Laws/Rights/Regulations
The specific tasks/procedures a healthcare worker is legally allowed to perform within their license/certification is called
What is scope of practice
Leaving an instrument inside a patient or operating on the wrong body part is known as which tort?
What is Malpractice?
It is important to remember that patients must give _________ for any care they are going to be receiving.
consent
Information about the patient must remain private and can be shared only with other members of the health care team is known as
What is Confidentiality?
set of moral principles that guide our behavior, based on values like honesty, respect, fairness, and compassion.
What is Ethics
factors of care that all patients' can expect to receive; must be recognized by all healthcare providers
What are Patients' Rights
Guess the Tort: A patient contracts an infection because the hospital staff failed to sterilize a piece of medical equipment according to protocol.
What is Negligence?
patient clearly and directly states their agreement to a procedure. It can be verbal or written. Is known as what type of consent?
What is Expressed Consent
True/ False: You may perform any procedures you are not qualified to do, as long as you gain authorization/consent from the patient first.
What is False?
known as legal directives; legal documents created to indicate a person’s wishes regarding care in the event that incapacitation prevents their expression
Advanced Directives
focuses on behavior known as crime; deals with wrongs against a person, property, or society.
What is Criminal Law
A doctor is performing a physical exam on a patient. During the exam, the patient clearly states, 'Please stop, I'm not comfortable with this.' The doctor, believing the exam is necessary, continues. Which tort might the doctor be liable for?
What is Battery?
A patient who is unconscious and unable to communicate is an example of someone who has this, which means they do not have the legal capacity to form a contract.
What is a Legal Disability?
If any error occurs or you make a mistake at any time when working with a patient, what should you do?
What is Report it to supervisor immediately?
Documents that allow individuals to state what measures should or should not be taken to prolong life when their conditions are terminal
What is a Living Will?
The minimum level of care that a healthcare provider is expected to provide for a patient is called standards of care. What is an example of Standard of care?
What is Handwashing, Patient Identification, documentation, Safety
A physician tells a professional colleague at a conference, 'Patient X is a hypochondriac who fakes their symptoms to get attention.' This statement, if false, could be considered which tort?
What is Defamation?
In an emergency where a patient is unconscious or unable to communicate (like after an accident), It is assumed the patient would want life-saving treatment if they were able to give permission. Medical professionals act in the patient's best interest to prevent serious harm or death. What type of consent is this?
what is Implied Consent?
What is Education & research, communication tool, legal protection, billing & reimbursement?
A legal document that permits an individual (principal) to appoint another person (agent) to make any decisions regarding health care if the principal becomes unable to make decisions
What is a Durable Power of Attorney?
focuses on the legal relationship between people and the protection of a person's rights;Seen the most in healthcare
What is Civil Law
During a routine check-up, a patient tells a nurse that they are feeling very scared about an upcoming surgery. The nurse, without the patient's permission, tells another patient in the waiting room, 'You won't believe how scared the patient in Room 3 is about their surgery!' Which tort has the nurse committed?
What is Invasion of Privacy
Before a serious procedure, a patient must be told about the diagnosis, treatment, benefits, risks, alternatives, and consequences of doing nothing. This process is called this.
What is Informed Consent?
Legal responsibilities, ethics, patients’ rights, and advance directives all help determine the type of care provided by health care providers. Together these are called?
Professional Standards
situation where you have to make a choice between two or more options, and no matter what you choose, there will be a conflict with one or more ethical principles.
Ethical Dilemma