Legal Requirements
What does HIPAA stand for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
what should the MA do if they don't get consent?
MA must record and tell provider
How many guarantees does the Patient Bill of Rights have?
15
What violation is being committed when a MA lets a patient walk on a wet floor and the patient falls causing a broken arm.
Negligence.
What are the two main categories of law?
Criminal Law and Civil Law
True or False: The OSH Act regulates precaution and rules for needlestick safety and injury
True
What is informed consent?
Patients know, understand, and accept the treatment.
Laws that explain the rights and responsibilities of medical providers and patients
Define tort.
"Wrong", or a harmful act committed by one individual to another.
What are the two categories of crimes?
Misdemeanor and Felony
What are the 4 exceptions that would allow for the release of medical records without patient authorization?
Criminal Acts, Legally Ordered, Communicable Diseases, Mandated Examinations
If the patient signs a paper to accept getting an injection. What type of consent is the patient giving?
Expressed consent
What are the 3 safeguards to keep patient information private
Administrative Safeguard, Physical Safeguard, and Technical Safeguard
What are the 5 types of abuse?
Physical, Verbal/Emotional, Psychological, Sexual, and Economic
An MA notices bruises and cuts on a child. The parents say the child fell. What should the MA do?
Notify the physician or health care provider
Define Administrative Safeguard
Performing Internal Audits
List AND describe the 3 forms of consent.
Implied Consent has the patient express consent through signs actions or conduct.
Expressed Consent has the patient show consent orally or through written words.
Informed Consent ensured the patient or their parent/legal guardian knows, understands, and accepts procedures & treatments
Who created the Patient Bill of Rights?
The American Hospital Association
What specific professionals are to report suspected abuse and neglect to appropriate agencies?
Social workers, Teachers, Principals, Physicians, Counselors, Medical examiners or coroners, Law enforcement officers, Childcare providers
List all mandatory reporting guidelines.
Births, Deaths, Certain Communicable Diseases, Assaults or criminal Acts, and abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
Define the HITECH Act
Law that increases enforcement of privacy and security of patient information such as prohibiting the sale of PHI, making business associates and vendors liable for compliance with HIPAA and creating a penalty and violation system.
What is the "ethical principals of do no harm"
Nonmaleficence
What does HERCA stand for?
Heads of the European Radiological Protection Competent Authorities
What are the four Ds of negligence?
Duty of Care, Dereliction of Duty, Direct Cause, and Damages
List 3 signs of potential abuse.
Poor hygiene, Malnutrition, erratic school attendance, injuries blamed on other family members, obvious dental neglect, neglected well-baby procedures, normal growth and development delays, dislocations, bruising, repeating emergency visits, suspicious incidents/injuries stories, documented abuse, previous filed reports of physical/sexual abuse of the child.