Healthcare Settings
This type of care is used for a life-threatening emergency.
What is emergency care?
This healthcare professional helps patients improve strength, balance, and movement.
Who is a physical therapist (PT)?
This law helps protect a patient's private health information.
What is HIPAA?
This ethical principle means a patient has the right to make their own healthcare decisions.
What is autonomy?
Which of these is a physiological need: oxygen, friendship, respect, or achievement?
What is oxygen?
This type of care provides regular healthcare and preventive services.
What is primary care?
This professional helps patients with activities such as bathing, dressing, and other daily activities.
Who is an occupational therapist (OT)?
This means keeping a patient's information private.
What is confidentiality?
This principle means doing what benefits the patient.
What is beneficence?
This is the first level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
What are physiological needs?
This setting treats illnesses or injuries that need prompt attention but are not life-threatening.
What is urgent care?
This healthcare professional works with medications.
Who is a pharmacist?
A healthcare worker looks at a patient's medical record even though they are not involved in that patient's care. Why is this a problem?
It violates the patient's privacy/confidentiality.
This principle means avoiding harm to the patient.
What is nonmaleficence?
This level includes protection from danger and feeling secure.
What is safety?
This service helps a patient regain strength, movement, or independence after an illness or injury.
What is rehabilitation?
This professional helps patients with breathing and respiratory problems.
Who is a respiratory therapist?
Why should healthcare workers avoid discussing patients in hallways, cafeterias, or elevators?
Because other people may hear private patient information.
This principle means treating people fairly.
What is justice?
Put these in the correct order from lowest to highest: Safety, Esteem, Physiological, Self-Actualization, Love/Belonging.
This type of care focuses on comfort and quality of life for someone with a terminal illness.
What is hospice?
This professional helps patients with nutrition and dietary needs.
Who is a dietitian?
A healthcare worker is asked by a friend, "What's wrong with that patient you were taking care of?" What should the worker do?
They should not share confidential patient information.
A patient wants to make their own healthcare decision, even though the healthcare worker would choose something different. Which ethical principle applies?
What is autonomy?
A patient is worried about being able to return home independently after surgery. Identify two of Maslow's needs that might be important for this patient.
Safety, esteem, physiological, or love/belonging, (depending on the explanation).