Make a 'Family Feud' Game with These Questions
July 1, 1997 2 minutes read
Make a Family Feud’ Game with These Questions
Continue Care Home Health of Greenville, MS, uses a "Family Feud" game to teach staff about the patient bill of rights, the standards of ethical practice, advance directives, and fraud and abuse.
Here are a few of the game questions:
1. Who can witness the Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care?
Answer: Anybody, other than the person named in the document or a health care worker.
2. Name one issue that is addressed in the Standards of Ethical Practice. (Use this question 6 times)
Answers:
a. Neither the owner nor any home health agency employee shall knowingly mislead a patient, family member, or caregiver concerning services, charges, or use of equipment.
b. Neither the owner nor any home health agency employee shall misuse or misappropriate any property, real or personal, belonging to any patient, family member, or caregiver.
c. Neither the owner nor any home health agency employee shall knowingly and actively recruit a patient under the care of another home health agency.
d. No employee or patient of a home health agency shall be coerced into participating in Agency fund-raising activities.
e. The home health agency shall accept patient referrals in a professional manner with no remuneration provided to the referring agency.
f. Patient clinical records, administrative records, and financial records shall not be falsified by any individual for any reason.
3. When is the Patient Bill of Rights presented to the patient?
Answer: At the time of admission, and periodically review with the patient (every recertification period).
4. List one time that the Living Will can be revoked. (Use this question 2 times)
Answer: If the patient changed his or her mind about the person making the decision or if the hospital or facility does not accept Living Wills (but then they must transfer the patient to another facility).
5. How do we receive referrals?
Answer: From the Doctor, Hospital by Doctor order, or Social Worker/Discharge Coordinator by order from Doctor.
6. Who is involved in the planning of the patient’s medical treatment?
Answer: The patient, doctor, nurse, and other therapist, or the agency.
7. When are patients transferred or discharged?
Answer: Transfer or discharge only for medical reason, or his or her welfare, or in the event of an unsafe environment, or should the patient refuse treatment.
8. What are the two most common types of Advance Directives?
Answer: Durable Power of Attorney and Living Will.
9. Where would you find specific instructions of a patient’s desire to withhold CPR or DNR issues?
Answer: In the Living Will.
10. Who would be able to make health care decisions for the patient if a Living Will or Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care were not written by the patient?
Answer: It would be based on the decision of the patient’s family.
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