Laws/Policies
This law protects sensitive personal information of patients.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
This story is about a patient that forgets that he cannot eat a certain latin dish that endangers his life due to his medical condition.
What is "Dr. Ortega and the Fajita Man"?
A patient needs emergency surgery, but they only speak Portuguese. The patient's 16 year old daughter offers to translate. You politely decline and get a certified translator in the room.
What is an ethical practice?
The letter grade corresponding to this range 94-100%.
What is an A in IHS3935?
This law protects patients autonomy. Patients must be told about risks, benefits, and alternative modes of treatment. Patients must also agree before treatment is administered.
What is Informed Consent?
This story included objects such as "Joy of Cooking and Phil Ochs and the Beatles' White Album...a huge American flag that he used as a throw on this living room sofa".
What is "Bruised Apples"?
You find out that a player from the UF football team was admitted into the hospital last night. You check his information out on his chart.
What is an unethical practice?
This person was a teaching assistant for IHS1100.
Who is Daniella Zamora?
These laws protect people from being sued after they performed emergency care to someone in good faith.
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
"He told is he had tried to stop his father from wandering off by locking the doors whenever he was not at home and even by hiring a sitter to watch him, but to no avail."
What is "Dr. Ortega and the Fajita Man"?
Your patient, despite repeated explanations, refuses a treatment that would save their life. They are of sound mind and can make their own decisions. You document this and offer comfort care.
What is an ethical practice?
This person has over 38 years of experience in health care.
Who is Bobbi Knickerbocker?
This medical order inhibits anyone from performing life saving care to the person who has elected this status.
What is a DNR (Do not resuscitate)?
"Police speculated that he must have been swimming in the river when he had a seizure. A terrible accident. As far as I knew, [he] had never learned to swim".
What is "Bruised Apples"?
A homeless man stumbles into your emergency room and desperately seeks medical attention. Your coworker tells you he does this all the time, and he has no way to pay for treatment. You both just ignore him until he leaves.
What is an unethical practice?
This was the video that was supposed to be watched as homework for week 10 ethics games.
What is Medical Volunteerism?
This law states that regardless if a patient can pay for or has insurance for treatment in an emergency situation, that hospitals must treat them.
What is EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act)?
"'What's the story?'...'Why is she here? Why not in jail?' 'She made bail, and she needed the surgery.' He shrugs, as if he operates on patients who are out on bail every day."
What is "Pretending not to Know?"
You are a new nurse and are overwhelmed with the amount of patients you have. You accidentally give the wrong dose of medicine to one of your patients. You monitor him for a little, and he seems fine. You do not want to cause a scene, so you do not report it.
This day is when the service project is due for IHS3935.
What is November 16th?