BASICS
KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT IS RIGHT VERSUS WRONG.
What is Ethics?
Any treatment, intentional or unintentional that causes harm to a person's body.
What is physical abuse?
Emotional harm caused by threatening, frightening, isolating, intimidating, humiliating, or insulting a person.
Actions or the failure to act or give proper care to a person, resulting in unintended injury.
This law sets standards for protecting the privacy of patients' health information.
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA?
Rules set by the government.
What are laws?
The forcing of unwanted sexual acts or behavior on a person.
What is sexual abuse?
The use of language that threatens, embarrasses, or insults a person.
What is verbal abuse?
The purposeful failure to provide needed care, resulting in physical, mental, or emotional harm.
What is active neglect?
What is Protected Health Information (PHI)?
A legal advocate for residents in long term care (LTC) facilities.
What is an Ombudsman?
The intentional touching of a person without his or her consent.
What is battery?
A threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that he or she will be harmed.
What is assault?
Unintentional failure to provide needed care, resulting in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person.
What is passive neglect?
Violating a person's right to be left alone or exposing information about that person without his/her consent.
What is invasion of privacy?
Federal law passed in 1987 that includes minimum standards for NA training, staffing requirements, resident assessment instructions, and information on resident rights.
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)?
Abuse by spouses, intimate partners, or family members.
What is domestic violence?
The separation of a person from others against their will.
What is involuntary seclusion?
Occurs when a negligent or improper act due to professional misconduct results in damage or injury to a person.
What is malpractice?
What is health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)?
Part of OBRA that sets minimum requirements for training and testing NAs.
Unlawful restraint that affects a person's freedom of movement. Both the threat and physically restraining are included.
What is false imprisonment?
Any statement written (libel) or spoken (slander) that is not true. This statement must injure a person's reputation and/or cause damage to the person's ability to make a living.
What is defamation?
People required to report observed or suspected abuse because they have regular contact with vulnerable populations, such as the elderly in long term care (LTC) facilities.
What is mandated reporters?
This outlines the medial care a person wants or does not want in case he/she becomes unable to make those decisions.