VULNERABLE ADULT
ADVANCED DIRECTIVE
Resident Rights
Resident Rights 2
Resident Rights 3
100
They have an impaired ability to provide for their own needs and protect themselves from harm
What is Vulnerable Adult
100
This is a written document that informs others of your wished about your health care.
What is Health care Directive
100
You have the right to be treated with courtesy and respect for your individuality by facility staff, volunteers, and anyone providing service in your health care facility
What is Courteous Treatment
100
You have the right to participate in the planning of your health
What is Participation in planning treatment
100
You have the right to respect and privacy related to your medical and personal care.
What is Treatment Privacy
200
These people must report suspected harm
What is Mandated reporters.
200
Legal document that enables an individual to designate another person, called the attorney-in-fact, to act on his/her behalf, even in the event the individual becomes disabled or incapacitated.
What is Durable Power of Attorney
200
You have the right to appropriate medical and personal care based on your individual needs. This means care that is designed to help you achieve your highest level of physical and mential potential
What is Appropriate Health Care
200
You have the right to continuity of care- this means you should be cared for, as much as possible, by regular and familiar staff people who you know and who know you.
What is Continuity of Care
200
Your personal and medical records are confidential and, in general, only you can decided whether anyone outside the facility may have access to these records and the information in them.
What is Confidentiality of Records
300
These are the some warning signs that someone is being abused.
What is Bruises and skin tears, black eyes, broken bones, burns or cuts, internal injuries, infections, changes in mental functioning or behavior, injuries that are unexplained or not consistent with the explanation given.
300
Document written by someone still legally capable requesting that he should be allowed to die if subsequently severely disabled or suffering terminal illness
What is Living Will
300
You must be given a written copy of the name, business address, telephone number, and specialty of the physician responsible for your care
What is Physician's Identity
300
You have the right to refuse treatment, medication, dietary restrictions, and any other care. When you refuse, you must ne informed about the likely medical or psychological results of refusing this care
What is Right to refuse care
300
You are entitled to complete information about what services are included in the daily rate you pay at your facility
What is Disclosure of services available
400
These are the warning signs of neglect
What is Dehydration, weight loss, malnutrition, pressure sore, poor hygiene, depression, confusion, or other changes in mental functioning, absence of needed medical equipment or prostheses, repeated falls, incontinence, isolation
400
This combines a living will and health care agent
What is Health care directive
400
You have the right to know who is providing services to you. In particular, if you receive health care services from a provider other than the facility, you must be given written information about provider, including the name, address, and a description of the service in question
What is Relationship with other health care services
400
You have the right to refuse to participate in experimental research.
What is Experimental Research
400
You have the right to a prompt and reasonable response to your questions and requests.
What is Responsive service
500
These are the signs of financial exploitation.
What is The person may say something like, “I don’t know anything about it, my son/daughter/friend handles all my business”, bills go unpaid, the person does not have access to his/her own money, the person is asked to sign documents but does not know what they are signing, changes are made in the will, assets are transferred or sold, the person is taken to the bank to make account withdrawals, personal property, like cash, checks, credit cards, jewelry, furniture, is missing
500
An order dictating that an individual does not desire resuscitative measures in the case of failed breathing or cardiac arrest.
What is DNR
500
You have the right to complete up-to-date information from your physician about your medical condition including: diagnosis, treatment plan, alternatives, risks etc.
What is Information about treatment
500
You have the right to be free from harm, including abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation.
What is Freedom from Maltreatment
500
You have the right to every consideration of your privacy, individuality, cultural identity, and social religious, and psychosocial well-being.
What is Personal Privacy