NCCAOM Distance Learning/Online Program Worksheet
Distance Learning/Online Program Worksheet
PDA Provider # ACHB 319
Student Name: Tao He
Student Contact Information:
4149 Woodrush Ln, NWComstock Park, MI 49321
Program Title: Ethics Issues in Oriental Medicine
Date Program Started: Distance Learning
Program Worksheet1) With regard to subpoenas, what are your
responsibilities to fulfill your legal and professional obligations
in a request for your patients' records? After receiving a subpoena
therapists should carefully determine its validity, who initiated
it and whether it is in fact a court order. Release any and all the
relevant information related to the concern. If it is a court
order, no need for the patient to sign the release form Contacting
the clients, when appropriate, is very important. Sometimes clients
are willing to sign an authorization to release information and
want the therapist to respond fully to the subpoena.
Before responding to a subpoena consider the source of the
subpoena, client's welfare, other people's welfare, state and
federal laws (i.e., HIPAA, Patriot Act, copyright laws), codes of
ethics.
Sometimes providing only a summary of the treatment rather than
the entire file may be acceptable to attorneys and courts.
Provide the minimum information necessary. However, some
situations may demand that you release the entire file. 2) What are
the issues that call for emergency type interventions in the life
of a patient who is a minor? Healthcare provider has the duty to
inform the parents/guardians and in some cases, the appropriate
government agency of any issue of abuse, danger (to the community
or self), imminent harm or threat and reportable diseases (STD
etc). 3) While you are treating their minor children, describe the
best way to manage your relationship with the parents or guardians
of that child?
All parties wellbeing and benefits (therapist, minor children
and the parents) have to be considered. Need to set up a
contractual relationship with the parents/guardians. Have them sign
the contract that specify the information release guidelines, which
keep the specific contents strictly confidential and allow the
general information open to the parents. That way the therapist can
develop a working relationship with the parents and at the same
time, protect the minors confidentiality. However, therapist should
be a gate keeper. If imminent harm, danger or threat arises and is
considered to be credible, the gate keeper needs to act, and report
to authorities or social service and the parents as well.4) Who is
responsible for maintaining professional standards when it comes to
upholding the highest conduct in the profession?The therapist
himself/herself should be responsible for upholding the highest
conduct in the profession. Even at the teaching facility with
staffs and students, the therapist still should maintain the
highest professional standards at his/her own behavior. Students or
staffs sometime maybe fall short of expectation when it comes to
the ethical standard, but the therapist will be still responsible
for those ethical issues and consequences, i.e., talking to the
student about any unethical conduct such as breaching
confidentiality, engaging in multiple relationships etc. In some
cases, the therapist has the ultimate responsibility to report a
colleague or student/staff for inappropriate behavior.
Student Name
Tao He
Date 12/01/2014The student is approved to take the end-of-course
assessment.
PDA Provider NameThe Whole Circle
Date
