HLHS 105 Statewide Final Exam Study Guide PDF

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HLHS 105 Final Study Guide 1. What is forensic testing? used in law enforcement to eliminate or designate suspect in a crime. 2. What are right-to-know laws? What does this law cover? allows employees to access information about toxic or hazardous substance, employee duties, employee rights, and other health and or safety information. Covered by OSHA 3. What does the Good Samaritan Act protect healthcare professionals from? People giving care or helping someone in an emergency. If injuries are made by that person or health care provider then the victim can not file a law suite. 4. What does the Federal Child Abuse Amendment legally allow physicians to do? It allows Physicians to withhold treatment, if parents agree, including food and water, for some infants who are chronically and irreversibly comatose, will most certainly die and for whom treatment is considered futile, and or would suffer inhumanely 5. Today there has been an increase in personalized medicine. What development provided for this increase? Due to each person is genetically unique, statistical averages are not helpful in determining medical treatment. 6. Know who the stakeholders are in health care services and which is the first in the list. The public Employers Health care facilities and practitioners Federal, state, and local gov. Managed care org. Private insurers Medical schools Medical and pharmaceutical researchers 7. The Kaiser Foundation created a report called “Our Vision for the Future of Health Care”. What did this report say about medical records? Medical records should be electronically available -- no more paper records. 8. Know what types of questions that employers may and may not ask job applicants. Employers can't ask about race, religion, gender, and basically anything personal. They can ask for your social security, qualifications for the job, and for a physical exam. 9. Why do state and federal governments collect vital statistics? Used for educational institutions, governmental agencies, research scientists, private industry. Allows for tracking population. 10. What behaviors are signs of abuse? Attempting to hide injury, anxiety, depression, changes in appetite, and unreasonable explanations for injuries, 11. What was the first state that passed a law called Death with Dignity Act? What did this Act allow? Oregon- to permit physician- assisted suicide in certain circumstances. 12. What can be said about health information technology compared to other business technology? Application of information processing, involving both computer hardware and software, that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of healthcare information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision making. 13. What widespread condition has been related to developing diabetes in the United States? obesity 14. What are the criteria for death according to the Uniform Determination of Death Act? Brain dead; circulatory and respiratory systems cease to function as well as whole brain not being functional. Also, no breathing, no pupil response

15. What types of evidence can be used in termination of just cause, if a wrongful discharge lawsuit is filed? Orally, written contract, or company handbook 16. What is the difference between a mature minor and an emancipated minor? What rights do they have? Mature minor are in mid or late teens who legally live outside of parental or guardian control. Emancipated minors who are also around the same age but they live outside of parental or guardian control but also got approved through the judicial system. They needs to be self supporting legally married serving in the armed forces. 17. What are the primary responsibilities of the Office of the Inspector General? Finding billing fraud. 18. Is there a difference between an EMR and EHR? an EMR is not an overall health history record like the EHR is. 19. Which types of patients cannot give informed consent? Minors, mentally incompetent, and people who don't speak English 20. What types of data are physicians legally required to report? Abuse, reportable diseases, Neglect, Rape. 21. Which agency registers physicians for the writing of prescriptions? DEA Define the following terms. Be able to identify an example of what it is, what it is not, and any recommended healthcare provider actions related to the term. HIPPA-know it inside and out Doctrine of paren patriage MSDS OSHA Regulations Acting for “the common good” Hazard Communication Standard Grief Rational Drug Design Safe Haven Law Bloodborne Pathogen Standard

Infertility & different types of treatment Adoption-types and requirements Autopsy Palliative Care Meaningful use as related to EHR Attitudes on death Advanced Directives Types of euthanasia Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act of 2010 Wrongful Discharge...