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This is a written (or verbal) agreement after adequate information is provided. An example would be something that the technologist must have a patient fill out before an invasive procedure.
Informed Consent
Being financially or legally responsible for something is the definition for:
Liability
Developed to aid in ethical problem-solving for imaging professionals
DOWD Model
This type of communication includes eye contact, touching, facial expressions, physical appearance, body language, and gestures.
Non-Verbal
Evaluates the good of an activity by assessing whether immediate harm is balanced with a future benefit.
Bases decisions on the consequences or outcomes of a given act.
Consequentialism
This type of law focuses on disputes between parties, negligence, and malpractice.
Civil (tort) law
Inappropriate use of physical restraints may constitute what?
False Imprisonment
This is the term for patients allowing death by refusing needed treatment.
Passive Suicide
Failing to provide reasonable care and caution. An example would be forgetting to put up bed rails and your patient falls.
Negligence
A legal doctrine meaning “the thing speaks for itself.
Res ipsa loquitor
This type of law focuses on offenses against the state, such as assault or theft.
Criminal Law
Examines the significance of actions themselves.
Bases decision-making on individual motives and morals rather than consequences
Deontology
This term defines a patient's written wishes for future care.
Living Will (Advanced Directive)
The ethical principle of doing good and acting in the best interest of the patient.
Beneficence
Defines health care as a business relationship between the provider and patient
Contractual model
This type of tort is defined as a threat causing fear of unwarranted contact. An example would be approaching with barium after refusal.
Assault
This is the obligation to tell the truth.
Veracity
This term means reasonable anticipation of harm from actions.
Foreseeability
The ethical principle of avoiding harm to the patient.
Nonmaleficence
The concept that patients are to be treated as individuals and informed about procedures to facilitate appropriate decisions
Autonomy
This type of tort is unconsented touching, such as performing a procedure without signed consent.
Battery
This doctrine means that the employer is liable for employee acts within the scope. “Let the master answer.”
Respondeat Superior
This is verbal or spoken defamation.
Slander
An agreement between the patient and health care provider often grounded in traditional values and goal
Covenantal model
Incorporates elements of consequentialism and deontology to provide a more holistic approach to solving ethical dilemmas.
Focuses on the use of practical wisdom for emotional and intellectual problem solving
Virtue Ethics