...EXPLAIN HOW THE PATIENTS BILL OF RIGHTS APPLIES TO THIS SITUATION. All patients have the right to safe service that respects all of their core values. The purpose of this case analysis is to be able to appropriate the patient bill of rights as it pertains to this situation. The basic rights of human beings, such as concern for personal dignity are always of great importance and the function of patient bill of rights is to help improve patient outcomes by respecting each patient rights and conducting clinical health organization relationship in an ethical manner (Fremgen 2009). The patient bill of rights act was created in 1973 by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and was created to protect the privacy and integrity of patients, doctors and other health care providers (Ehow 1999-2010), this basically means that it is a bill that will help with the communication of skills between all parties to provide best care. Part of the obligation that pertains to the patient bill of rights is that, the patient has the right to be considerate and given a respectful care (Fermgen 2009). The provider has to respect the dignity of the patient by being considerate while giving care, every patient has the right to be informed on any issue that they might be facing unless it is an emergency. In our subsequent discussions in this course, we have discussed basic elements of patient bill of rights and how it applies to consent for treatment and how the patient bill of rights contains several...
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...Explain how the patient Bill of Rights applies to this case: According to [ (The American Cancer Society) ], the patient bill of rights seeks “to help patients feel more confident in the US health care system. The Bill of Rights: assures that the health care system is fair and it works to meet patients' needs, gives patients a way to address any problems they may have, encourage patients to take an active role in staying or getting healthy, stress the importance of a strong relationship between patients and their health care providers, to stress the key role patients play in staying healthy by laying out rights and responsibilities for all patients and health care providers.” The essential goal is to let patients know the treatment options proposed by the medical professional tending to them so that the patient can consent to treatment that they feel is right for them. Under the bill of rights, patients the right to talk privately with health care providers and to have your health care information protected. According to [ (The AGS Foundation for Health in Aging) ], “Except under extraordinary circumstances, you have the legal right to make decisions about your body and your medical care. Ideally, these decisions should be made by capable, informed patients after discussion with their physicians and other health care providers.” Identify and explain at least three ethical considerations: The ethical considerations are that the Nurse Nancy is taking it upon herself to give...
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...terminal cancer patients. In one extreme case, Nurse Nancy feeling empathy for a rapid decline in one of the patient’s health (a 30 year old single mother), want to give an extra dose of narcotic drugs that could potentially end the patient’s life, and what Nurse Nancy perceives as her suffering. Q1. Explain how the Patient Bill of Rights applies to this case. The Patient’s Bill of Rights is the colloquial term for the Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities which was taken up in 1998 by the U.S. Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry. This deals with a number of areas concerning patient rights, including information for patient’s, the right to choose a healthcare provider, access to emergency care, the right to make decision regarding care and the principle of autonomy, respect and non- discrimination, confidentiality at the way in which complaints should be handle fairly. The bill also notes the responsibility of the patients to take care of themselves. When looking at the potential issue of assisted suicide this is a controversial subject, in this case there is a young cancer patient who has declined quickly who may be asking for help in ending their life. It may be argued that this is one of the choice a patient may make in the way that they seek to determine their own treatments; furthermore that allowing fully competent patients to make this decision is respecting autonomy. However, the patient bill of rights does not enshrine...
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...administrative medical assistant deal with problems? 2. Describe why an effective health care worker should be skilled at understanding human behavior. 3. What type of lifestyle is the patient encouraged to develop through the holistic approach to health care? 4. Is it necessary for the administrative medical assistant to be familiar with the abbreviations of medical positions? Why or why not? 5. Why was a Patient’s Bill of Rights developed by the House of Delegates of the American Hospital Association? 6. List the five components of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in order of importance. and many more exam questions….. AH 215 WEEK 4 MIDTERM EXAM To purchase this tutorial visit here: http://mindsblow.us/question_des/AH215WEEK4MIDTERMEXAM/2735 contact us at: help@mindblows.us AH 215 WEEK 4 MIDTERM EXAM 1. Instead of complaining about problems, how should the administrative medical assistant deal with problems? 2. Describe why an effective health care worker should be skilled at understanding human behavior. 3. What type of lifestyle is the patient encouraged to develop through the holistic approach to health care? 4. Is it necessary for the administrative medical assistant to be familiar with the abbreviations of medical positions? Why or why not? 5. Why was a Patient’s Bill of Rights developed by the House of Delegates of the American Hospital Association? 6. List the five components of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in order of importance. and many more exam questions…...
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...Case Study: Oops Is Not An Option Isaacnette Mathurin Devry University 12/03/2014 Introduction Patients private information and private hospital documents are often leaked by internal employees or vendors who work throughout the organization. Each hospital or organization has strict policies and guidelines for which each employee or vendor must abide. Often Times these policies and guidelines are breached due to employees misusing the information for their own personal gain. Not only is this a breach of hospital policy, it is also a violation of the Health Insurance Privacy and Portability Act (HIPPA). So when the HIPPA law is broken different protocols have to come in and the situation has to be dealt with so the hospital will not be reliable for that . Not only is the hospital liable for the patients information being released to a third party without the patients consent it is also a violation of the HIPPA Law. Employees must really have to follow the different policies and protocols that there hospital have. For instance, if you do not know the procedures they have a book that they give to their employees when you are hired on. The information on polices and procedures are included in the employee handbook. The handbook is usually located in Human Resource office ,if you lose the handbook that is given to you at the beginning of employment. However HIPPA policies and procedures are typically posted throughout...
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...Kentucky House Bill 1 Kentucky House Bill 1 is an infringement on our basic civil rights because the Kentucky State Government is now involved with regulating what doctors can and can not prescribe; it denies access to medicine for lower socio-economic level patients, illegal, and legal substitutes will replace prescription medications and random urine tests and pill counts make patients guilty until proven innocent. The goal of this piece of legislation is to address the prescription drug abuse problem by limiting the availability of certain controlled substances through increased regulation and oversight. In order to uphold this Bill many people will have to give up their basic rights so that Kentucky Law Enforcement can crack down on any suspicious activity within the Commonwealth of Kentucky. One of the most important rights we have as Americans is our right to doctor patient confidentiality. The doctor patient confidentiality agreement was set in place so doctors could treat their patients as they see fit. Kentucky State Legislators do not believe that doctors are doing everything in their power to help stem the drug problem that has been killing people here for over 20 years. So their answer was KASPER, “Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting” system. This system was designed to track prescribed controlled substances and doctor visits. For example, if you were to feel extreme back pain you would go to your doctor, and he/she would write up a prescription...
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...billing. The ten step process consist of patient preregister, establish financial responsibility for visits, check in patients, check out patients, review coding compliance, check billing compliance, prepare and transmit claims, monitor payer adjudication, generate patient statements and follow up patient payments and handle collections. These steps are under three categories these categories are visit, claim and post-claim; throughout this paper I will explain each of these ten steps. The first category is visit; step one of visit is preregister patients. This step usually involves the clerks at the front desk or nurses depending on the size and location of the health center. The clerks are responsible for checking in patients, scheduling appointments and making appointment reminder calls. The clerks are also responsible for collecting the patient personal and payer information. Step two is establishing financial responsibility for the health visit. This step is where the clerks will collect the payer insurance information, set up a payment plan, and let the nurses and doctors know what is covered by the insurance company such as treatments, testing and medications. If the patient does not have medical insurance then the clerks need to determine if the patient needs to be on a payment plan or if they can pay for the service in one payment. Most health facilities require the patient show proof of who is responsible for the bill for the service they are going to receive...
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...Kaiser Permanente Cultural Competency The aim of this case study is to show how beneficial the bill AB 1195 was on Kaiser Permanente. Before the bill, healthcare companies faced difficulties with communications with patients since they lacked cultural awareness and proper training, after its passing, healthcare companies required providers to undergo training in the field of cultural awareness to overcome those barriers. The Overview of Cultural Competency in Healthcare Cultural Competency in the career of healthcare has the approach of delivering high quality care to patients who have diverse backgrounds, different ethical values, and beliefs. This practice requires training that can be used to personalize health care based on cultural and...
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...medical treatment. Euthanasia is not legalized in many places. When it comes to the debate of Euthanasia, there are more arguments on why it should be legalized than why it should stay illegal. There’s no doubt about it that constant medical bills are beyond expensive. The cost of the accessories, medicines, and machines that are needed to keep an individual alive are pricey. In 2009 an article said that 60% of people who go bankrupt are troubled by medical bills. (Tamkins, 2009) In 2007 another article explains that 72 million working-age Americans are paying off medical debt or have medical bill problems. If the number of elderly adults that deal with the same issues are included, then the total rises to 79 million. (Gonzalez, 2012) Years of everlasting medical bills and useless treatments will leave debt to the patient, family, and loved ones. That is money no one cannot afford to lose. There is no need to pay to perpetuate a life of a patient that has no chance of getting better and or living a regular life again. There is no need to pay to prolong a life of a patient that wants to die. There is no need in paying a colossal amount of money every day to suffer. Euthanasia is the solution yet again. Euthanasia will diminish the constant bills. Euthanasia will free the medical funds. Death is one of the hardest things humans have to deal with. It is tough and scary to think about losing a loved one, family and or friends. It is horrendous to even witness someone in excruciating...
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...The nursing staff has expressed burnout because of an increase of terminal cancer patients. In one extreme case, Nurse Nancy, feeling empathy for a rapid decline in one of the patient’s health (a 30-year-old single mother), wants to give an extra dose of narcotic that could potentially end the patient’s life – and what Nurse Nancy perceives as her suffering. Needless to say, concepts including end-of-life rights, death with dignity and right to life apply to this particular case. In examining this particular case, we’ll find that the nurse is trying to act with the purest of motives. However, what she is doing could skirt ethical decision-making, while being blatantly against the law. Additionally, it could provide a negative view of the cancer center. Though many people might support the idea of dying with dignity, others might take a dim view of a nurse who, in her zeal to prevent a patient’s suffering, would deprive children of their mother. Patient Bill of Rights The Patient Bill of Rights, sponsored by Senators John McCain, John Edwards and Ted Kennedy (S.1052), guarantees patients the right to access to health care specialists when necessary and requires continuity of care protections to patients so they don’t have to change health care providers in the middle of their treatment (Summary, 2001). The bill, unfortunately, failed, but many of its requirements make sense. For the patients of this particular cancer center, it means their treatment wouldn’t be interrupted...
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...NEWMAN UNIVERSITY BSN PROGRAM NSG 4092 SENIOR SEMINAR Political Advocacy Assignment FORM Name:_Kelsey Stone_________________________ Bill Origin: House_______ Senate__X_____ ATTACH A COPY OF THE FULL-LENGTH BILL TO THIS SHEET. Target population: The target population is persons with debilitating medical conditions. This bill would provide for the legal use of cannabis for certain debilitating medical conditions and protection amongst healthcare providers from arrest and persecution for prescribing their patients access to cannabis. The bill would also allow “qualifying patients” that meet certain criteria, a medical card, to access cannabis sold at a compassion center. The purpose of this act is to protect patients with debilitating medical conditions, as well as their practitioners and providers, from arrest and prosecution, criminal and other penalties, and property forfeiture if such patients engage in the medical use of cannabis. Summarize the Bill: The bill will force the law to make a distinction between the medical and recreational uses of cannabis. It will protect patients with debilitating medical conditions, as well as their practitioners and providers, from arrest and...
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...to produce evidence based, patient centred study which will critically analyse the management of a significant aspect of care in relation to a patient. The chosen aspect of care this assignment will analyse is pain. This assignment will reflect perspectives of the NMC (2014) Standards which will be critically applied to the patient centred study. The critical appraisal will be supported with relevant theory and evidence relating to each of the standards, giving illustrative examples from each. Introduction to the Patient and the context of care This patient centred study will focus on one specific aspect of care and demonstrate how the NMC domains are an integral part of that care provided. For the...
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...The Feeding Tube 1. Explain how the Patient Bill of Rights applies to this situation. The patients of the country in the United States are provided a particular right. This right is called the Patient Bill of Rights (Kronenfeld, 2002). The Patient Bill of Rights has a significant impact and is essential for the people who are in the health care organization for the purpose of getting treatment properly and easily. In this scenario, June is suffering from anorexia and the doctors feel she may need to be placed on a feeding tube to save her life. June agreed to the procedure but became combative, disoriented and refused to have the tube place the evening before the procedure was to take place. The patient bill of rights applies, as the patient has a right to know what treatment options are available to one and what the possible outcomes may be. The patient has a right to decide one’s medical care. One also has a right to know of any side effects of treatments. June needs to be told what may happen without the feeding tube and what can be expected with the feeding tube. June also has a right to have her health information kept confidential, with information given only to those she designates as being allowed to have her health information (Showalter, 2008). It is noted that in the absence of a progressive terminal disease, the feeding tube may be used to prolong life and since the patient is not dying of another cause, discontinuing the feeding tube would imply a desire to cause...
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...what we tend to hear more about is how nurses are abusing patients, those being patients that are older, disabled and coming closer to the end of their life span. Patients sometimes receive such negative abuse from nurses, this consists of physical abuse which is defined as any action with the intention to cause any physical or bodily harm to someone; for example this would include a nurse hitting or slapping a patient or even pushing them around. You often hear about nurses neglecting their patients, this is a deliberate action where nurses deprive the patients of what they need, this includes a nurse that purposely withholds a patient from eating, drinking or giving them their medication ("Abuse in Canada's Nursing Homes", 2012). It’s quite sad to see how this action takes place in nursing homes; a nursing home is a place for the elderly to go to because they can no longer take care of themselves and they need the assistance in their day to day activities. The nurses in long-term care facilities are there to provide residents with the care that they need and require, as they cannot do it themselves. Patients will often receive mental abuse from staff, that is, an act with the intention to cause any emotional harm to someone ("Abuse in Canada's Nursing Homes", 2012). You often hear about nurses yelling or threatening patients; this seems hard to understand why they would do such a horrible act of violence towards patients, the elderly are usually very soft-spoken and kind hearted...
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...Part I:Describe the three advance directives available for patients. When are they appropriate? How is an advanced directive put into place? Part II:What is a "Patient's Bill of Rights"? After reading “A Patient's Bill of Rights” on p. 101 of your text, describe what responsibilities physicians and other healthcare providers have in reporting suspected abuse. Should physicians have the right to select the patients they wish to treat? Why or why not? In one to two paragraphs, summarize the laws. 2. Share your opinion of whether or not it would ever be ethical to override an advance directive. Be sure to consider advance directives laws and The Patient Bill of Rights. The advanced directives law in Ohio includes the Living Will, Power of Attorney, and a DNR order. A living will is a document expressing the wishes of the owner in the case that they cannot make decisions for themselves. It decides medical decisions involving certain medical treatment and surgeries related to the patient. A power of attorney is the reliable person that the patient would chose to make their medical decisions in the case that they were medically unable to. This would only come into play if the patient is ill and cannot make medical decisions on their own. Otherwise the patient would still make their own decisions. A DNR order, do not resuscitate, is used when a patient wishes to not be resuscitated in the event that it is needed. This order must be signed by two witnesses and a physician in...
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