Explain in your own words what is the purpose of the HIPAA privacy rule. Why is HIPAA important within the healthcare field?
Chapter 6: Confidentiality: Ethical and Legal Issues
Answer the questions below by using chapter 6 of your textbook.
1. ____________ is a process for getting permission before conducting a healthcare or human service related intervention on a person, or for disclosing personal information.
☐ Informed consent
☐ Trial and error
☐ Post delay.
☐ Probable cause
2. Informed consent requires that a client understands the information presented, gives consent _____________ and is competent or capable to give consent to receive treatment.
☐ regardless if the client does not want to
☐ by force
☐ voluntarily
☐ none of these apply
3. It is very important to _____________ clients on informed consent.
☐ measure
☐ debate
☐ force
☐ educate
4. Jolene is a family support worker in a small community where the likelihood of running into clients at the grocery store and other local businesses is high. Ethically, Jolene should:
☐ move out of town.
☐ be proactive and discuss with the clients she works with how she would like her to handle chance encounters outside of work environments.
☐ ignore clients at all costs.
☐ none of these apply.
5. It’s important to obtain demographic information and inquire about a client’s ____________ while working with many clients in the HHS field.
☐ fears.
☐ background.
☐ neighbors.
☐ none of these apply.
Chapter 5: Client Rights and Counselor Responsibilities
Answer the questions below by using chapter 5 of your textbook.
6. Clients should be told they have the right to _____________ services at any time.
☐ be forced into
☐ terminate
☐ be not offered
☐ none of these apply.
7. Which of the following statements regarding the parent’s legal right to receive information about his or her child is true?
☐ Parents should never receive information on their children.
☐ Parents should only receive information if the child allows it.
☐ It generally allows the parent to access information from a counselor or a human services worker about the child’s progress in counseling or other services they receive.
☐ None of these apply.
8. In most cases, clients have the right to access and review their _____________.
☐ client records and information.
☐ wish list.
☐ files while comparing them to other client files.
☐ none of these apply.
9. Which of the following is a means of documenting aspects of a client’s treatment or progress and is kept within a client’s file or record?
☐ progress notes.
☐ audit notes.
☐ sample notes.
☐ none of these apply.
10. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) is United States legislation that provides __________ privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information.
☐ data
☐ unique.
☐ clear.
☐ none of these apply.
The importance of Informed Consent
Answer the following questions based on your reading in chapter 5.
11. Explain in your own words what informed consent is.
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12. Explain the purpose of obtaining informed consent from a client.
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13. What would you do if a client refused to give their informed consent?
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14. Describe a situation where it would be appropriate to obtain a client’s informed consent.
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Record Keeping in HHS
Answer the following questions based on your reading in chapter 5.
15. What is the risk of not maintaining confidential clinical records?
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Privacy in the HHS context
Answer the following questions based upon your readings in Chapter 6 and your interactives.
16. Explain in your own words what is the purpose of the HIPAA privacy rule. Why is HIPAA important within the healthcare field?
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