Law and ethics

POA

Power of attorney

EMR

Electronic medical record

AMA

Against medical advice

DNI

Do not intubate

DNR

Do not resuscitate

Which methods below are legal methods to destroy paper or physical medical records? Select all that apply.

shredding, burning

Interfering/breaking a criminal law is called a

crime

interfering/breaking a civil law is called a

tort

Permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind after a procedure and all risks involved have been explained is

informed consent

Which of the following are signs or symptoms of abuse

all may be signs of abuse

Which of the following best describes a providers “scope of practice”

Procedures, processes, and actions that health care providers are legally permitted to perform

Principles relating to what is morally right or wrong are known as

ethics

In order to protect the safety and confidentiality of health care records, healthcare facility may use all of the following methods EXCEPT:

Providing acess to medical records to all employees

HIPAA

establishes standards for how to protect health information is managed, used, and protected

PPACA

guarantees certain rights pertaining to health insurance coverage

OBRA

guarantees certain rights to residents in long term care facilities

PSDA

Requires all facilities receiving federal aid to inform

adults of their rights to make deCIsIOns on their medical care

A legal document that allows an individual to state what measures should or should not be taken to prolong life when a condition is terminal is a

living will

A false written statement that causes a person to be ridiculed or damages the persons repuation is kown as

libel

a false spoken statment is known as

slander

both libel and slander are considered

defamation

a law that focuses on the legal relationships between people and the protection of persons right

civil

a law that focuses on wrongs against a person,property, or society

Criminal

Health care records belong to whom

the healthcare provider

Which individuals below are not capable of forming a contract

unconscious or partially conscious individuals, minors

Which of the following is not considered a legal disability, and therfore enter into a contract

an adult over the age of 65

which of the following is not a right of patients

a patient is entitles to free care regardless of circumstances

what are three parts of a contract

offer, acceptance, consideration

negligence

a patient falls and is injured when the side rails of the bed are mistakenly left down

invasion of privacy

Information is given to a patients concerned friend without a patients written consent

mal practice

a physicians performs a surgery without proper handwashing and the patient gets an infection

abuse (verbal)

a health care worker shouts or swears at a patient

slander

A health care worker tells anther person false information about a patient

which of the following methods would not promote safety and security of health care records

sharing passwords to provide greater acess for staff

the privacy standards of the HIPAA require all of the following except

patients must sign a consent form to allow a birth or death certificate to be recorded by a government agency