Class 1: Patient interview Flashcards
HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Designed to provide privacy standards to protect patients medical records and other health information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals, and other healthcard providers
Provides patients with access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health information is used and disclosed
HIPAA
Off limits patient identifiers:
- No smaller than state
- No dates
- No numbers whatsoever (medical record, health plan)
- No vehicle info
- No device ID
- no URLs
- No pictures
Patient Chart includes:
- Face sheet (identification sheet)
- admission history
- consent forms
- medication summary
- nurses assessments
- consultation notes
- physician progress notes
- order sheets
- lab reports
- radiology reports
- Op/procedure/anesthesia record
- discharge summary
What includes:
- demographic info
- employment insurance
- responsibility party?
Should be updated every year!
Face sheet aka Identification sheet
What includes:
- Chief complaint
- History of present illness
- past history
- family history
- ROS
Admission history and physicial exam
What includes:
- Name of surgery
- risks and benefits of procedure?
Consent form
What includes:
- psychological and social exam
- physical exam like vital signs
- activities of daily living
- Glasgow coma scale
- pain scales
nursing assessment
- similar to admission H&P notes but done by a subspecialty physician
- asks for input from consulting physician
consultation notes
What includes:
- daily progress and plans of admitted patient
- is presented in SOAP format?
physician’s progress notes
What the patient tells you is what part of SOAP?
Subjective
What is found as part of you physical exam is what part of SOAP?
Objective
Where is the problem list found in SOAP?
Assessment
What are normal blood pressure values?
90/60 - 120/80
What are normal pulse oximetry ranges?
95-100%