Chapter 2: Person’s Rights Flashcards
What is an advocate?
Someone who speaks or acts on another persons behalf
What is involuntary seclusion?
Separating a person from other people against their own will, separating them from a certain area, or keeping them away from their own room.
What is an ombudsman?
Someone who supports or promotes the needs and interests of a person.
What is a representative?
Someone who has the legal right to act on another’s behalf because they cannot do so on their own.
What is treatment?
Care meant to maintain or restore health, improve function, or relieve symptoms.
What is The Patient Care Partnership: Understanding Expectations, Rights, and Responsibilities?
A document from the American Hospital Association (AHA) that describes the persons rights and expectations while they are at the hospital.
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)?
Federal law active in every state that sets minimum standards for quality of care in nursing centers.
Who enforces OBRA?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
What does OBRA enforce?
It requires that provide care that improve quality of life, health, and safety.
What are OBRA-Required Actions to Promote Dignity and Privacy?
Courteous and Dignified Interaction, Privacy and Self-Determination, Personal Choice and Independence, and Courteous and Dignified Care.
Or in an acronym, PICC (Privacy, Interactions, Care, Choice)
