Keep It Legal
A law defining drugs that pose a risk for addiction or abuse.
What is Controlled Substances Act (CSA)?
A type of injection given directly into a person's vein.
What is Intravenous (IV)?
In medication administration, to make a medical determination about a resident’s response to a drug; this is a nurse’s or doctor’s role.
What is Assess?
This is when a Medication Aide (MA) should report a mistake.
An action, or the failure to act or provide the proper care, that results in unintended injury to a person.
What is Negligence?
A rule established to help people live peacefully together and to ensure order and safety.
What is a Law?
A type of injection given under the skin, in the fat layer above the muscle.
What is Subcutaneous?
Purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or emotional pain or injury to someone.
What is Abuse?
A type of care that places the emphasis on the person needing care and his or her individuality and capabilities.
What is Person-Centered Care?
Injury to a person due to professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill.
What is Malpractice?
Rights related to how residents must be treated while living in a facility; they provide an ethical code of conduct for healthcare workers.
What are Resident Rights?
A type of injection given just underneath the outer layer of the skin.
What is Intradermal?
The failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person.
What is Neglect?
A drug that is more likely than others to be abused or to cause addiction.
What is a Controlled Substance?
Removing medications prescribed for a resident for the purpose of personal use or sale to another person.
What is Diversion?
A federal law that requires health information be kept private and secure and that organizations take special steps to protect this information.
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
A procedure that involves administering fluids into a patient's subcutaneous tissue.
What is Hypodermoclysis?
A person who is legally required to report suspected or observed abuse or neglect because they have regular contact with vulnerable populations, such as the elderly in care facilities
What is Mandated Reporter?
Natural sugar
What is Glucose?
Deception or misrepresentation of truth; in healthcare this can involve falsely documenting care.
What is Fraud
A person’s private health information, which includes name, address, telephone number, social security number, email address, and medical record number.
What is protected health information (PHI)?
A type of injection given in the muscle, usually the upper arm or thigh.
What is Inramuscular?
The tasks that healthcare providers are legally allowed to do as permitted by state or federal laws.
What is Scope of Practice?
A hormone that works to move glucose from the blood an into the cells for energy for the body.
What is Insulin?
The knowledge of right and wrong.
What is Ethics?