Health and policy

1- Analyze the state legislative reporting requirements and then use metacomprehension to identify the criminal and civil risks to health care professionals for failing to report certain incidents. Provide examples of legal case law to support your response. (350 words required)
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From what I am understanding from reading the textbook there are many kinds of reporting’s that need to be done for certain situations or incidents: child and senior abuse, communicable diseases, drug reactions, and physician competency. The reporting requirements for child abuse are an oral report need to be made immediately following the incident and a written report. According to the book the reports must be in good faith belief, meaning that what you are reporting needs to be true and not false information (Pozgar, 2019, p. 503).
The reporting requirements for senior abuse is to know the warning signs because it can be difficult in that of an elderly person. From the textbook the warning signs are “frequent arguments or tension, sudden changes in the elder’s financial condition, changes in the elder’s personality or behavior, visible injuries such as broken bones, cuts, scars, and bed sores” (Pozgar, 2019, p. 506). To report this, there must be a witness to the abuse and possible photographs of wounds and injuries for the emergency room or police. Nurses and doctors must observe and understand their patients.
The reporting requirements for communicable diseases is if it is actual or suspected cases they need to be reported to the CDC. For HIV reporting according to the textbook, “providers and labs must let the HIV positive patient know to let their sexual or needle sharing partners to seek help from public officials” (Pozgar, 2019, p. 507).
The reporting requirements for drug reactions is to report to the FDA. Any reactions to food, product quality problems, and product use errors with human medical products is to be reported (Pozgar, 2019, p. 508).
The reporting requirements for physician competency stated in the textbook are, “applicable to hospitals, healthcare entities, boards of medical examiners, professional societies of physicians, dentists, or other healthcare practitioners to take adverse licensure or professional review actions and individuals and entities making payments as a result of medical malpractice actions or claims” (Pozgar, 2019, p. 509).

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