Dynamics of Healthcare

Review Unit 8

Study all google slides and notes taken pertaining to these slides. Study handouts and articles given in class. Study vocab! Review the study points (at the end of the chapter).

What is career development?

Career development refers to an organized planning method used to form an individual’s work identity.

Common Core Knowledge (CCK)

What topics fall under CCK? Define each.

Medical Terminology: language used in medicine that allows the practitioners to communicate with one another

Anatomy and Physiology: structures of organisms, their parts and their functions

Technical Skills: usually involves direct patient contact (vitals, CPR)

Safety and Infection Control: applying procedures and protocols to reduce the potential for bodily injury and preventing the spread of diseases from patient to patient or patient to provider

Medical Math: applying mathematical computation to healthcare procedures

Healthy Behavior: actions taken to attain, maintain, or regain good health and prevent illness

Communication: sharing of information between two people

Differentiate the two types of communication.

Verbal Communication (convey instructions, report to other HC providers) vs. Written Communication (health record, documentation)

Professionalism-How does one act if they are showing professionalism. Define Professional.

Act in an accountable and ethical manner in the workplace and maintain a steady composure in the face of adversity

Professional: Person with specialized learning who is engaged in a specified activity as an occupation

Ethics-Define ethics; code of ethics; Hippocratic Oath

Ethics: formal study of moral choices that conform to standard of conduct

Code of Ethics: written list of a profession’s values and standards of conduct

Hippocratic Oath: pledge taken by all physicians, code of ethics

Confidentiality-define; explain HIPAA; what is/is not covered under HIPAA

Confidentiality: healthcare professional’s obligation to maintain patient information in a manner that will not permit dissemination beyond the healthcare provider

HIPAA: U.S. law that safeguards protected health information (PHI) by setting national privacy and security standards. 

Covered: individually identifiable health information

• Past, present, future physical/mental health or condition

• Provision of HC to the individual

• Past, present, future payment for provision of HC to the individual

• Name, address, birth date, social security number

Not Covered: de-identified health information and permitted uses and disclosures

• Employment and education records

• To the individual

• Treatment, payment and HC operations

• Opportunity to agree or object

• Incident to an otherwise permitted use and disclosure

• Public interest and benefit activities

• Limited data set for the purposes of research, public health or health care operations

Healthcare teams-differentiate the two types of teams

Functional team: Takes care of specific problem; doctors + nurses

Patient centered team: patients, families, and doctors make HC decision together

Legal issues-differentiate licensing, accreditation and certification

Licensing: A right conferred by a government body to practice an occupation or provide a service

Accreditation: Process by which an external entity reviews an organization or program of study to determine of the organization or program meets certain predetermined standards

Certification: Action or process of providing an individual with an official document attesting to his or her status or level of achievement

Which professions need what type of credentials

Licensing: physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists (physical, occupational, respiratory)

Accreditation: hospitals, nursing programs, medical schools

Certification: addiction/behavioral health, health info administrator and technologists, mental health aids, home health aids

Understand malpractice and negligence

Malpractice: professional misconduct

• Negligence: most common type of malpractice; refers to someone failing to do something that a reasonably prudent person would do in the same or similar situation or doing something that a reasonably prudent person would not do in the same or similar situation.

• Patient has to prove: duty of care, breach of duty of care, causation, damages

Continuing education-what is it and why is it important?

Continuing education: process by which a professional seeks recurrent learning activities and training beyond that required for the initial license or certificate 

• Keep up to date on medical advances

• Provide better care to patients

• Experience professional growth

• Experience personal growth 

• Keep NHA certification active