Forms of Neglect
The failure to provide needed care that results in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person.
What is neglect?
Keeping residents covered when possible and making sure their bodies are not unnecessarily exposed when time for bodily cleaning.
What is privacy when bathing?
Emotional harm caused by threatening, scaring, humiliating, intimidating, isolating, or insulting a person, or treating him or her as a child.
What is psychological abuse?
Residents have the right to visits from doctors, family members, friends, ombudsmen, clergy members, etc.
What is the right to visits?
Outlines the medical care a person wants, or does not want, in case he or she becomes unable to make those decisions.
What is a living will?
The purposeful failure to provide needed care, resulting in harm to a person.
What is active neglect?
Making sure the door is closed and the curtain is drawn when getting a resident ready for the day with clothes?
What is privacy when dressing?
The use of spoken or written words, pictures, or gestures that threaten, embarrass, or insult a person.
What is verbal abuse?
Residents have the right to speak privately with anyone, the right to privacy during care and the right to confidentiality regarding every aspect of their lives.
What is the right to privacy and confidentiality?
A medical order that instructs medical professionals not to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest.
What is a DNR (don-not-resuscitate)?
The unintentional failure to provide needed care, resulting in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person.
What is passive neglect?
Pulling the privacy curtain around the bed and closing the door in the event of a cardiac arrest?
What is privacy during CPR?
The forcing of a person to perform or participate in sexual acts against his or her will.
What is sexual abuse?
Residents have the right to make complaints and voice grievances without fear for their safety or care.
What is the right to complain?
Legal documents that allow people to decide what kind of medical care they wish to have in the event they cannot make those decisions themselves.
What are advance directives?
When a person is injured due to professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill.
What is malpractice?
Making sure curtains are drawn and the door is closed during hygiene care, grooming, transferring, eliminated, ADLS, etc.
What is privacy during personal care?
Abuse by spouses, intimate partners, or family members.
What is domestic violence?
Residents have to right to be informed of and to consent to any location changes.
What are the rights during transfers and discharges?
A signed, dated, and witnessed legal document that appoints someone to make medical decisions for a person in the event he or she becomes unable to do so.
What is the durable power of attorney?
Actions or the failure to act or provide the proper care for a resident, resulting in unintended injury.
What is negligence?
Residents have the right to a lack of disturbance in the event of meeting their sexual needs.
What is privacy during sexual expression?
The repeated use of legal or illegal drugs, cigarettes, or alcohol in a way that harms oneself or others.
What is substance abuse?
The facility must provide residents with access to social services, including counseling, assistance in solving problems with others, and help contacting legal and financial professionals.
What are the rights to regard social services?
This order specifies treatments to be used when a person is very ill. These treatments are what the person wants to receive, now what he wishes to avoid.
What is a Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)?