Lesson 2 - Standards, practices, law, & ethics in healthcare Flashcards
What does HIPAA stand for?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What does PHI stand for?
Patient Health Information
True or false: HIPAA protects patient healthcare information.
True.
True or false: you never place the telephone on hold when researching a patient’s healthcare information.
False
True or false: it is perfectly acceptable to leave patient healthcare information on the patient’s answering machine without their signed authorization.
False.
Informed consent means that the patient must __________.
a. Be given adequate information about the procedure
b. Sign a formal document giving consent
c. Be given a copy of all their pertinent medical records
d. Have a third-party witness attest to the consent
a. Be given adequate information about the procedure
What document guides an organization’s moral duties and obligations?
a. Code of Ethics
b. Patient’s Bill of Rights
c. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
d. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
a. Code of Ethics
An Advance Beneficiary Notice puts the financial liability of healthcare on the __________.
a. Insurance company
b. Hospital
c. Physician
d. Patient
d. Patient
The organization that develops and implements standard procedures for the laboratory is __________.
a. CLSI
b. HHS
c. OSHA
d. HIPAA
a. CLSI
If using a blood pressure cuff as a tourniquet to draw blood, to what pressure must the cuff be inflated?
a. Just below the patient’s systolic pressure
b. Just above the patient’s systolic pressure
c. Just below the patient’s diastolic pressure
d. Just above the patient’s diastolic pressure
c. Just below the patient’s diastolic pressure
Upon entering a patient’s room for a venipuncture, you notice she is not wearing an ID band. The band is on the table next to her. Which is the best course of action?
a. Ask the patient to place the band on her wrist then draw the patient if the requisition matches
b. Draw the patient if the band on the table matches the requisition
c. Ask the patient’s nurse to ID the patient then draw the patient if the requisition matches
d. Refuse to draw a patient without an ID band on her wrist
c. Ask the patient’s nurse to ID the patient then draw the patient if the requisition matches
Which of the following is typically an acceptable site from which to draw blood?
a. Arm opposite a mastectomy
b. Arm with edematous
c. Arm with an inflamed tattoo
d. Arm with scarring
a. Arm opposite a mastectomy
Under HIPAA, PHI stands for __________.
a. Psychotherapy Health Information
b. Public Health Information
c. Prohibited Health Information
d. Protected Health Information
d. Protected Health Information
The acronym HIPAA stands for __________.
a. Health Insurance Promise and Accuracy Act
b. Human Information Portability and Ambulatory Act
c. Healthcare Improvement Promise and Accountability Act
d. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
d. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Which of the following is a potential penalty for a HIPAA violation?
a. Monetary fine
b. Imprisonment
c. Termination of employment
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
