Chapter 15
A comparison of a patient's previous and current test results
What is a Delta Check
Harmful touching without consent
What is Battery
Wrongful act causing harm to persons or property
What is Tort?
This test is used to monitor Coumadin therapy
What is PT or Prothrombin?
A heart murmur indicates a possible structural defect here.
What is a heart valve?
Best way to evaluate the performance of a pneumatic tube system.
What is record the number of unacceptable specimens that have occurred as a result of transit through the system
Lack of skill by a health-care worker that causes harm to a patient.
What is medical malpractice?
An unexpected patient death that is not related to the patient's illness
What is a sentinel event?
Documentation of the correct handling of a urine drug collection specimen
What is Chain of Custody?
Word root for eyelids
What is Blephar
Principles of right and wrong
What are ethics
Employers are responsible for negligent acts by their employees.
What is Respondeat superior?
This department develops policies to protect employees from financial losses, identify potential risks to employees and patients, and evaluate changes to improve safety.
What is Risk Management?
The number of swabs collected with Rapid Strept test.
What are 2?
This joint action is taking place when palms are facing down.
What is pronation?
True or False A patient's medical Records can be used as a legal document.
What is true
Failure to give resonable care.
What is Negligence?
The document written by the American Hospital Association that describes what a patient has a right to expect during medical treatment.
What is the Patient's Bill of Rights?
The large vein that returns blood from the head, neck, thorax, and upper limbs to the right atrium of the heart
What is Superior Vena Cava?
This blood pressure is a measure of the force that blood exerts on the walls of the arteries when the heart contacts
What is systolic?
Action punishable by imprisonment
What is criminal law suit?
Action seeking monetary compensation.
What is a civil law suit?
Never given to outpatients for the collection of fecal specimens
What are bed pans?
The weakness in an arterial wall.
What is an aneurysm?
Suffix for discharge or flow
What is -rrhea?