Legal Responsibilities
Violating a patient's protected rights to privacy
Invasion of Privacy
Slander(spoken) and Libel(written) are false statements that either cause a person to be ridiculed or damage a persons reputation
Defamation
What order do you obtain? Cannot perform CPR when the patient stops breathing?
DNR
Procedures, processes, and actions that health care providers are legally permitted to perform in keeping with the terms of their professional license of registration
Scope of Practice
What does the abbreviation DNR mean?
Do Not Resuscitate
To restrain an individual or restrict an individuals freedom without authorization
False Imprisonment
Information about the patients must remain private and can be shared only with members directly involved in care
Confidentiality
Legal documents designed to indicate a persons wishes regarding care in case of a terminal illness during the dying process
Advance Directives
Who owns the rights to your health care records?
Health care providers, Hospitals, Facilities
What does the abbreviation HIPPA protect?
Protects health information
The unlawful touching of another person without consent
Battery
Threat or attempt to injure a person
Assult
A document that permits an individual (known as a principle) to appoint another person(known as an agent) to make any decisions regarding health care if the principle should become unable to make decisions.
POA-Durable Power of Attorney
Providing only the care that you are trained to do, accept no tips or brides for the care you provide, reporting faulty equipment is an example of what standard?
Professional Standard
What does POA stand for?
Failure to give expected care
Negligence
What are two types of legal disabilities that would prevent a person from signing a contract?
Minors(under 18), mentally incompetent, under the influence of drugs, semiconscious/unconscious
What Act provides residents in long-term care facilities certain rights guaranteed.
Ombudsman Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)
A list of patient’s rights, implemented by the Department of Health and Human Services, that must be recognized and honored by health care providers.
Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
What does EMR stand for?
Electronic Medical Record
What are two examples of information that is exempt by law and not considered to be privileged communication?
Births, deaths, injuries caused by violence(abuse) that may require police involvement, drug abuse, communicable disease and STD's.
Two ways Health care facilities create safeguards to maintain computer confidentiality?
Using passwords, monitoring personal, iris scan, fingerprints
Three parts of a contract
Offer, Acceptance, Consideration
Bad practice, failure of a professional to use the degree of skill and learning commonly expected in that individuals profession
Malpractice
What does ADA stand for?
American Disability Act