Record Keeping
The section of a patient’s chart you would go to verify a physician’s prescription for a drug.
What is: Physician’s orders?
When a Respiratory Therapist engages in a questionable business practice, they are committing this type of malpractice.
What is: Ethical Malpractice?
An inflammation of the stomach.
What is “Gastritis”?
Credited with the discovery of oxygen.
Who is Joseph Priestly?
In regards to respiratory equipment, this device is the most common source of patient infections.
What are: Large Volume Nebulizers?
Subjective data gathered during a physical exam are referred to as this.
What is: Symptoms
When a practitioner performs a procedure that involves physical contact without the patient's consent, it can result in this charge.
What is: Battery?
Within or inside the heart.
What is “Endocardium”?
NBRC stands for this.
What is the “National Board for Respiratory Care”?
This is the percentage of patients that will develop a health-care associated infection.
What is: 4%?
Where you would go to find out what drugs or intravenous fluids a patient has recently received.
What is: Medication Record?
When a physician participates in active euthanasia, they are committing this type of malpractice.
What is: Criminal?
The removal of a kidney.
What is a “Nephrectomy”?
“CoARC” stands for this.
What is the “Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care”?
This is considered the primary source of infection in the health care setting.
What are: Humans?
This is who writes in the progress notes section of the chart each day.
Who is: the Physician, RT, RN, PT, anybody?
A clinician who justifies withdrawing life support because “in the end, it would be best for all” is applying this ethical viewpoint.
What is: Consequentialism?
The acronym “CABG” stands for this.
What is “Coronary artery bypass graft”?
Used to decrease the misallocation of Respiratory Care services.
What are “Therapist Driven Protocols”?
This is the simplest level of infection control based on the recognition that all blood, body fluids, secretions, and excretions may contain transmissible infectious agents.
What is: Standard Precautions?
If the patient is unable to provide an accurate history, the Respiratory Therapist should do this.
What is: Ask a family member of friend to supply the information?
When an RT defers a patient’s question about a condition to the physician, they are practicing this ethical principle.
What is: Role Fidelity?
This three times a day.
What is: TID?
The year that the American Association of Respiratory Therapy changed it’s name to American Association for Respiratory Care.
What is: 1986?
HIV is only transmitted through.
What is: Direct Contact?