Risk
FDA's authority to regulate medical devices.
What is the Safe Medical Device Act?
A civil wrong.
What is a tort?
Defines what is good for the individual and society.
What is Ethics?
Departure from the standard of care.
What is negligence?
Current edition # of NBSTSA's Core Curriculum for Surgical Technology.
What is 7th?
A pause immediately prior to incision that includes active communication among all relevant members of the surgical team.
What is the "time-out"?
The actual act of harmful or unwarranted contact
What is battery?
The guidelines for ethical decision making.
What are morals/moral principles?
Consent that covers routine services.
What is general consent?
A patient safety event that results in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm.
What is a sentinel event?
Number of signatures required for surgical consent.
What is 3?
Replaced the Patient Bill of Rights.
What is the Patient Care Partnership?
Designated area utilized to prevents sharps injuries.
What is the neutral zone?
A set of written instructions that address the right of an incapacitated patient to self-determination.
What is an advance directive?
Patient misidentification.
What is an unintentional tort?
Provides professional guidelines for the surgical technologist.
What is the AST Code of Ethics?
The services for which the provider is held accountable based on education, experience, credentialing, and licensure.
What is scope of practice?
First federal act to establish privacy standards to protect patient medical records.
What is HIPAA?
The thing speaks for itself.
What is Res ipsa loquitur?
May delegate intraoperative tasks to the surgical technologist.
Who is the surgeon?
A court order to appear and testify or produce required documents.
What is a subpoena?