TERMINOLOGY
Agreement among members of a group
What is Consensus
An obligation to either do or not do something
What is Liability?
The irreversible loss of all functions of the entire brain.
What is whole brain death?
This organization develops standards and accredits healthcare organizations in the U.S.
What is the Joint Commission
This means the "patient first"
What is Aeger Primo
A hierarchy of personnel positions that establishes both vertical and horizontal relationships between positions.
What is Chain of Command
Professional misconduct would be considered this.
What is malpractice?
When a patient dies, a Procurement Coordinator may help to organize this process.
What is Organ donation?
Among other things, this agency regulates medical devices.
What is the FDA?
This means, "above all, do no harm"
What is Primum non nocere
A person's ability to plan for and achieve their goals
Professional status granted by the State government that defines the limits of practice and regulates the profession.
What is licensure?
A coping stage of behavior that result in the patient returning to abnormal or former behavior.
What is regression.
This is like the AST but for Nurses.
What is the AORN.
This means, "let the master answer"
What is Respondeat superior
Agents or substances capable of supporting fires
What are Oxidizers
Either the doing or not doing of an act that a reasonable and prudent individual would not due under the same circumstances.
What is Negligence?
A legal document signed by the Patient stating the conditions and limitation of medical assistance in the event of near death or prognosis of death.
What is a Living will?
State laws that establish and regulate the conditions under which professionals may practice, including licensure, registration, educational requirements, scope of duties and functions.
What is Practice Acts.
This means, "in good faith, or innocently"
What is Bona fide
The constriction of electrical current by a nonconductive material
What is impedance
A civil wrong, can be either intentional or unintentional.
What is a tort?
This Doctor proposed 5 stages of grief.
Who is Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
A medication that prevents anxiety-often administered preoperatively for patients who are highly anxious.
What is a Anxiolytic?
This means, "the thing speaks for itself"
What is Res ispa louquitur