RT Agencies
AARC
What is American Association of Respiratory Care?
Rule in which you treat medical records and PHI as confidential.
What is the Privacy Rule?
Duty, Breach of Duty, Causation of Damage, Proof of Damage.
What are the 4 elements of negligence?
Patients have a right to decide their own course of treatment.
What is Autonomy?
Edwin Levine MD
Who was the founder of Inhalation Therapy?
RT Credentialing Agency
What is NBRC?
A rule that protects individuals' electronic personal health information.
What is the Security Rule?
patient consent given for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits.
What is informed consent?
Patient information should only be discussed in private and with persons who will also be part of that patient's treatment plan.
What is Confidentiality?
State that passed the first licensure law for Respiratory Therapy.
What is California?
What is CoARC?
Patient charts, faxes, emails, spoken, other records.
What are forms of PHI?
(Protected Health Information)
Act of breaking an agreement.
What is a Breach?
Going above and beyond the Duty of Do No Harm.
What is beneficence?
The only state that does not require state licensure for Respiratory Therapy.
What is Alaska?
You do 22 Simulations and 20 are scored.
What is the CSE (Clinical Simulation Exam)?
Due to this rule, HIPAA can investigate a complaint.
What is the Enforcement Rule?
Negligence and Carelessness, can be civil or criminal.
What is malpractice?
Failure to perform one's duties competently.
What is Negligence?
3 Early name/s for a Respiratory Therapist.
What is oxygen technician, oxygen orderly, inhalation technician, neb jockey, inhalation therapist?
A license you must renew every 2 years, on June 30 of the even numbered years.
What is state licensure?
The form that consent has to be in for information to be disclosed.
What is written form?
"the thing that speaks for itself"
harm would not have occurred if appropriate care had been used.
What is Res Ipsa Loquitor?
Not what you could do, but what you SHOULD do.
What is Morality?
129,600
What is the current number of working respiratory therapists in the US?