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| Information in Health Records Must be kept in the following manner: |
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Easily Retrievable
Kept in an orderly manner
complete
legible
accurate
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| A more specific account of the chief complaint including time frames and characteristics. |
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| Description of the symptoms that led the patient to seek care. |
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| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. |
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| are commonly used to gather information from the patient BEFORE the visit. |
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| Designed to limit the need for long hand written care notes |
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| are written statemnts about various aspects of patient care |
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| If it wasn't documented it wasn't done |
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| Insurance that Employers are required by law to carry for employees that are injured on the job... must start a new chart for every workman's comp file |
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| Classification of Health Records |
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| is the commitment and plan to improve every part of an organization. |
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| is an internal process geared to identifying potential problems before they cause injury to patients or employees |
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Incident Reports sometimes referred to as occurrence reports, are written accounts of untoward (negative)
patient, vistor, or staff events. |
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| Is a long and arduous process, which takes anywhere from 7 to 12 years and sometimes even longer. |
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| The Orphan Drug Act of 1983 was passed to encourage the development and marketing of products used to treat rare diseases. The act defines a "rare disease" as a condtion affecting fewer than 200,000 individuals in the United States. |
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COMPASSIONTE ACCESS
TO UNAPPROVED
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The Compassionate Access program allows patients to receive drugs that have not been approved by the FDA.
This program provides experimental drugs for patients who could benefi from new treatments but who probably die before the drug is approved. |
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| Are drugs tht the federal government has designated to be potentially harmful unless their use is supervised by a licensed health care provider, such as a nurse practioner, physician, or dentist. |
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Are drugs that are designted by the FDA to besafe if taken as directed. |
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| Are the most carefully monitored of all drugs. |
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| Is a compulsive need to use a substance repeatedly to avoid mild to severe withdrawl symptoms. It is the body's dependence on repeated administration of a drug. |
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| Is a compulsion to use a substance to obtain to pleasurable experience, it is the minds dependence on the repeated administration of a drug. |
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HOW OFTEN ARE
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES COUNTED IN HOSPITALS OR OTHER AGENCIES?
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| EVERY 8 TO 12 HRS to account for each ampule, tablet, or other form of the drug. |
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| WHAT IS THE BEST WAY FOR DRUGS TO BE ABSORBED INTO THE BLOODSTREAM? |
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Best when given by
Intravenous (IV) route
directly into the bloodstream |
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WHAT MUST BE
MAINTAINED IN ORDER FOR THE DRUG TO BE EFFECTIVE? |
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| In order for the drug to be effective a certain blood level must be maintained. |
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| Are drugs that bind with a receptor to produce a therapeutic response. |
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Hypersensitivity (reaction) to a certain drug.
examples: hives, itching, swelling of limbs |
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| Is an EXTREMELY SERIOUS ALLERGIC DRUG REACTION, that usually occurs soon after the administration of a drug to which the individual is severly sensative to. |
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WHAT ARE THE VARIOUS FACTORS THAT MAY INFLUENCE A PATIENT'S
DRUG RESPONSE? |
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| They are a patient's AGE, WEIGHT, GENDER, DISEASE, AND THE ROUTE OF ADMINISTRATION. |
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"SEVEN RIGHTS"
OF DRUG ADMINISTRATION |
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* RIGHT PATIENT
*RIGHT DRUG
* RIGHT DOSE
* RIGHT ROUTE
*RIGHT TIME
* RIGHT DOCUMENTATION
*RIGHT TECHNIQUE |
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"THREE CHECKS"
FOR DRUG ADMINISTRATION FROM SUPPLY AREA |
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1) check label when removing the drug from the storage area.
2) check label immediately before removing the drug from the container.
3) check label before returning the drug to it's storage area. |
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