PATIENT RESPONSIBILITIES
In order to make your stay with us as pleasant and productive as possible, it is necessary that you have knowledge of certain expectations regarding your responsibilities as a patient.
They include:
• Providing to the best of your knowledge, accurate and complete information about present complaints, past illnesses, hospitalizations, medications, and other matters relating to your health.
• Reporting unexpected changes in your condition to the responsible practitioner.
• Reporting whether you clearly understand a proposed course of action and what is expected of you.
• Following the treatment plan recommended by your physician primarily responsible for your care. This may include instructions of nurses and other health personnel as they carry out your plan of care, implement the physician’s orders, and enforce applicable hospital rules and regulations.
• Keeping appointments and, when unable to do so for any reason, notifying the responsible practitioner or hospital.
• Your clinical outcomes or consequences if you refuse treatment or don’t follow the practitioner’s instruction.
• Asking questions if you don’t understand your treatment plan.
• Assuring that the financial obligations of your healthcare are fulfilled as promptly as possible.
• Following hospital rules and regulations affecting patient care and conduct.
• Being considerate of the rights of other patients and hospital personnel and for assisting in the control of noise, smoking, and the number of visitors.
• Being considerate of the property of others and the hospital.