RDHAP Law and Ethics UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
Employee of DDS or another RDHAP, as independent contractor, as sole proprietor
of AP practice, as employee of primary care clinic, as employee of clinic owned or
RDHAP can practice as... operated by public hospital or health system, as employee of clinic owned and
operated by hospital that maintains primary contact with county government to fill
county's role
A) residences of home bound
B) schools
RDHAP can practice at....
C) residential facilities and other institutions
D) dental health professional shortage areas
A) other RDHAP to assist in practice
RDHAP can hire... B) dental assistants for retraction and suction
C) NOT an RDH to provide direct patient services
Must provide committee documentation of existing relationship with at least one
Referrals
DDS for referral, consultation, and emergency services
A) can provide services without written verification that patient has had exam with
DDS, physician and surgeon licensed to practice is CA
B) after 18 months since first date of service, must obtain written verification patient
has been examined by DDS, physician and surgeon licensed to practice in CA
Prescriptions to Practice
C) prescription valid for time period based on dentist's it physician and surgeon's
professional judgement, but not to exceed two years from issue date
D) without obtaining prescription shall constitute unprofessional conduct on the part
of the RDHAP, and reason for committee to revoke or suspend license
Negligent failure of a person having the care or custody of a child to protect the
child from severe malnutrition or medically diagnosed nonorganic failure to thrive.
Severe Child Neglect
Being placed in situation which that his/her person or health is endangered,
including failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical care.
, Negligent failure of a person having the care or custody of a child to provide
General Child Neglect adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care, or supervision where no physical
injury to the child has occured
Situation where nay person willfully inflicts upon any child any cruel or inhuman
Unlawful Corporal Punishment or Injury
corporal punishment or injury resulting in a traumatic condition.
State Department of Social Services office responsible for the licensing and
enforcement of the California Community Care Facilities Act, the California Child Day
Licensing Agency
Care Act, or the county licensing agency which has contracted with the state for
performance of those duties
A report that is determined by the investigator who conducted the investigation to
Unfounded Report be false, to be inherently improbable, to involve an accidental injury, or not to
constitute child abuse or neglect
Report that is determined by the investigator to constitute child abuse or neglect
Substantiated Report
based upon evidence has occurred
Report that is determined by the investigator that the findings are inconclusive and
Inconclusive Report
there is insufficient evidence to determine whether child abuse or neglect.
A) Initial report by telephone immediately or as soon as practicably possible
including name, business address, and telephone number of mandated reporter
B) Prepare and send, fax, or electronically transmit a written followup report within
36 hours of receiving the information concerning the incident
C) If cannot make phone call, must make a one-time automated written report on
the form prescribed by Department of Justice, and shall be available to respond to
Child Mandated Reporting telephone follow up
D) Failure to report is guilty of misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months
confinement in county jail or by a fine of $1,000 or by both that imprisonment and
fine
E) Failure to report that is resulting in death or great bodily injury shall be punished
by not more than one year in county jail, by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by
both that fine and imprisonment.
Objectively reasonable for a person to entertain a suspicion, based upon facts that
Child Reasonable Suspicion could cause a reasonable person in a like position, drawing, when appropriate, on
his/her training and experience, to suspect child abuse or neglect.
Anyone under age of 16 must be reported immediately with follow up hard copy
Film Depiction
within 36 hours of receiving information.
If two or more mandated reports witnessed the same incident, one can make report
Multiple Mandated Reporters
in representation of other reports if in agreement
County Probation/Welfare Department Must report within 24 hours
Reporting
If violated is misdemeanor with no more than six months in county jail and fine of
Child Mandated Reporting Confidentiality
$500, or by both that imprisonment and fine
Child Neglect and Xrays May be taken without parental consent if neglect is suspected
Desertion or will forsaking of an elder or a dependent adult by anyone having care
Elder Abandonment or custody of that person under circumstances in which a reasonable person would
continue to provide care and custody
Removal from this state and the restraint from returning to this state, or the restraint
from returning to this state, of any elder or dependent adult who does not have the
Abduction
capacity to consent to the removal from this state and the restraint from returning to
this state etc
Employee of DDS or another RDHAP, as independent contractor, as sole proprietor
of AP practice, as employee of primary care clinic, as employee of clinic owned or
RDHAP can practice as... operated by public hospital or health system, as employee of clinic owned and
operated by hospital that maintains primary contact with county government to fill
county's role
A) residences of home bound
B) schools
RDHAP can practice at....
C) residential facilities and other institutions
D) dental health professional shortage areas
A) other RDHAP to assist in practice
RDHAP can hire... B) dental assistants for retraction and suction
C) NOT an RDH to provide direct patient services
Must provide committee documentation of existing relationship with at least one
Referrals
DDS for referral, consultation, and emergency services
A) can provide services without written verification that patient has had exam with
DDS, physician and surgeon licensed to practice is CA
B) after 18 months since first date of service, must obtain written verification patient
has been examined by DDS, physician and surgeon licensed to practice in CA
Prescriptions to Practice
C) prescription valid for time period based on dentist's it physician and surgeon's
professional judgement, but not to exceed two years from issue date
D) without obtaining prescription shall constitute unprofessional conduct on the part
of the RDHAP, and reason for committee to revoke or suspend license
Negligent failure of a person having the care or custody of a child to protect the
child from severe malnutrition or medically diagnosed nonorganic failure to thrive.
Severe Child Neglect
Being placed in situation which that his/her person or health is endangered,
including failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical care.
, Negligent failure of a person having the care or custody of a child to provide
General Child Neglect adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care, or supervision where no physical
injury to the child has occured
Situation where nay person willfully inflicts upon any child any cruel or inhuman
Unlawful Corporal Punishment or Injury
corporal punishment or injury resulting in a traumatic condition.
State Department of Social Services office responsible for the licensing and
enforcement of the California Community Care Facilities Act, the California Child Day
Licensing Agency
Care Act, or the county licensing agency which has contracted with the state for
performance of those duties
A report that is determined by the investigator who conducted the investigation to
Unfounded Report be false, to be inherently improbable, to involve an accidental injury, or not to
constitute child abuse or neglect
Report that is determined by the investigator to constitute child abuse or neglect
Substantiated Report
based upon evidence has occurred
Report that is determined by the investigator that the findings are inconclusive and
Inconclusive Report
there is insufficient evidence to determine whether child abuse or neglect.
A) Initial report by telephone immediately or as soon as practicably possible
including name, business address, and telephone number of mandated reporter
B) Prepare and send, fax, or electronically transmit a written followup report within
36 hours of receiving the information concerning the incident
C) If cannot make phone call, must make a one-time automated written report on
the form prescribed by Department of Justice, and shall be available to respond to
Child Mandated Reporting telephone follow up
D) Failure to report is guilty of misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months
confinement in county jail or by a fine of $1,000 or by both that imprisonment and
fine
E) Failure to report that is resulting in death or great bodily injury shall be punished
by not more than one year in county jail, by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by
both that fine and imprisonment.
Objectively reasonable for a person to entertain a suspicion, based upon facts that
Child Reasonable Suspicion could cause a reasonable person in a like position, drawing, when appropriate, on
his/her training and experience, to suspect child abuse or neglect.
Anyone under age of 16 must be reported immediately with follow up hard copy
Film Depiction
within 36 hours of receiving information.
If two or more mandated reports witnessed the same incident, one can make report
Multiple Mandated Reporters
in representation of other reports if in agreement
County Probation/Welfare Department Must report within 24 hours
Reporting
If violated is misdemeanor with no more than six months in county jail and fine of
Child Mandated Reporting Confidentiality
$500, or by both that imprisonment and fine
Child Neglect and Xrays May be taken without parental consent if neglect is suspected
Desertion or will forsaking of an elder or a dependent adult by anyone having care
Elder Abandonment or custody of that person under circumstances in which a reasonable person would
continue to provide care and custody
Removal from this state and the restraint from returning to this state, or the restraint
from returning to this state, of any elder or dependent adult who does not have the
Abduction
capacity to consent to the removal from this state and the restraint from returning to
this state etc
