Healthcare Practice professional, Legal And Ethical Flashcards
HCP in a healthcare team
Medical doctors
Nurses
Allied Health Professionals
Physiotherapist, podiatrist,MSW,Pharmacist, Dietician
Ancillary or Support Staff
-TA ,Lab Assistant,PS Clerk Associate Healthcare Attendants Housekeeping, Facility/Security
Administrative Staff
Medical Social Worker
Clinic Administration Assistant
Facilitates discharge planning refers patient to external resources for finding and community support.
CA provides registration of patients, booking of appointments and payment processes.
Healthcare Assistant
Attending patients’ needs in their activities of daily living ADLs and providing to patient care procedures under the direction of trained nurses and according to established policies, procedures eg assist in Pt’s R&D programmes.
SOP
Standard Operation Procedure Wearing of intacted gloves to stop High infections Areas.
Use intact gloves
Drawing Blood
Starting IV’s or discontinuing I V
Transporting and processing blood
Handling contaminated materials old dressing bedpans these have the potential for contamination.
Accountability
Accountability is about taking responsibility for your actions,always ensuring you are competent to do the activity.
PSA
3 job scopes
Job description (Reflection)
Training and experience to safety perform the task
General supervision or direct personal supervision by therapist
The therapist give you clear instructions what is expected of the task given
The task part of your job scope
Hypocount
1.safety of equipments
Vendors will come down TDs and check
What is the purpose of SOP
SOP can assist employees in dealing with situations that may arise during daily operations of practice eg
Equipment cleaning and maintenance
Safety and emergency procedures
Clinical procedures
Healthcare Worker
Perform the SOP as wear gloves in any healthcare settings
Doing the procedures
1 Drawing blood
2. Starting IV’s or discontinuing IV’s
3. Transporting and processing blood
4. Handling contaminated materials old dressings urinals that have the potential for contamination
Healthcare workers are legally accountable like death of PT
Failure like a health care worker normally expected to do causing a PT harm Cause is called Omission
What is one right of PT medical in healthcare
Right to confidentiality and privacy
PDPAC
Personal Data Protection Act Commission