Exam 3 Flashcards
The patient care partnership
It is essentially a patients bill of rights. It encourages high quality care, a clean and safe environment, patient involvement in their care, protection of patient privacy, and help with leaving the hospital as well as billing claims.
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
This act makes it illegal to fire an employee based on pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.
CLIA
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act/Amendments
Provides minimum federal standards for quality laboratory testing.
Employee retirement income security act
Regulates private pension funds and employer benefit programs.
Occupational Safety and Health Act
Ensures a safe work environment
Wagner Act
Protects employees who engage in union or other organizational activities.
Rehabilitation Act
Protects individuals who are disabled or mentally ill.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Established The EEOC
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Protects employees aged 40 or older.
Equal Pay Act
Requires equal pay for equal work
Fair labor standards act
Regulates Child labor and provides for minimum wages and overtime pay.
Social security act
Provides for Medicare, unemployment insurance, disability, and OASI through FICA funding.
Federal False Claims Act
A law that allows for individuals to bring civil actions on behalf of the U.S. Government for false claims made to the federal government, under a provision of the law called qui tam (from Latin meaning to “bring an action for the king and for oneself)
Difference between Child, Elder, and Domestic Abuse
Child abuse is legally required to be reported.
Elder abuse is legally required to be reported.
Domestic abuse is ethically required, It is not required unless a spouse states the injuries were from domestic abuse.
What is released when a patient’s record is requested?
Only the information that is requested. Could be a specific time period, diagnosis, symptom, or body system.
Difference between the FDA and the DEA
The FDA approves food and drugs before they are released, they oversee drug quality and standardization.
The DEA regulates the sale and use of certain drugs at the federal level.
Quid pro quo
“Something for something”
Sexual harassment such as 1) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individuals employment.
2) submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as a basis for employment decisions affecting such individual.
Difference between the 5 different schedules of drugs of the controlled substances act
Schedule 1- No medical use and a high potential for abuse.
Schedule 2- have a high potential for abuse, potentially leading to psychological or physical dependence.
Schedule 3- have a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence. Less potential for abuse than schedule 1 & 2 but more than schedule 4.
Schedule 4- Low potential for abuse and low risk of dependence.
Schedule 5- Lower potential for abuse than schedule 4, limited quantities of narcotics.
Difference between a coroner and medical examiner
A coroner is a public official who investigates unknown or violent deaths, may or may not be a physician.
A medical examiner is a physician who investigates suspicious or unexplained deaths.
Difference between a communicable and a Non-communicable Disease
Communicable diseases are infectious such as tb, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS
Noncommunicable diseases are diseases such as cancer, metabolic disorders in newborns, congenital hypothyroidism, and galactosemia.
Why do we have medical records
- They are required by licensing authorities and provide a format for tracking, documenting, and maintaining a patients communication data, both inside and outside a health care facility
-provide documentation of a patients healthcare from birth-death.
-provides a foundation for managing a patients health care.
-Serve as legal documents in lawsuits.
-They provide clinical data for education, research, statistical tracking, and assessing the quality of healthcare.
What types of medical records are legal ?
EMR’s, EHR’s
How do you correct an error in a patients (paper) medical record?
Draw a line through the incorrect information so its still legible, write in the correct info, sign or initial, date, and time the entry.
If possible, ask another staff to witness the correction.
Why do Communicable and some non-communicable diseases need to be reported?
Communicable diseases can threaten the health and wellbeing of the population if left unchecked, immediate disease control and prevention may be needed.
Noncommunicable diseases sometimes need to be reported to. Allow public health officials to track causes to protect publics health and safety.
