Y1 M3 Flashcards
When can you use personal information without consent?
• where permitted or required by law
• for planning, managing and delivering services that you provide or fund (including resource allocation, evaluation, monitoring and preventing fraud)
• for risk and error management, or quality assurance
• to seek consent (in this case you must use only their name and contact information)
• to dispose of or de-identify the information
• for research conducted by a service provider, subject to certain requirements (CYFSA, Section 5)
• for a proceeding (or contemplated proceeding) where the service provider is or is expected to be a party or witness and the information relates to a matter at issue
• if you believe on reasonable grounds that the use is reasonably necessary to assess, reduce or eliminate a risk of serious harm to a person or group
The practitioner demonstrates ethical behaviour by:
respecting a client’s informed choice
being respectful to others
maintaining confidentiality
respecting and promoting client well-being.
A practitioner demonstrates ethical behaviour by:
acting with integrity, honesty and professionalism, and, exploring their personal beliefs and values
patient well-being, respect for life, maintaining commitments, truthfulness, fairness are all ______ values.
Ethical
The belief that the rightness or wrongness of an action depends on the outcome or consequence the action produces.
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism stands if right actions cause the…..
“greatest amount of happiness altogether”
an action is right, good and appropriate or correct if and only if that action comes from duty. Right or wrong should never depend on the consequences of an action, rather on our obligation to fulfill our duty. Intentions play a very important role in decision making about right and wrong.
Kantianism aka Deontology
beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy and justice to resolve ethical dilemmas are the key principles of _______
Principlism
T/F
The obligation to obtain informed consent does not always have to come from the practitioner who is to carry out the treatment regime.
False.
The obligation to obtain informed consent must always be from the practitioner who is to carry out the treatment regime.
How would you best describe implied consent?
pt makes appointment, keeps appt, volunteers a history, answers questions relating to the history and to submit without objection to physical exam. Consent is clearly implied.
How would you best describe expressed consent?
may be oral or written and should be obtained when the treatment is likely to be more than mildly painful, when it carries risk or when it will result in ablation of a bodily function, it sould be obtained in written form.
T/F
Age of consent is based on age.
False.
Age of consent for medical treatment: maturity has replaced chronological age. The determinant of capacity in a minor has become the extent to which the young person’s physical, mental, and emotional development will allow for a full appreciation of the nature and consequences of the proposed treatment, including the refusal of such treatments.
What are the 3 limits on when and how much personal information you can collect, use, or disclose.
- You must ensure, to the best of your knowledge, that the collection, use, or disclosure is necessary for a lawful purpose.
- You must only collect, use or disclose as much personal information as is reasonably necessary to provide a service.
- You must not collect, use, or disclose personal information where non-personal information will serve the same purpose.
** These limitations do not apply to personal information that you are required by law to collect, use or disclose.
T/F
Explicit consent can be inferred based on the individuals actions and the facts of a particular situation.
False.
Explicit consent – consent that is more than just implied. May be stated explicitly, either verbally or in writing.
This principle applies when the intention of treatment or care is to benefit the patient, but the result of treatment is unexpected harm.
The double effect
