Unlawful detention without a due process.
Habeas Corpus
Harmless mentally ill patients cannot be confined against their will if they can survive
... [Show More] outside. Mental illness alone cannot justify involuntary hospitalization
O'Connor versus Donaldson
Right to refuse any treatment and use an appeal process
Rennie versus Klein
Patient has a right to refuse treatment, but a guardian may authorize their treatment
Roger versus Oken
Individual may not criminally be responsible if the unlawful act was the product of mental illness
Dirham versus US
Competency to be executed
Ford versus Wainwright
Duty to warn, potential victims who may be in immediate danger Doodoo expressed homicidal ideation of the patient
Tarasoff
The least restrictive environment - informed consent
Patient Rights
10 year plan for nursing path towards computer and information literacy. The initiative declared that it is a nurse practitioners responsibility to understand and shape the landscape of healthcare technology to improve access quality and patient experience
TIGER Technology informatics guiding education reform require technology curriculum for colleges
A law that requires most hospitals to provide an exam and needed Stabilizing treatment without consideration of insurance coverage
Emergency medical treatment and labor act EMT LA
Established provide improved access to services for older adults, additional services for Native Americans including community services
Older Americans Act
Guidelines for nursing facilities as long term care
Omnibus budget reconciliation act
Provides physically and mentally disabled patient access to employment and community
Americans with disability act
Reduces suicide rate in attempts by adolescence, eating disorders
Healthy people 2020
Medicaid direct reimbursement for NP's under federal law
Balanced budget act of 1997
Signed into law in 1996 requires annual or lifetime dollar limit on mental health benefits to be no lower than any such dollar limits for medical or surgical benefits offered by a group health plan or health insurance issue were offering coverage in connection with a group health plan
The mental health parody act MHPA
Ask contains provisions for meaningful use of health information technology
Health information technology For economic and clinical health act HITECH
Cannot self refer patients for monetary gains. Example. Pharmaceutical company pays off student loans and you work for the company providing samples to patients and provide company sponsored education and get paid, conflict of interest
Stark Law
Allows insurance up to 26 years of age or a parent
Affordable Care Act
Helps families of mentally ill, education, support groups
National alliance on mental illness NAMI
access, cost, quality
Healthcare policy model
Formulation + implementation + evaluation
Phases of policymaking
Changes in programs and practices. Policymakers and key stakeholder such as government media public. Assess address organization barriers and facilitators to evidence based practice first. Access is baseline knowledge, beliefs, practices using a survey
Policy reform
Act must be reviewed by a certain date or it will be automatically resend it
Sunset Legislation
Legislation design to increase transparency in government processes
Sunrise legislation
Defines the practitioners rolls and actions, identifies competencies assumed to be held by all and peas who function in a roll, has brought variations from state to state due to outdated least legislation, comes from the state board of nursing
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