Consent
A parent is a good example of a _______ to their child
Guardian
Negligence is a good example of which kind of tort?
Intentional tort
Which of the following terms meets the following definition: a voluntary and informed act in which one party gives permission to another party to “touch”?
Consent
Term describing when a hospital doesn’t get the proper amount of training
Corporate negligence
who developed risk management to help hospitals with potential liability prevention?
Hospitals
Surgical team verifies correct patient, procedure, site, and side during the ________
Time Out
Foreign bodies left in patient is an example of
unintentional tort
What provision does HIPPA not provide ?
Access to care
A reckless disregard for ones safety
Criminal negligence
what year did the IOM claim that medical errors were the leading cause of death?
1990
Act without written consent
Implied Consent
the actual act of harm or unwanted contact with a person, including contact without proper consent
battery
What is the term that means “patient first”
Aegar Primo
Negligence claims must have the following: duty, breach, causation, and _______
Damages/harm
When did the Safe Medical Device Act become effective?
November 28th, 1990
A surgeon prints out what a surgery is going to include and all of the risks included, the patient signs this form which is an example of which type of consent
informed consent
TORT This term would describe an intentional tort resulting from oral or written slander
Defamation
What term BEST described as “professional misconduct that results in harm to another”?
Malpractice
What if a patient suffered a burn as a result of improper application of the grounding pad the individual team member responsible may be found guilty in a lawsuit of what kind
Negligence
What is the name of the type of report sent to risk management in an effort to decrease the chance of harm to patients or staff or damage to hospital property?
sentinel event
What is not included on the surgical consent
Patient Signature
Which legal action is most likely in cases involving tort law, and or personnel
civil
The legal doctrine that would be most affable in a case involving failure by an RN, and a scrub tech to do proper surgical counts, resulting in retention of a foreign object, and the surgeon being found not liable
doctrine borrowed servant
what legal doctrine would most likely apply in the case of wrong site surgery or retain foreign body?
res ipsa loquitur
what organizations are in a joint effort with the Council on Surgical & perioperative safety and the Joint commission?
ACS, AST, ASA, AANA, ASPAN, AASPA,& AORN