May I?
Must be free of force or fraud
Consent
Protects sensitive patient health information from being disclosed
HIPAA
How many safeguards are there in place that medical facilities use to keep patient information private?
3
Criminal and Civil
One aspect of morals is described as what?
"good or bad"
Most important type of consent
Informed Consent
Allows bystanders to get involved in emergency situations without fear of being sued if their actions contribute to a person's injury or death.
Good Samaritan Acts
What does HIPAA stand for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Lesser crimes punishable usually by monetary fines established, but may also include imprisonment of 1 year or less is called what?
Misdemeanor
What are the three types of ethics?
personal, common, and professional
Legal document stating what procedures patients would want and which ones they would not want
Living Will
Regulates accuracy and timeliness of testing regardless of where the test is performed.
CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act)
Medical records are considered what type of documents?
Legal
What is mandatory to be reported promptly? (Give 3)
Births, deaths, assaults or criminal acts, abuse, neglect, exploitation, certain communicable diseases
justice
Under DPOA, who can be made proxy for a patient? List at least 4
Court-appointed guardian or conservator, spouse or domestic partner, adult child, adult sibling, close friend, nearest living relative
Prohibits an employer with 15 or more employees from discriminating on the basis of race, national origin, gender, or religion.
Title VII of civil Rights Act of 1964
What ensures that confidentiality of medical records are protected and can only be shared with an approved and authorized health care provider or entity?
Release forms
Isolation from family and friends, controlling actions and decisions, stalking, and invading privacy or space is what type of abuse?
psychological
"Do No Harm" falls under what principle?
Nonmaleficence
Involves a shared decision-making process between the health care provider and patient with advanced or terminal illness and adheres to patient's goal of care.
POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
What does EMTALA stand for?
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
What four exceptions would allow for the release of medical records without the patient's authorization or a signed release form from the patient?
Criminal acts, legally ordered, communicable diseases, and mandated examinations
Give 5 signs of abuse.
previously filed reports of physical or sexual abuse, documented abuse, different stories between parents and child, stories of incidents and injuries, injuries blamed on other family members, repeated visits to the ER, discolorations/bruising, dislocations, delays in normal growth and development, erratic school attendance, poor hygiene, malnutrition, obvious dental neglect, neglected well-baby procedures.
What is autonomy?
the capacity to think, decide, and act on one's own free will and initiative