Chapter 2
Anesthesia record, history and physical, and interdepartmental communication is part of the:
Surgical patient's medical record
Set of written instructions for an incapacitated patient's right to self determination:
Advance Directive
Most common types of patient-care errors committed by operating room personnel, including negligence and malpractice, are categorized as:
Unintentional Torts
A provider sharing patient information with a member of the direct care team
Situation is considered an example of a potential ethical dilemma
Assurance of safe and individual professional behavior by the CST or CSFA is a well-developed, unyielding:
Surgical Conscience
Ultimately responsible for obtaining a written, informed consent:
Surgeon
Keeping thorough, accurate, and legal records of a patient's medical care:
Documentation
The "Best Medicine: in healthcare is:
Prevention
Term identifying knowledge and skills required for a profession and describes a health care provider's core obligation and accountability, based on education, experience, and credentialing is:
Scope of Practice
MOST applicable in a case involving failure by the RN and CST to complete the required surgical counts resulting in retention of a foreign object and the surgeon being found not liable:
Doctrine of the borrowed servant
"Do not use" created in 2004 by this agency:
The Joint Commission
The American Hospital Association replaced its "Patient's Bill of Rights" with the:
Patient Care Partnership
This individual has "autonomy" when it comes to consent:
Patient
Examples of individual credentialing:
certification, licensure, and registration
MOST applicable in a case involving injury to a patient as a result of a hospital employee's lack of proper training or credentialing:
Doctrine of Corporate Negligence
Report sent to Risk Management to decrease the change of harm to patients, staff, or damage to hospital equipment:
Incident Report
Ensure portability even with preexisting conditions, protect patient privacy, and reduce health care fraud and abuse are broad objectives of:
HIPPA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Describes symptoms of behaviors, expectations, and morals composing standards of conduct for professionals:
Ethics
CAAHEP: Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
MOST likely in cases involving tort law and operating room personnel:
Civil
Surgical patient would be legally authorized to sign an informed surgical consent, based on medical practice acts and state law:
an emancipated sixteen-year-old minior
A wrong that may be intentional or unintentional:
Tort
Describes the principles the principles such as benevolence, trustworthiness, and honesty for the care and well-being of others:
Morals
The CST and CSFA examinations are administered by:
NBSTSA
Patient suffered a burn as a result of improper application of ESU dispersive electrode pad, the individual team member responsible may be found guilty in a lawsuit of:
Negligence