Patient Rights
Price:
$2.00
Description:
<p id="isPasted">Every day’s different in healthcare, because you never know what challenges you’ll face. But it’s rewarding, as you’re able to help and support people when they need it. Often these people will be at their most vulnerable when you work with them, so you also have a duty to protect them, and their Protected Health Information, or PHI.</p><p><br /></p><p>Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA for short, patients have certain rights. And it’s part of your job to make sure these rights are observed, and patients are treated fairly. You also need to know how to handle situations where patients, or their families, want access to information. And that’s where this course will help.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:</strong></p><p><br /></p><p>• Describe patients' rights around PHI, including the Right of Access<br />• Explain how requests for access must be handled, and when access can be denied<br />• Explain patient rights to patients, their families, or parents of child patients</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Why take this course?</strong></p><p><br /></p><p>Wherever you work in healthcare, you need to be an advocate for the people you’re looking after, and stay HIPAA compliant. And that’s why it’s vital to understand what you can and can’t do, regarding the rights of patients. This course will identify the rights that patients have, and how to explain them to patients and their families. And it’s got useful advice about handling requests for access to PHI.</p><p><br /></p><p>10 mins | SCORM | Infographic</p>