Patient Consent
This federal law protects patient privacy and the confidentiality of their medical records.
What is HIPPA document.
What is negligence?
What is a failure to follow a reasonable standard of care, thereby causing or contributing to injury or damage to another.
As a medical personel, the following measure may be taken to help the family deal with the dying process.
What is:
-recognize family's needs with diginity and respect
-Allow the patient and the family to express rage, anger and despair.
-Do not falsely reassure
-Use a gentle tone of voice
What is next of kin?
What is the closest relatives, as defined by state law, of a patient or decease
A patient nodding their head or extending their arm for a blood pressure check is an example of this type of consent.
What is Expressed Consent
If patient continues to refuse care, they will need to fill out what document?
What is Informed Refusal Release Form.
What are situations of obvious death that do not need examination?
1) decapitation
2) rigor mortis
3) decomposition of the body
4) dependent lividity
What is Battery
What is the legal term used to descrve the unlawful touching of a person without that persons consent
If you encounter a parent who refuses to
allow you to provide care, what should you do?
What is explain the consequences of not caring for the patient. Use terms the parent or guardian will understand.
Refusal of care is all or nothing.
True or False.
What is False
What is a situation when PHI is disclosed without permission
What is ..
PHI can be disclosed for purposes of research
without authorization, under certain
conditions.
PHI may be disclosed to report abuse,
neglect or domestic violence under specified
circumstances.
A covered entity may disclose PHI in the
course of a judicial or an administrative
proceeding under specified circumstances.
Organ-procurement agencies may use PHI for
the purposes of facilitating a transplant.
Covered entities usually may disclose PHI to a
health oversight agency for oversight activities
authorized by law.
The Privacy Rule permits disclosure of work-
related health information as authorized by, and to the extent necessary to comply with, workers’ compensation programs.
What is a living will?
another type of advance directive, a legal document that outlines a patient’s wishes about certain kinds of medical treatments and procedures
This type of consent applies when an unconscious or unresponsive patient needs emergency medical care.
What is Implied Consent.
give one example of what you should do when a patient refuses care.
-Follow local policies related to refusal of care.
-tell patient that help is needed and why
-Try to convince them again
-Remind injured or ill persons that they can
call emergency medical services (EMS) personnel
again if the situation changes or if they change
their mind
What is...
1:The EMR had a duty to act
2: The EMR breached the duty
3:The patient was injured because the EMR breached his or her duty
4: Harm or injury occurred
What is the person named in a durable power of attorney for health care to make medical decisions on the patient's behalf.
What is A health care proxy.
This type of consent is required when treating a minor, unless in an emergency situation.
What is parental/guardian consent?
What is Advance Directives?
What is a set of written instructions that describes a person’s wishes about medical care
What is a DNR?
What is a do not resuscitate order, a legal document that instructs medical professionals not to perform CPR on a patient if their heart or breathing stops
If a minor refuses care and the parent or guardian is unavailable, this person might be asked to make the decision.
What is next of kin?