DIPPS
What does the D represent in the acronym DIPPS
Dignity. State of feeling worthy, valued, and respected.
What are the 4 principle of health care ethics?
Autonomy, Justice, Beneficence, and Non-maleficence.
Define a right.
Something to which a person in justly entitled.
What is the name of the health act in Canada?
Canada Health Act.
What does the principle of Accessibility mean?
People can receive medically necessary medical services regardless of their income, age, health status, or gender.
What do the 2 P's in the acronym DIPPS represent?
Preferences. Clients need to make choices on how they want to have things done.
Privacy. Clients needs to know that their bodies and affairs are treated respectfully and protected from the public.
Define the Justice principle.
Treating everyone equally and fairly.
As a support worker, how you conduct yourself at work and how you relate to your clients are determined by?
Your professional code of ethics.
Your employers policies.
Federal and provincial or territorial laws.
What are the 5 principles of Medicare that are listed in the Canada Health Act?
Comprehensiveness, Universality, Portability, Accessibility, and Public Administration.
What the does the principle of Portability mean?
People can keep their Canadian health care coverage even if they are unemployed, change jobs, relocate between provinces and territories, or travel within Canada or abroad. Keep in mind, if you are moving provinces it is your responsibility to register with your new province for health care within in 3 months of you moving there, your previous province will only cover you for 3 months.
What does the S represent in the acronym DIPPS?
Safety. Clients needs to live in a safe and hazard free environment and also need to feel secure about the care they receive.
Define the Non-maleficence principle.
To do NO harm.
Define the term support worker.
The term refers to the worker who provides personal care and support services to their client, resident, or patient.
What is Primary care?
Where people will go to seek out care for acute medical problems such as a broken bone or a bad cough.
What does the principle of Universality mean?
Every permanent resident of a province or territory is entitled to receive the Canadian insured health services plan.
What does the I represent in the acronym DIPPS?
Independence. Clients need to know what they can do for themselves.
Define the Beneficence principle.
To do or promote good.
What are personal care responsibilities of a personal support worker?
To assist with ADLs (Activities of daily living) such as eating, bathing, grooming, dressing, and toileting. Also assist clients with limited mobility to change positions or move them from one place to another and also promote a clients safety and physical comfort.
What is Secondary care?
Referral by a primary care physician to a specialist who has a more specific expertise in that specific are that requires treatment.
What does the principle of Comprehensiveness mean?
The Canadian insurance plan must pay for all medically necessary medical services. In a hospital, all necessary drugs in the hospital, supplies within a hospital or doctor's office, and diagnostic testing.
What is the goal of support work?
To demonstrate true client-centered care following the DIPPS principle and treating clients with respect, kindness, honesty, sensitivity, comfort, discretion, and understanding.
Define the Autonomy principle.
Respecting the clients right to refuse and make decisions and choices for themselves.
What are the 6 responsibilities of a personal support worker?
2. Support for nurses and other healthcare providers.
3. Family Support.
4. Social Support.
5. Housekeeping or home management.
6. Documenting and reporting all tasks on the clients record or chart.
Highly specialized level of healthcare that require specialized care units such as, ICU intensive care units and advanced treatment services.
What does the principle of Public Administration mean?
The Canadian insurance plan must be run by a public organization on a non-profit basis and must be accountable to the citizens and the government of the province or territory.