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Chapter 3 Flashcards

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Ethics

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The knowledge of right and wrong

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Laws

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Rules set by the government to help people live peacefully together and to ensure order and safely

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Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)

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Law passed by the federal government that includes minimum standards for nursing assistant training, staffing requirements, resident assessment instructions, and information on rights for residents

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Minimum Data Set (MDS)

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A detailed form with guidelines for assessing residents in long-term care facilities; also details what to do if resident problems are identified

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Residents’ Rights

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Numerous rights identified in the OBRA law that relate to how residents must be treated while living in a facility; they provide an ethical code of conduct for healthcare workers.

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Informed consent

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The process in which a person, weird the help of a doctor, makes informed decisions about his or her health care

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Abuse

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Purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or emotional pain or injury to someone

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Neglect

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Harming a person physically, mentally or emotionally by falling to provide needed care

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Malpractice

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Injury to a person due to professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill.

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Physical abuse

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Any treatment, intentional or not, that causes harm to a person’s body

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Psychological abuse

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Emotional harm caused by threatening, scaring, humiliating, intimidation, isolating, or insulting a person, or by treating him as a child; also includes verbal abuse.

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Verbal abuse

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The use of spoken or worn wigs, pictures, or gestures that threaten, embarrass, or insult a person

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Sexual abuse

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The forcing of a person to perform or participate in sexual acts against his or her will; includes unwanted touching, exposing oneself, and the shaping of phonographic material

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Financial abuse

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The act of stealing, taking advantage of, or improperly using the money, property, or other assets of another person

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Assault

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The act of threatening to touch a person without his or her permission

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Battery

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The intentional touching of a person without his or her consent

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Domestic violence

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Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse of spouses, intimate partners, or family members

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Workplace violence

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Verbal, physical, or sexual abuse of staff by residents or other staff members

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False imprisonment

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The unlawful restraint of someone which affects the person’s freedom of movement; includes both the threat of being physically restrained and actually being physically restrained

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Involuntary seclusion

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The separation of a person from others against the person’s will

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Sexual harassment

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Any unwelcome sexual advance or behavior that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment; includes requests for sexual favors, unwanted touching, and other acts of a sexual nature.

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Substance abuse

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The use of legal or illegal drugs, cigarettes, or alcohol in a way that is harmful to the abuser or to others

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Active neglect

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Actions, or the failure to provide needed care, resulting in harm to a person

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Passive neglect

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The unintentional failure to provide needed care, resulting in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person

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Negligence

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Actions, or the failure to act or provide the proper care, that results in unintended injury or lack of skill

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Mandated reporters

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People who are legally required to report suspected or observed abuse or neglect because they have regular contact with vulnerable populations, such as the elderly in care facilities

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Ombudsman

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The legal advocate for residents; person or persons who help resolve disputes and settle conflicts

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Confidentiality

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The legal and ethical principle of keeping information private

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Protected health information (PHI)

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A person’s private health information, which includes babe, address, telephone number, social security number (SSN), e-mail address, and medical record number

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Advance directives

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Legal documents that allow people to choose what medical care they wish to have is they are unable to make those decisions themselves

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Durable power of attorney for health care

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A signed, dated, and witnessed legal document that appoints someone else to make the medical decisions for a person in the event he or she becomes unable to do so

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Living will

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A document the outlines the medical care a person wants, or does not want, in care he or she becomes unable to make those decisions

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Do-not-resuscitate (DNR)

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A type of advance directive that instructs medical professionals not to perform CPR if a person’s heartbeat or breathing stops

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