Law and Regulatory
What does HIPPA do for patients?
Protect patient privacy
What is Criminal Law?
Offenses against public, state, or society as a whole.
What is Direct Cause?
Provider's breach of duty directly caused the patient's injury or harm
What is Autonomy?
Patients have the right to make their own healthcare decisions
What is a living will?
A document specifying what medical treatments a patient wants or refuses in case they become incapacitated.
Federal law that ensures that the patients are informed about their rights to make decisions about their help, particularly with advanced directives and end-of-life care.
What is the Patient Self-Determination Act
What is Medical Malpractice?
Professional negligence by a healthcare provider.
Patient suffered actual harm (physical, emotional, or financial) as a result of the negligence. Which one is it?
Damage
Treating patients with highly individualized care, find out what they want and give it to them as much as you can within their plan of care.
That is the Platinum Rule
What is Advance Directives?
Legal documents that outline the patient's wishes for medical care if the patient is unable to do so.
What is the most important out of all three? HIPPA, CLIA, OSHA
All of them
What is a intentional tort?
Assault, battery, defamation, invasion of privacy.
Known as Breach of Duty
Dereliction
What ethic means "Do no harm"?
Nonmaleficence
Which directive is this? A medical order stating that the patient does not want CPR or other resuscitation efforts if their heart stops or they stop breathing.
DNR (Do Not Resuscitate)
What does OSHA do?
Workplace safety for healthcare employees
What are torts?
Wrongful acts that cause harm?
Healthcare provider has a legal duty to provide care to the patient based on the establishment standard of care. What is it?
Duty
What is Beneficence?
Healthcare providers must act in the best interest of patients
What directive is this? A legal document that designates a healthcare agent to make medical decisions if the patient is unable to do so.
POA (Power of Attorney)
What does HIPPA stand for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What is Civil Law?
Disputes between individuals or entities
What is Negligence?
Failing to provide standard care, leading to patient harm.
What ethic covers the fair and equal treatment of all patients, regardless of background, socioeconomic status, or medical condition?
Justice
Agent, Proxy or person representing the patient who is unable to represent themselves.
What is a Durable Medical Power of Attorney?