Title: (Optional) Identify professional work practices specific to the healthcare worker.
Course: Health and Medical Sciences Exploratory (9 weeks) (14001-9) > Section: Exploring Health Care as a Career

Identification should include

- ensuring safe and reliable healthcare delivery
- maintaining patient rights
- maintaining the code of ethics
- maintaining continuity of patient care
- upholding health-related laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, as related to confidentiality of medical records, scope of practice, and patient rights
- focusing on customer service and quality
- modeling interprofessional practice.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What behaviors can cause an employee to lose a healthcare job?
- What are five ways to maintain patient confidentiality?
- How does hacking affect maintaining patient confidentiality?
- How is continuity of patient care maintained upon discharge from the hospital?