Risk Management
Traditional Principles
Miscellaneous
Legal Terms
Intentional Torts
100

sentinel event reports used by the healthcare facility risk management

Falls, medication errors, intraoperative burns, and loss of specimens

Incident reports

100

federal act to establish privacy standards to protect patients’ medical records and other health-related information

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

100

The recognition by an appropriate body that an individual has met a predetermined standard

Certification:

100

The operative consent must be signed

before the patient is giving preoperative medication

100

Touching or threatening to touch another person in an offensive, insulting, or physically harmful manner without consent or authority to do so

Assault

200

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

200

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

200

minimum knowledge base for a given healthcare profession

Credentialing

200

Professional misconduct that results in harm to another; professional negligence

Malpractice

200

What is NOT included in the patients medical records?

Surgeon's preference card

300

a set of written instructions that address an incapacitated patient’s right to self-determination

Advance Directives

300

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

300

The most common types of patient-care errors committed by operating room personnel, including negligence and malpractice

unintentional torts

300

Who is responsible for obtaining a written, informed surgical consent from the patient?

surgeon

300

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

400

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

400

guides for ethical decision making and are the principles we try to instill in our children, such as benevolence, trustworthiness, and honesty

moral principles

400

Failing to observe or act in a situation that the individual should have known about and acted on

negligence

400

The expected conduct of a professional in each circumstance

Standard of care

400

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

500

Established for the placement of sharps during a surgical procedure to ensure that no person-to-person passing of sharps occurs

neutral zone

500

the knowledge and skills required of a profession to provide effective services.

Professional standards of conduct

500

legal terms is BEST described as “professional misconduct that results in harm to another

malpractice

500

foreign body left inside the patient

Unintentional Tort

500

describes a method of pretrial discovery in which a surgical team member might answer questions under oath

deposition

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