Initial Recipient Rights Training Initial Recipient Rights Training Your Name* First Last Your Employer* Your date of Hire* MM slash DD slash YYYY Email* Acknowledgement* I have read through and viewed the Recipient Rights presentation.Please check this box to acknowledge that you have viewed the Recipient Rights presentation. 1. Rights of mental health recipients in Michigan are guaranteed by the Mental Health Code.* True False 2. A right may be limited.* True False 3. There is a right to be safe from harm.* True False 4. The employee decides when to take a recipient to lunch.* True False 5. A recipient wants to attend a specific church. Staff is required to comply with this request, because they must take recipients to the church of the recipient’s choice.* True False 6. Recipients can visit with, phone, or write their lawyers only at certain times.* True False 7. Recipients are to be allowed to talk on the phone in private.* True False 8. Recipients can spend the money they have.* True False 9. Staff may not restrict recipients from going where they wish to go unless it is in their plan.* True False 10. Several recipients who need supervision are out for a ride and are left alone in the van by staff, so that staff may do some banking. This is considered to be neglect.* True False 11. Documented 15 min checks are required by a recipient’s treatment plan. You find the recipient dead when you come on duty, and note that charting ended two hours before your shift. This is considered to be neglect.* True False 12. You, along with staff are trying to calm a recipient who is very agitated. Several times, the recipient spits in your face. When the recipient attempts to hit you in the face, you swat them across the face in order to make the recipient stop. This is considered abuse.* True False 13. An incident report should be filed whenever there is an occurrence that is not covered in the treatment plan of the recipient involved and which adversely affects the recipient’s treatment or the usual routine of the program.* True False 14. The Whistleblower’s Act protects those who report violations or suspected violations of federal, state, or local laws, rules, or regulations.* True False Situation: You see an employee touch the breast of a female recipient.15. You do nothing because the staff member is a good friend, and it was probably just an accident.* True False 16. You tell the staff to be more discrete or you will have to report it.* True False 17. You report it to your supervisor and complete an Incident Report.* True False Situation: You overhear a staff member swearing at a recipient.18. You do nothing, because that’s just the way that staff talks, and besides, the recipient was laughing.* True False 19. You report the comments because staff is not allowed to swear under any circumstances, in front of recipients.* True False
