Imagine some of the issues that may require you, as a health care professional, to recall information in the Patient’s Bill of Rights and use it as the basis for your actions.For this assignment, you will post: What you would do if faced with the scenarios below. Include the following three items in your posting. I would suggest numbering your answer to make sure you have included everything. ITEMS: 1. Which component/s of the Patient’s Bill of Rights addresses the scenario? Write them out. 2. Write what you would say to the patient and/ or do for the patient in this situation, and why. 3. After you care for the patients, what could you suggest to the managers about facility policy or procedure to prevent this same issue from repeating over and over. A surgical technical at a WA State hospital exposed patient to hepatitis and HIV when he used surgical syringes for administering drugs to himself and then returned the used syringes to surgical supply. What do you think and or do taking the AHA Patient’s Bill of Rights into consideration? IN YOUR ANSWERS: 1. State any additional ideas or thoughts you may have related to the situation. 2. State any additional suggestions you may have related to changing the facility policy or procedure.
Patients bill of rights include the following :-
> The right to receive proper medical care
You have the right to receive professional and quality health care and to be treated with respect and consideration, without any discrimination on grounds of religion, race, gender, nationality, country of origin, sexual orientation and so on.
If you came to the emergency room, it is your right to be examined by a doctor.
> Identity of care-provider
You have the right to know the name and position of any healthcare team member providing your care, and care- providers must identify themself, and carry clear identification tag.
> Consent for medical treatment
You have the right to receive an appropriate and clear explanation about your medical condition, about treatment options that are available for you and their alternatives, risks, prospects and potential side effects, including those relating to refraining from treatment. It is important that you will provide the care provider with information about your medical history, so that the diagnosis and treatment offered to you will be appropriate.
You have the right to refuse treatment to which you did not give consent (except for exceptional cases prescribed by law).
You have the right to appoint a proxy, who will have the authority to consent to medical treatment in the event that you become unable to do so.
> Maintaining the dignity and privacy
You have the right that all care providers and all employees of the medical institution will retain your dignity and privacy at all stages of treatment. In certain medical examinations, you have the right to have additional person in the room, at your request.
> Medical confidentiality
You have the right to keep the confidentiality of your medical information, and care providers must ensure the confidentiality of medical information relating to you and to your treatment which they received due to their positions.
> Disclosing of medical information
You have the right that medical information about you will be disclosed only with your consent, or where by law it is permitted or not required.
> Second opinion
You have the right to initiate receiving a second medical opinion (from a care provider within or outside the medical institution) about your condition and the recommended treatment. The medical staff at the institution has the obligation to assist you.
> Continuity of care
In transition between care providers or between medical institutions, you have the right to request that care providers and medical institutions will cooperate in order to ensure your continued proper medical care.
> Receiving visitors
During hospitalization, you have the right to receive visitors during visiting hours designated to this purpose by the hospital administration.
> Receiving medical information
You have the right to receive from the care provider or medical institution, medical information contained in your medical records, or a copy of the medical record (receiving a copy of the record may be subject to a fee).
At the time of your release, you have the right to receive a summary of the course of treatment or hospitalization, in writing.
> Public Inquiries
You have the right to contact the person responsible for public inquiries and rights of patients at the medical institution in any comment, complaint, question or recommendation.
You have the right to receive findings and conclusions of the investigation of your complaint.
1. The scenario is a case of tort . The surgical technical person is using the syringes for himself and sending them back to the surgical store for further use . Disposables items can be used only once and it's against the universal precautions and practice . Because of which he has exposed the patient to hepatitis and HIV . This might be the ongoing process going on in the hospital as a part of corruption .
2 .Strict actions must be taken against him for his act , should be terminated and punished by cancellation of his licence , and a fine for certain amount to the patient should be paid by him for the treatment purpose .
Imagine some of the issues that may require you, as a health care professional, to recall...
Patient’s Bill of Rights Imagine some of the issues that may require you, as a health care professional, to recall information in the Patient’s Bill of Rights and use it as the basis for your actions.For this assignment, you will post: What you would do if faced with the scenarios below. Include the following three items in your posting. I would suggest numbering your answer to make sure you have included everything. ITEMS: 1. Which component/s of the Patient’s Bill...
Patient’s Bill of Rights Imagine some of the issues that may require you, as a health care professional, to recall information in the Patient’s Bill of Rights and use it as the basis for your actions.For this assignment, you will post: What you would do if faced with the scenarios below. Include the following three items in your posting. I would suggest numbering your answer to make sure you have included everything. ITEMS: 1. Which component/s of the Patient’s Bill...
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