Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
Abandonment
one of a set of explicit or understood regulations or principles governing conduct within a particular activity or sphere.
What is rule?
__________ is an action taken by a firm to remove a product from the market that FDA considers to be in violation of the law. A drug may be recalled due to factors such as problems with packaging, manufacturing, or contamination.
What is drug recall?
The ability of a patient to understand the information you are providing, coupled with the ability to process that information and make an informed choice regarding medical care
What is decision making capacity?
No states should create a law that goes against a persons life, liberty or property
What is Equal protection clause?
A rule of law made and maintained by authority
What is regulation?
Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,_____is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases.
What is NIH (National Institute of Health)
Type of consent given when patient verbally or otherwise acknowledge that he or she wants you to provide care or transport.
What is expressed consent?
Term that describes the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, which protects the individual rights of citizens.
What is Bill of Rights?
This is a function of informed consent for if a doctor is caught completing this act they risk losing their very career
What is avoiding fraud or distress
What is not harming the patient or doing what is in best interest of the patient
Beneficence
the process for authorizing or approving a facility, program, or a person that conforms to formal standards
What is accreditation?
Implies that the patient's consent for an operation serves as an implicit consent for any or all procedures deemed necessary to cope with the unpredictable situations that jeopardize the patient's health
What is extension doctrine?
This requires that a procedure does not harm the patient involved or others in society
What is Non-Maleficence
Voluntary process by which a person who has met certain criteria established by a nongovernmental association is granted recognition
Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that he or she would want treatment.
What is implied consent?
Intentional false representation to deceive and does deceive another person to legal detriment or loss.
What is Fraud?
Mrs. Ray's favorite drink? :)
Coffee
A dispute resolution process in which the parties and their counsel argue their views of a civil controversy in a court of law
What is a civil litigation?