CONSENT & REFUSAL
Unilateral termination of care by the EMT without the patient's consent and without making provisions for transferring care to another health care professional with skills at the same level or higher.
What is Abandonment
Failure to use the degree of skill and learning expected of a profession, resulting in injury, loss, or damage to a patient
Malpractice
Threatening a person or causing a person fear of immediate bodily harm without person's consent.
What is Assault
A wrongful act that gives rise to a civil suit.
What is tort
May apply to patients who are:
Mentally ill
In behavioral crisis
Developmentally delayed
What is involuntary consent
Permission from a patient or guardian to provide care.
What is consent
Spoken comment that causes a person ridicule or contempt or damages the person’s reputation
Slander
Unlawfully touching a person; this includes providing medical care without consent.
What is Battery
An act that was enacted in 1996, providing for criminal sanctions as well as for civil penalties for releasing a patient's protected health information in a way not authorized by the patient.
What is HIPAA
Can withdraw from treatment at any time, even if the result is death or serious injury
What is The Right to Refuse Treatment
A type of consent in which the 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
False written statement that causes a person ridicule or contempt or causes damage to the person’s reputation
Libel
Seizing, confining, abducting, or carrying away of a person with force and without consent.
What is Kidnapping
A type of advanced directive executed by a competent adult that appoints another individual to make medical treatment decisions on his or her behalf in the event that the person making the appointment loses decision-making capacity.
What is durable power of attorney for health care
What is the failure to exercise the level of care that a reasonably prudent person would use in similar circumstances, resulting in unintended harm or injury to another.
What is Negligence
Permission for treatment given by a competent patient after potential risks, benefits, and alternatives to treatment have been explained.
What is informed consent
Someone who has the power or authority to act as the representative of another
Agent
The unauthorized confinement of a person that lasts for an appreciable period of time.
What is False Imprisonment
A medicolegal term relating to certain personnel who by statute or by function have responsibility to provide care
What is Duty to Act
Written documentation giving permission to medical personnel not to attempt in the event of cardiac arrest.
What is DNR
A type of consent in which the patient gives express authorization for provision of care or transport.
What is expressed consent
Set of principles relating to what is morally right or wrong
Ethics
Occurs when false statements either cause a person to be ridiculed or damage the person’s reputation
What is Defamation
Accepted levels of medical care expected by reason of training and profession; determined by legal or professional peer organizations so that patients are not exposed to unnecessary risk or harm.
What is standard of care
Teachers and healthcare providers fall under this title that requires them to notify a qualified professional if there are any signs of child/elderly abuse.
What is Mandatory Reporting Requirements