Final Exam Flashcards
Principle of participation:
As an employee, have the right to have a say in those things that directly affect you.
Principle of efficiency:
Can provide the basis for benefitting ALL. Meet multiple needs with multiple services.
Healthcare organizations are driven by: (3)
Medical Model
Financial Incentives
Professionalism
Two types of peer evaluation
Peer Review
Whistleblowing
Confidential information can come from (3)
Patient (directly)
Records
Third Party
HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Joint commission:
Not-for-profit organization that accredits health care facilities
Covering at the shift changeover, covering for vacation schedules.
Hand Offs
Battery
Touching another without their consent.
Intent does not matter - only perception
Two names associated with patient competence.
Applebaum and Grisso
4 aspects of competence.
Ability to…
Communicate Choices
Understand Information
Appreciate the Situation and Consequences
Reason about Treatment Options
The patients ability to understand and weigh medical information to make health decisions.
Capacity
Two forms of incompetence
Never Competent
Once Competent
Never Competent:
Newborns
Mentally impaired from birth
Once Competent:
Were competent once, but no longer are (dementia, brain damage)
