An act that causes another person to fear that he or she will be touched in an offensive, insulting, or physically injurious manner without consent or authority to do so.
What is Assault
100
Check and cross-check procedures should be in place to prevent the misidentification of a patient
What is Patient Misidentification
100
The obligation to disclose details for evaluation; commonly used to mean "to be held responsible for"
What is Accountability
100
Direct verbal or written statement granting permission for treatment.
What is Express Consent
100
Two issues that have an impact on the hospital's risk management policies and plans
What are reduced staffing and employee rights
200
The actual act of harmful or unwarranted contact with a person including contact without proper consent
What is Battery
200
The surgical team must take great precautions to prevent the removal of an incorrect body part or to perform any surgical procedure on the wrong site or side
What is Performing an incorrect procedure
200
A voluntary statement of facts sworn to be true before an authority
What is Affidavit
200
Occurs under circumstances that would lead a reasonable health care provider to believe that the patient had given consent although no direct or verbally expressed words of consent had been given
What is Implied Consent
200
Name two organizations that put an emphasis on the reduction of medical errors
What are the AST, TJC, ACS, ASA, AANA, ASPAN, AASPA, and AORN
300
Slander or libel that damages a person's reputation or good name
What is Defamation
300
The circulator and CST must count all items specified by hospital policy for counting before the procedure begins, at the time that wound closure begins, and again during skin closure
What is Foreign bodies left in patients secondary to incorrect sponge, sharps, and instrument counts
300
In good faith or innocently
What is Bona fide
300
A person who receives health services from a health care provider and who gives consent for the provider to provide those services
What is TJC's definition of a patient
300
What defines what is good for the individual and society and establishes the nature of duties that people owe themselves and one another
What is Ethics
400
The illegal detention of a person without consent or forcing a person to stay in an area by not allowing him or her to leave
What is False imprisonment
400
Burn wounds can occur when there is contact between tissue and energy sources, such as heat, electrical current, radiation or chemicals.
What is Patient Burns
400
Professional misconduct that results in harm to another; professional negligence
What is Malpractice
400
performing surgery without consent can be the commission of this
What is Battery
400
The Latin term for what remains first and foremost when complying with HIPPA standards
What is Aeger Primo
500
Disparaging remarks made about a patient that result in emotional distress
What is Intentional infliction of Emotional Distress
500
Unattended patient can fall from a stretcher when its side rails are down, and patient can also fall while being transferred to the operating table from the transport stretcher if safe transfer procedures are not followed.
What is Falls or Positioning errors resulting in patient injury
500
Either the omission or commission of an act that a reasonable and prudent individual would not do under the same conditions; may be associated with the phrase 'departure from the standard of care'
What is Negligence
500
A minor requiring surgery must have this kind of consent
What is Parental Consent
500
The first federal act to establish privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health related information.