model.
What is Introduction?
This type of information is protected by HIPAA.
What is Protected Health Information (PHI)?
This person is appointed to make medical decisions for you when you are no longer able to.
Who is a Health Care Agent (or Proxy/Durable Power of Attorney)?
What year was HIPAA signed into law?
What is 1996?
A communication tool used to confirm the patient or family understands the information provided by the care team.
What is Teach-back?
Do patients have the right to refuse treatment?
Yes
True or False: You must have an attorney to make an advanced directive legal
What is false?
This is the primary federal agency responsible for enforcing HIPAA rules.
What is the Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
These are "care partners" rather than visitors, who should be included in the planning and delivery of care.
Who are Family/Significant Others?
Can a patient refuse to have a procedure done?
Yes
This is the minimum number of witnesses generally required to sign an advanced directive.
What is two?
Who are the two main types of entities that must comply with HIPAA?
What is covered entities?
The intentional practice of understanding and sharing the feelings of the patient to improve satisfaction.
What is empathy?
What does PHI stand for?
Protected health information
An advanced directive can be changed or canceled at any time, a process known as this, as long as you are competent.
What is revoked?
What is a good practice to keep your laptop/computer secure?
Locking the screen when leaving it unattended.
The number of times per hour staff should check on a patient to reduce call light usage and improve safety.
What is hourly rounding?