Risk Management
sentinel event reports used by the healthcare facility risk management
Falls, medication errors, intraoperative burns, and loss of specimens
Incident reports
federal act to establish privacy standards to protect patients’ medical records and other health-related information
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
The recognition by an appropriate body that an individual has met a predetermined standard
Certification:
The operative consent must be signed
before the patient is giving preoperative medication
Touching or threatening to touch another person in an offensive, insulting, or physically harmful manner without consent or authority to do so
Assault
representatives from various departments within the healthcare facility attempt to identify the factors that caused the incident and what can be done to prevent it from happening again
Risk management
moral principles and rules that become standards for professional conduct and should not be confused with morals; the branch of philosophy that deals with systematic approaches to moral issues, such as the distinction between right and wrong and the moral consequences of human actions
ethics
minimum knowledge base for a given healthcare profession
Credentialing
Professional misconduct that results in harm to another; professional negligence
Malpractice
What is NOT included in the patients medical records?
Surgeon's preference card
a set of written instructions that address an incapacitated patient’s right to self-determination
Advance Directives
dictate codes of conduct that are put forward by a society and used as a guide to behavior by the members of that society
morals
The most common types of patient-care errors committed by operating room personnel, including negligence and malpractice
unintentional torts
Who is responsible for obtaining a written, informed surgical consent from the patient?
surgeon
Which type of consent applies when emergency circumstances exist when reasonable providers believe that a patient would agree to treatment, even if no form was signed or verbal permission given?
implied
contain straightforward language informing the patient about what they should expect during a healthcare facility stay concerning their rights and responsibilities
Patient’s Bill of Rights
guides for ethical decision making and are the principles we try to instill in our children, such as benevolence, trustworthiness, and honesty
moral principles
Failing to observe or act in a situation that the individual should have known about and acted on
negligence
The expected conduct of a professional in each circumstance
Standard of care
Which document allows the patient to give instructions regarding their medical care in the event they become incapacitated and cannot speak for themselves
Advance Directives
Established for the placement of sharps during a surgical procedure to ensure that no person-to-person passing of sharps occurs
neutral zone
the knowledge and skills required of a profession to provide effective services.
Professional standards of conduct
legal terms is BEST described as “professional misconduct that results in harm to another
malpractice
foreign body left inside the patient
Unintentional Tort
describes a method of pretrial discovery in which a surgical team member might answer questions under oath
deposition