ETHICS
This is the discipline that considers what is right or what should be done in the face of uncertainty or conflict about values. It involves making reflective judgments about the optimal decision or action among ethically justifiable options. Values are strongly held beliefs, ideals, principles, or standards that inform ethical decisions or actions.
From VHA Directive 1004
What is Ethics?
This has even been called a “signature injury” of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom that may be caused by a blow to the head, the head striking an object, or by an explosion in close proximity.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
This is a type of organization that experiences fewer than anticipated accidents or events of harm despite operating in highly complex, high-risk environments. Leaders promote a Just Culture that balances individual accountability with systems thinking. Leaders must fairly distinguish between conduct deserving of discipline versus the much more common unintentional human error or drift from protocol that can lead to harm despite the best efforts and intentions of staff. The VHA is undergoing a transformational modernization into this type of organization.
What is a High Reliability Organization (HRO)?
This program supports Veterans with legal issues related to their mental health and provides resources for other legal matters
What is Veteran's Justice Outreach (VJO)?
"She" is VA’s automated text messaging app that sends health information and reminders to you. Any cellphone with texting capabilities can receive messages from "her" and "her" Coronavirus Precautions protocol messages can help you monitor symptoms and advise you when to contact your VA care team or a nurse triage line. The messages also provide general wellness tips and steps you can take to protect yourself
Who is Annie (App)?
Possible alternative answer: What is VEText?
The governing body for Ohio Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists?
The governing body for Ohio Psychologists?
What is the Ohio CSWMFT Board?
What is Ohio Board of Psychology?
American combat veterans have a much higher prevalence of this mental health disorder than American civilians. Between 11-20% of veterans from Operations Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Enduring Freedom (OEF) experience it in a given year. Approximately 12% of Gulf War (Desert Storm) veterans and 15% of Vietnam veterans are affected by it on an annual basis. The lifetime prevalence for Vietnam veterans is 30%.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
The VA utilizes this screen as evidenced-based measurement of suicidal risk.
Bonus: if this screen is positive, this screen, which is longer and more comprehensive, must then be completed?
What is the Columbia Screen for Suicide Risk?
Bonus: What is the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation (CSRE)?
This program collaborates with Veterans who have been out of competitive work due to mental or medical disability
What is VHA Vocational Rehabilitation Services? (previously known at Compensated Work Therapy)
Use this system to send secure messages asking non-urgent, non-emergency health related questions, update your VA health care team on your health condition, request VA referrals and medication renewals, and manage your VA appointments
What is My Healthy Vet Secure Messaging?
Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect and Excellence
What are VA's ICARE values?
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Client information, disparaging comments about colleagues or client groups, unprofessional media (e.g., photographs and/or videos that undercut the reputation of agency/ practice), comments about litigation in which one is involved.
What are things that therapists should never post on social media?
These individuals work work within the VHA Enterprise Risk Management system (which identifies the greatest risks to the entire organization) to manage risk throughout the VA health care system. Once the greatest risks are identified, these individuals determine an appropriate, integrated response to include preventing the risk; mitigating its dangers; managing implementation of the response; and funding the plan.
What are risk managers?
Some studies estimate that approximately 1% of veteran males (32,000 men) and 22% of veteran females (23,000 women) are exposed to this during their time in military service.
What is Military Sexual Trauma?
This office performs a critical role in ensuring the excellence of the health care and services Veterans receive. Its mission is to strengthen trust and confidence in the Veterans health care system by fostering an ethical and just organizational culture, and by integrating information from internal and external oversight activities.
What is VHA's Office of Integrity?
Mental health providers should develop and disclose policies and procedures for notifying clients of any breach of information in a timely manner.
What is HIPAA Privacy and Confidentiality?
Establishing secure connection, obtaining consent, collecting emergency contact info, verifying address and phone number and locking the room.
What is CAPS LOCK?
Will also accept: appropriate steps to conducting a VVC session.
The Tarasoff case created this mandate for all social workers.
What is Duty to Warn?
This division includes Health Care for Homeless Veterans (HCHV), HUD/VASH, and the Grant per Diem Program for Veterans.
What is Community Outreach Division?
This agency is recognized as a world leader in the development and use of telehealth. Telehealth services are mission-critical to it's future of care for the agency's clients.
What is the VA?
These policies and practices are informed by a strong body of evidence that shows interventions to be practical, feasible, effective, safe and cost-effective in diverse social, cultural and economic settings that are relatively easily implemented. There continues to be stigma surrounding this (see recent evidence in West Virginia).
What is harm reduction/ harm minimalization?
In 2018, as part of this Act, the VA set the "Anywhere to Anywhere" telehealth initiative, seeking to ensure that by 2021, 100% of providers in outpatient Mental Health and Primary Care service lines nationwide would be both capable and experienced with telehealth service delivery into the home
What is The Mission Act?
This National Center serves as VA's authoritative resource for addressing the complex ethical issues that arise in patient care, health care management, and research.
They provide information, education, and consultation and oversee nationwide programs and quality improvement projects to help health care practitioners and administrators to understand and apply health care ethics standards.
They also provide information to Veterans, patients, and their families to help them understand ethical issues that relate to their health care experience.
What is the The National Center for Ethics in Health Care?
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He is the Secretary of Veterans Affairs who was selected by President Joe Biden and sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris on 9 February 2021.
Who is Denis McDonough?
Practicing this will help you thrive as a mental health provider in respect to your clients, co-workers, and your own professional growth.
What is the Practice of Ethics?