Legal/Risk
This legal action is filed when someone feels they have suffered harm at the hands of a healthcare provider
What is a malpractice claim or malpractice suit?
The most effective way to prevent HAI
What is hand hygiene?
This agency is responsible for a triennial survey of all Medicare and Medicaid participating hospitals across the United States. It accredits more than 22,000 US health care organizations and programs
What is the Joint Commission?
This term refers to the overall impression a patient has of their healthcare encounter. it includes things like communication, empathy and perceived quality of care
What is patient experience?
This is a document that patients make know their wishes for end of life care
What are advanced directives?
The legal term used for a person who initiates a lawsuit
What is the plaintiff?
This infectious endospore disease requires the patient room to remain on isolation even after the patient has been successfully treated and symptoms of disease have subsided. The isolation precaution may be removed only after a terminal clean is done.
What is C. Difficile?
An annual, voluntary survey of U.S. hospitals that assigns grades to nearly 3,000 U.S. hospitals based on their ability to prevent harm, including: rate of inpatient injuries, prevalence of inpatient infections, and medical and medication errors.
What is a Leap Frog Safety Grade survey?
This 27 question survey was created by the federal government in 2002 to assess patient satisfaction scores
What are HCAPS?
This is a group of clinical, legal and ethical experts who can be called when ethical issues arise during the course of a patient's care
What is the Ethics Committee
Performing a procedure without obtaining this can result in a criminal charge of assault
What is informed consent?
This type of bacterial Menningitis requires the administration of ABT to any contacts of a source patient.
What is Meningicoccal Meningitis? (Nisseria Meningitis)
This concept is a new addition to the Federal Government's compliance requirements. It involves social determinates of health. It's aim is to improve the quality of care across all demographics
What is Health Equity?
This component of care requires providers to inform patients about their diagnosis, treatment options, and self care strategies to empower them in managing their health
What is Patient Education?
This infamous clinical study occurred over the course of decades and intentionally infected intellectually disabled people in the care of the State of New York here on Staten Island. This study allowed for the discovery of the hepatitis vaccine
What is the Willowbrook Hepatitis study?
NY State Family Health Care Decisions Act provides this avenue for patients who do not have a Health care Proxy and lack capacity to make decisions for themselves
What is a Health Care Surrogate?
A measles infection requires this type of transmission based isolation and PPE use.
What is airborne isolation with use of an N95 mask?
This is the acronymic name of the national, standardized publicly reported survey of patient's perceptions of health care
What are HCAPS?
This term requires providers ability to effectively communicate and interact with patients from diverse cultural backgrounds contributing to improved patient satisfaction and outcomes
What is cultural competenc?
This area of philosophy is widely considered the umbrella sub field within the study of ethics that includes the Ethics of clinical Practice, Human Research Subject Ethics and Medical Ethics
What is Bioethics?
Under the law this is the standard that all reasonable, prudent physicians would use
What is the standard of care?
This Blood Borne Viral Pathogen encountered in healthcare settings is preventable only thru vaccination; there are no antiviral treatment regimes.
What is Hepatitis B?
This is the person who leads the Quality department which includes Patient Experience, Infection Prevention and the Ethics Committee at RUMCSI
Who is Robert McFayden?
The name of the vendor used to administer the HCAPS survey and gather patient satisfaction data
What is Press Ganey?
This philosopher is known for coining the famous "Trolley Problem" which highlights how different moral judgements are made in virtually identical case scenarios i.e. it is morally correct to kill 1 to save 5 trolley scenario but morally repugnant to kill 1 in a hospital and use their organs to save 5 others
Who is Judith Jarvis Thomson?