Healthcare Law
A law that provides legal protection to the rescuer, shielding them from liability for any reasonable actions taken to help.
What is the Good Samaritan Act?
What does HIPAA stand for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
The science of using data information and technology to improve healthcare outcomes and decision-making.
What is Health Informatics?
What is EBP?
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a problem-solving approach to clinical practice that combines the deliberate and systematic use of best evidence in combination with a clinician’s expertise, patient preferences and values, and available health care resources in making decisions about patient care.
A system's explicit value of reporting errors without punishment.
What is a Just Culture?
An agreement by the patient to receive medical care after being told of the risks, benefits, alternative treatments, and the potential consequences for refusal
What is informed consent?
What is HIPAA?
A federal law that protects a patient’s personal health information (PHI) from being shared without consent. It ensures patients’ privacy and promotes trust in the healthcare system.
A computer program that aids and supports clinical decision making.
What is a clinical decision support system?
Research which aims to explore and understand experiences, meanings, and perceptions that are difficult to measure numerically.
What is Qualitative Research?
An event that results in unintended harm to the patient by an act of commission or omission rather than by the underlying disease or condition of the patient
What is an adverse event?
What is the difference between assault vs. battery?
Assault --> threat
Battery --> physical touching
How can you prevent HIPAA breaches?
- Logging off computers when not in use
- Shredding papers containing PHI
-Not discussion patient matters in public areas
- Only provide need-to-know information
Tools and systems used to store, manage, or retrieve patient data (Cerner, Epic, etc.)
What is Health Information Technology?
Research that aims to measure and quantify variables; focuses on testing hypotheses and analyzing relationships using numbers.
What is quantitative research?
Errors that can establish a situation in which an error can occur but does not directly lead to an accident.
What is a blunt end/latent error?
What are the 4 necessary criteria for establishing malpractice?
1. Duty
2. Breach
3. Harm
4. Causation
Can you provide police officers with patient information?
Only if there is a court order.
What are some positive outcomes for HIT?
Improves patient safety: EHR reduces medication errors, offers alerts like allergies or drug interactions.
Enhances care coordination: EHR enables sharing of patient information to the healthcare team.
Increases efficiency: Saves time and resources.
Data analytics: Providers can analyze the trends for improved health management.
What are the elements of a PICOT question?
Patient Population of interest
Intervention or area of interest
Comparison
Outcome
Time
Errors that occur because of the administration of treatment, delay of treatment, or procedures and operations
What are treatment errors?
Classify the following as intentional, quasi-intentional, or unintentional:
Defamation of character, malpractice, assault, invasion of privacy, negligence, battery, and false imprisonment.
Intentional: Assault, battery, false imprisonment
Quasi-intentional - defamation of character, invasion of privacy
Unintentional: malpractice and negligence
What is the nurse's role with HIPAA?
Keep all patient information private and only share it with authorized staff involved in their care. Nurses are responsible for maintaining confidentiality at all times, both inside and outside the workplace.
What are the 5 domains of Health Informatics?
Translational Bioinformatics
Clinical Research Informatics
Clinical informatics
Consumer health informatics
Public health informatics
What are the 7 steps of EBP in order?
Cultivate a spirit of inquiry within an EBP culture and environment
Ask a clinical question in PICOT question.
Search for the most relevant and best evidence
Critically appraise the evidence you gather
Integrate the best evidence with your clinical expertise and patient preference and values to make the best clinical decision.
Evaluate the outcome of practice changes based on evidence.
Communicate the outcomes of EBP decisions or changes.
What is the difference between a slip, a lapse, a mistake, and a violation?
Slip: an execution error of a correct plan
Lapse: memory failure
Mistakes: an error in planning or judgment
Violations: deliberate breach of a rule or procedure.