| A | B |
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| Professional Standards | Following these at all times helps ensure that you, your employer and the patient are all protected. |
| Living Wills | Documents that allow individuals to state what should or shouldn't occur to prolong their life. |
| DNR | Do Not Resuscitate |
| POA | Power of Attorney |
| Advance Directives | Documents that allow individuals to state what medical treatement they want or do not want in the event they become incapacitated. |
| Resident's Bill of Rights | Posted in facility's: states that the resident has free choice, freedom from abuse, pirvacy and confidentiality, etc. |
| Patient's rights | The factor's of care that patients can expect to receive |
| Ethics | a set of principles relating to what is morally right and wrong. provides a standard of conduct of behavior. |
| confidentiality | maintaining patient information privately. |
| HIPPAA | A privacy act that affects the confidentiality of healthcare records |
| Healthcare Records | Contain information about the care provided to a patient. |
| Privileged communications | communications between healthcare members of a patient's healthcare team |
| implied contracts | those obligations that are understood without verbally expressed terms (a patient takes the medication the nurse hands him) |
| expressed contracts | stated in language either verbally or in writing, (surgery permission) |
| contract | an agreement between two or more parties |
