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Privacy
Issues for Students and Instructors > Quiz
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questions are below. If you need to review, the course content
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The correct answers,
and explanations for why we believe them to be correct, are
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1. Are HIPAA's legal-regulatory requirements for students
different from those for regular members of the health
care workforce?
A. Yes, students are subject to a lower standard of preformance,
because they are in training.
B. No, students must meet the same standards as a regular
member of the workforce performing the same tasks.
C. Maybe. It depends on whether the student is in an undergraduate
or graduate program.
D. Maybe. It depends on whether the student is actually participating
in treatment provision for patients.
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2. What about the ethical standards
for student uses and disclosures of health information?
A. It's lower. Students deserve some slack. It's understood
that students do not yet have full professional competencies.
B. It's obviously the same.
C. Some would say it's higher, because patients don't always
benefit from students' access to their data, but the language
of the regulation makes it the same.
D. It depends. Each health care facility can set its own
standards.
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3. Do patients have to provide extra authorization for training
uses and disclosures of their information?
A. No. At least not because of HIPAA.
B. Yes. HIPAA requires this.
C. Only if the care setting is not formally designated as
a training facility.
D. Only if training is not mentioned in the Notice of Privacy
Practices.
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4. What about reporting privacy or security problems? Are
the requirements for students the same as for regular workers?
A. Yes. Like any other member of the workforce, students
are obligated to report problems they are not in a position
to correct..
B. No. It's assumed that students are always supervised,
and supervisors have the responsibility to report problems.
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5. Which of the following is generally a
false statement about student-instructor relations?
A. Students’ position in the organizational
hierarchy may put them in a better position to discover privacy
problems, but in a less comfortable position to report what
is found.
B. Instructors are under a particular burden
to set a good example for their students, because they lead
by example.
C. Instructors are under a particular burden
to engender a climate where reporting of problems is expected
and encouraged.
D. All of these are true.
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correct answers, and explanations for why we believe them
to be correct, are provided here.
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