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Law, Ethics, Eiquette
OBRA/Rights
Abuse & Neglect
PSDA
Other
100
The knowledge of what is right and wrong.
What is ethics ?
100
Act passed in 1987 in response to reports of poor care and abuse in long-term care facilities
What is OBRA ?
100
Intentional or unintentional treatment that causes harm to a person's body
What is physical abuse ?
100
Legal documents that allow people to decide what kind of medical care they wish tio have if they are unable to make those decisions themselves
What is advance directives ?
100
People who are required to report suspected or observed abuse or neglect because they have regular cibntact with vulnerable populations, such as the elderly in long-term care facilities
What are mandated reporters ?
200
The code of proper behavior and couresy in a certain setting.
What is etiquette ?
200
Program that sets minimum requirements for nursing assistants
What is NATCEP ?
200
The use of language-spoken or written- that threatens, embarrasses, or insults a person.
What is verbal abuse ?
200
The medical care a person wants, or does not want, in case heor she becomes unable to make those decisions
What is a living will ?
200
The legal advocate for residents
What is an ombudsman ?
300
Disputes between individuals
What is civil law ?
300
Rights that specify how residents must be treated while living in a facility
What are Residents' Rights ?
300
The use of legal or illegal drugs, cigarettes, or alcohol in a way that harms oneself or others
What is substance abuse ?
300
An order that tells medical professionals not to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)
What is a DNR order ?
300
A program notified when a nursing assistan is accused of abuse
What is the NATCEP (Curse Aide TRaining and Competency Evaluation Program) ?
400
Rules set by the government to help protect the public
What are laws ?
400
Helps specify tasks that nursing assistants are legally permitted to perform as allowed by state or federal law
What is scope of practice ?
400
Actions, or a failure to act or give proper care, that result ininjury to a person
What is negligence ?
400
Violating a person's right to be left alone or exposing information about that person without his or her consent
What is invasion of privacy ?
400
The law passed in 1996 that sets standards for protecting the privacy of patient's health information
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ?
500
Laws written to protect society from people or organizations that try to do them harm
What are criminal laws ?
500
A group of rsidents who meet regularly to discuss issues related to the long-term care facility
What is Residents' Council ?
500
A person being touched without his or her own consent
What is battery ?
500
A signed and dated legal document that appoints someone to make the medical decisions for a person in the even he or she becomes unable to do so
What is a durable power of attorney for health care ?
500
Information that can be used to identify a person and relates to the patient's past, present, or future physical or mental conditions, including any health care the patient has had, or payment for that health care.
What is Protected Health Information (PHI) ?