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Issues for Students and Instructors > Quiz + Answers
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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.
B is correct. Care facilities may choose to set
higher standards than the legal-regulatory minimum, but are
not required to do so. Information access is what counts;
the type of training program or responsibilities in it don't
figure in the HIPAA requirement.
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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.
B or C is correct. B meets the terms of the regulations,
and is ethically sufficient for many. C is correct if you
believe patients "donating" their information for
training purposes deserve a higher standard.
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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.
A is correct. Training must be mentioned in the Notice
of Privacy Practices, regardless of whether the facility is
"officially" a training institution.
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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
A is correct. We thought you deserved an easy one.
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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.
D is the right choice here.
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