Principles
A patient's right to make their own medical decisions.
What is Autonomy?
The year the AMA established the first national code of medical ethics.
What is 1847?
The failure to properly treat or care for a patient.
What is Negligence?
The hospital where Henrietta Lacks was treated in 1951.
What is Johns Hopkins Hospital?
A credential demonstrating specific knowledge or skills, usually earned by passing a test.
What is Certification?
A professional's duty to minimize harm and promote good care.
What is Beneficence?
The law requiring ERs to treat all patients regardless of ability to pay.
What is EMTALA?
A deviation from the standard of care that injures a patient.
What is Malpractice?
The name given to her famously immortal cell line.
What are HeLa cells?
Legal permission granted by a state government agency to practice a profession
What is Licensure?
A patient's right to fair and equal treatment.
What is Justice?
The law that audits providers for HIPAA compliance.
What is HITECH?
The legal responsibility to provide restitution for negligence or malpractice.
What is Liability?
What was never obtained from Lacks before her cells were taken and used?
What is informed consent?
The most common U.S. healthcare example of registration.
What is the NPI (National Provider Identification)?
A patient's right to not be harmed during care.
What is Non-Maleficence?
Name 2 of HIPAA's 5 exceptions to confidentiality.
What are any 2 of: consent, court order, continued order, complying with law, communicating a threat?
The ethical responsibility to not disclose patient information without authorization.
What is Confidentiality?
One disease or scientific breakthrough HeLa cells helped researchers study.
What is polio (or cancer, radiation effects, COVID-19 research)?
A Facilities/Environmental Services Technician falls under this healthcare pathway.
What is Support Services?
The research-ethics principle about keeping patient identity protected.
What is Privacy & Confidentiality?
The federal agency regulating workplace hazards like bloodborne pathogens and PPE.
What is OSHA?
Name one real consequence a professional might face after a malpractice finding.
What is license suspension/loss, termination, or a lawsuit?
The ethical principle most clearly violated by not informing Lacks or her family for decades.
What is Autonomy (or Justice)?
A Physical Therapist falls under this healthcare pathway.
What is Therapeutic Services?