Confidentiality, informed consent, and ethical decision-making concepts for the certified case manager tested on the CCM exam.
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- What is informed consent in case management?
- A patient's voluntary agreement to a course of action based on full understanding of the relevant facts.
- What are the three key elements required for valid informed consent?
- Capacity, disclosure of information, and voluntariness.
- What is decisional capacity?
- A patient's ability to understand, appreciate, and reason through information to make a specific decision.
- How does legal competency differ from decisional capacity?
- Competency is a legal determination made by a court; capacity is a clinical judgment about a specific decision.
- Confidentiality in case management means protecting a client's ____ from unauthorized disclosure.
- personal health information
- What federal law sets national standards for protecting patient health information?
- HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).
- What is the HIPAA minimum necessary standard?
- Only the minimum amount of protected health information needed to accomplish a task should be used or disclosed.
- Name one common exception to a client's right to confidentiality.
- Imminent risk of serious harm to the client or to another identifiable person.
- What duty did the Tarasoff case establish for mental health professionals?
- A duty to warn or protect an identifiable third party from a client's credible threat of violence.
- What is a Release of Information (ROI) form used for?
- To obtain a client's written authorization to share their protected health information with a specified party.
- What is the difference between confidentiality and privileged communication?
- Confidentiality is an ethical duty to protect information; privilege is a legal right that can be invoked to prevent disclosure in court.
- Besides children, case managers have a legal duty to report suspected abuse of which vulnerable population?
- Elderly or dependent adults.
- What ethical principle refers to a client's right to self-determination?
- Autonomy.
- What ethical principle means "do no harm"?
- Nonmaleficence.
- What ethical principle obligates a case manager to act in the client's best interest?
- Beneficence.