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?
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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?
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Capacity, disclosure of information, and voluntariness.- What is decisional capacity?
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A patient's ability to understand, appreciate, and reason through information to make a specific decision.- How does legal competency differ from decisional capacity?
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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.
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personal health information- What federal law sets national standards for protecting patient health information?
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HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).- What is the HIPAA minimum necessary standard?
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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.
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Imminent risk of serious harm to the client or to another identifiable person.- What duty did the Tarasoff case establish for mental health professionals?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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Elderly or dependent adults.- What ethical principle refers to a client's right to self-determination?
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Autonomy.- What ethical principle means "do no harm"?
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Nonmaleficence.- What ethical principle obligates a case manager to act in the client's best interest?
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Beneficence.
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