Vocab
Federal law that sets standards for protecting the privacy of patients health information
What is HIPPA
A CNA reads a residents chart without permission because they are curious
DNR
What is Do Not Resuscitate?
Residents have the right to speak privately with anyone, the right to privacy during care, and the right to confidentiality regarding every aspect of their life
What is The Right to Privacy and Confidentiality?
Repeated use of legal or illegal substances in a way harmful to oneself or others
What is Substance Abuse?
Professional misconduct that results in damage or injury to a person
What is Malpractice ?
What is Law?
PHI
What is Protected Health Information?
Residents have the right to visits from doctors, family members, friends, and legal representatives
What is The Right to Visits?
Abuse by spouses, intimate partners, or family members
What is Domestic Violence?
Information that can be used to identify a person and relates to the patients condition including any healthcare the person has had
What is PHI (Protected Health Information) ?
A CNA promises to come back and help a resident to the bathroom but forgets and never returns?
What is Ethical?
HIPAA
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
Residents must be respected and treated with dignity by caregivers
What is The Right to Dignity, Respect, and Freedom?
Actions or the failure to act or give proper care to a person, resulting in unintended injury
What is Negligence?
A medical order that tells medical professionals not to place a breathing tube in a person
What is DNI (Do Not Intubate) ?
A nurse shares a patients diagnoses with their family without asking the patient first
What is Law?
OBRA
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act?
Residents have the right to see and sign their care plans after all significant changes
What is Involuntary Seclusion?
A legal advocate for residents in long-term facilities
What is Ombudsman ?
A CNA refuses to take care of a resident because they don't like their cultural background
What is Ethical and Law?
NATCEP
Healthcare professionals at facilities are required to develop a care plan for residents, and their care must keep them as healthy as possible, providing residents with the right care.
Defamation in written form
What is Libel?