Chapter 3 Flashcards
Ethics
The knowledge of right and wrong
Laws
Rules set by the government to help people live peacefully together and to ensure order and safely
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)
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
Minimum Data Set (MDS)
A detailed form with guidelines for assessing residents in long-term care facilities; also details what to do if resident problems are identified
Residents’ Rights
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.
Informed consent
The process in which a person, weird the help of a doctor, makes informed decisions about his or her health care
Abuse
Purposeful mistreatment that causes physical, mental, or emotional pain or injury to someone
Neglect
Harming a person physically, mentally or emotionally by falling to provide needed care
Malpractice
Injury to a person due to professional misconduct through negligence, carelessness, or lack of skill.
Physical abuse
Any treatment, intentional or not, that causes harm to a person’s body
Psychological abuse
Emotional harm caused by threatening, scaring, humiliating, intimidation, isolating, or insulting a person, or by treating him as a child; also includes verbal abuse.
Verbal abuse
The use of spoken or worn wigs, pictures, or gestures that threaten, embarrass, or insult a person
Sexual abuse
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
Financial abuse
The act of stealing, taking advantage of, or improperly using the money, property, or other assets of another person
Assault
The act of threatening to touch a person without his or her permission
Battery
The intentional touching of a person without his or her consent
Domestic violence
Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse of spouses, intimate partners, or family members
Workplace violence
Verbal, physical, or sexual abuse of staff by residents or other staff members
False imprisonment
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
Involuntary seclusion
The separation of a person from others against the person’s will
Sexual harassment
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.
Substance abuse
The use of legal or illegal drugs, cigarettes, or alcohol in a way that is harmful to the abuser or to others
Active neglect
Actions, or the failure to provide needed care, resulting in harm to a person
Passive neglect
The unintentional failure to provide needed care, resulting in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person
Negligence
Actions, or the failure to act or provide the proper care, that results in unintended injury or lack of skill
Mandated reporters
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
Ombudsman
The legal advocate for residents; person or persons who help resolve disputes and settle conflicts
Confidentiality
The legal and ethical principle of keeping information private
Protected health information (PHI)
A person’s private health information, which includes babe, address, telephone number, social security number (SSN), e-mail address, and medical record number
Advance directives
Legal documents that allow people to choose what medical care they wish to have is they are unable to make those decisions themselves
Durable power of attorney for health care
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
Living will
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
Do-not-resuscitate (DNR)
A type of advance directive that instructs medical professionals not to perform CPR if a person’s heartbeat or breathing stops
