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(HIPPA)

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

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HIPPA intended for…

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provide individuals with preexisting medical conditions, who might otherwise be denied health care coverage outright, affordable access to health insurance

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improper sharing of health information could reveal

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existence of health conditions that could result in the denial of individual or employer-sponsored health coverage.

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health care agenda item on the Obama presidential campaign.

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

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ACA requires every…

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American have minimum essential health insurance beginning in 2013.

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Medicine was the first …

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profession to have a legally defined scope of practice

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patients have a right to be involved in decisions about their health care.

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consent

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which is the purposeful, unwelcome, harmful touching of another.

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battery

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individuals who based on their relationship to the patient would be given priority to consent on the patient’s behalf

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statutory surrogates

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Advance Directives include…

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o living wills,
o medical power of attorney for health care decisions, and
o prehospital do not resuscitate orders

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the physician-patient relationship is traditionally seen as a special relationship that gives

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rise to duty

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incentive

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may be in terms of a fine that is paid if something is done that the law has proscribed

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The Tenth Amendment includes…..

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the power to license professionals, provide and regulate public education, and provide for public health and safety

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the primary federal regulatory agency

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U.S. Department of health and human services

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The judicial branch is expected to make a decision or establish a rule, creating what is known as

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case law

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the five issues in theory that lead to understanding health care law

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oversight of the QUALITY of health care,
control of the COST of health care,
assurance of EQUALITY access to health care . . . PROTECTION of the person of the patient . . . [and]
the STRUCTURE of business relationships among the institutions and professionals that provide health care

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tort law

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is the basis for quality health care and cost control

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constitutional law

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ensures equitable access and protection of the patient;

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individual states regulate…

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licensing, scope of practice, and discipline of nurses

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Interrelated Concepts

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  • Health policy
  • Ethics
  • Health Care economics
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Common Exemplars

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  • Nurse Practice Act
  • Liability
  • Standards of Practice
  • Obligation to Report
  • HIPAA
  • Advance directives
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Malpractice has Four elements that must be satisfied:

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duty, breach, causation, and harm

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malpractice

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is the failure to follow the standard of care

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Employer/Employee Liability

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Vicarious liability

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Vicarious liability/Employer/Employee Liability

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Employer liable for the acts of its employee if the employee was acting as an agent of the employer and the actions resulted in injury within that scope of employment

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The Social Security Act of 1965

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amended the existing Social Security law and created two major health care programs: Medicaid and Medicare