Professional Responsibilities Flashcards
Elder Justice Act
Addresses/prevents abuse (physical, emotional, sexual, financial, neglect, abandonment)
Types of financial abuse
Financial neglect
Financial exploitation
Healthcare fraud
Financial neglect
Ignoring person’s financial responsibilities i.e mortgage insurance bills
Financial exploitation
Misuse/mismanagement of property/assets under false pretenses, w.o consent, with intimidation
Signs of abuse
Withdrawn, agitation, trauma response (rocking back and forth), scars, cuts, marks, preventable conditions (uti, dehydration, pressure ulcers), living conditions, financial loss, matting of hair or poor dental hygiene
Investigative Agencies
APS
Long term Care Ombudsment: advocates needs of residents in AL/LTC
National Center of Elder Abuse: how to report abuse, where to get help, state laws
Long term effects of Abuse
Early death
Decreased social/family ties
Financial loss
Depression
Tx small group and counseling
5 sections of ADA
Employment
State and local governments
Public transportation
Businesses open to public
Telecommunications
ADA Employment
Applies to companies with 15+ employees, equal opportunity to benefit from employment opportunities
ADA state and local governments
Education, transportation, recreation, healthcare, social services, courts, voting, emergency services, town meetings
Focuses on equality and integration
ADA exceptions to integration
Different treatment needed for person to participate
If it fundamentally alters nature of activity
ADA Business open to public
Built environment: weighs accessibility vs financial restraints
Readily achievable barrier removal = easily accomplished without difficulty or expense
Resident Rights
- Treatment with respect/dignity (make own schedule)
- Participate in activities
- Free of discrimination
- Free of abuse/neglect
- Free from restraints (side rails, chemical for staff convenience)
- Make conplaints
- Proper medical: informed in language you understand
- Participate in decisions
- Access your record or your legal guardian access records
- Make complaints about tx
- Representatives notified of changes accidents or transfers
- Info on services/fees
- Manage your money
- Privacy and proper living arrangements
- Spend time with visitors
- Access to social services: counseling, problem solving, d/c planning
- To leave or move out
- Unfair d/c’s: cannot make you leave when you are waiting for medicaid, need 30 days notice of plan and reason of transfers
- Participate in groups
- Have family/friends involved
Exceptions to d/c
D/c for health and safety of person or others
Health improved
Nursing home hasnt been paid
Nursing home closes
AOTA Code of Ethics: Core Values
Altruism, equality, freedom, justice, dignity, truth, prudence
AOTA Code of Ethics: Principles
- Beneficence: concern for well-being
- Non-maleficence: do bo harm
- Autonomy
- Justice
- Veracity: objective accurate info when representing profession
- Principle/fidelity: respect, integrity, fairness, discretion
PDPM
Patient driven payment model: determined by pt characteristics rather than minutes
Payment=primary reason for admission (dx) + MDS assessment (section GG)
25% limit for group/concurrent per discipline, clinician judgement for mode of intervention
Concurrent treatment
See 2 pt’s together, interventions different for each client, not used for novel intervention, but for mastering skill
Group treatment
Skilled and medically necessary, intervention should be the same or similar
PDGM
Patient driven group model (2020), pt characteristic determine payment vs # of tx
PDGM Groups
12, based on dx, clinical characteristics, admission source, episode timing, functional impairment determined by OASIS (outcome and assessment information set) M1800s, comorbidity adjustment
Document ICD of comorbidity you are treatinf
OASIS
Cannot be initiated by OT, outcome and assessment information set, OT can contribute within 5 days of completing, OT educate other disciplines on assessing self-care
M1800S. Of OASIS
Grooming, UBD, LBD, bathing, toileting t/f,, t/f, ambulation/locomotion, risk of rehospitalization
Medicare Home Health Flexibility Act
Not signed yet but would allow OTs to start OASIS on therapy only cases
Civil Money Penalty
Grants available to skilled nursing home for training, tech to increase quality of care, finances through fine due to noncompliance with govt reg