Details
In this 1 hour course, you will learn all about your client's rights, HIPAA, and you duties in protecting those rights.
After completing this lesson, the student will be able to: protect the clients’ rights; understand HIPAA and confidentiality; work with an Ombudsman; and understand how restraints violate clients’ rights. The student will realize the personal and emotional commitment required of a caregiver and understand HIPAA requirements as well as the Client’s Bill of Rights, and how each of those rights impact the actions of the caregiver.
Course Outline
- Understanding Clients Rights
- Understanding rights and steps to protect rights in everyday work.
- Right to be treated with dignity and respect.
- Right to be free from misuse of personal property.
- Right to make informed choices about services, including right to refuse service.
- Right to privacy and maintenance of confidentiality
- Right to voice grievances and complaints without reprisal.
- Right to freedom from discrimination.
- Right to participate in planning of care.
- Right to access to records.
- Right to be advised of payments for services prior to service start.
- Right to notice of termination.
- Right to copy of rights.
- Right to freedom from abuse, mistreatment, and neglect
- Right to be free from restraints.
- HIPAA and client confidentiality.
- Role of the Ombudsman.
- The importance of personal belongings.
- Freedom from abuse means freedom from neglect, too.
- Understanding restraints.
Instructor
Sharon K. Brothers, MSW
Sharon Brothers has been involved in education, writing, management and consulting for a wide range of care-related programs and services. She is currently CEO of the Institute for Professional Care Education (IPCed) which encompasses the brands: aQuire Training Solutions, Medifecta, CarePro and EasyCEU. Sharon received her Masters degree in Social Work from the University of British Columbia in 1980 and has since spent her professional career in the health care industry, developing and operating four assisted living communities for over 18 years. Sharon's leadership of the IPCed team is based on the concept of building a company that prepares the next generation to provide care to seniors, using the very best practices in e-learning and technology.