Chapter 2
Specimen loss, mislabeling, and improper preparation for laboratory analysis are examples of:
Negligence
Identified in 1990 as causing more deaths in the US than car accidents, AIDS, and breast cancer combined:
Medical Errors
Five stages of Grief:
denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Religion typically prohibits its followers from receiving blood transfusions:
Jehovah's Witness
Voluntary and informed act in which a party gives permission to another party to "touch":
Consent
Agency that focuses on patient and worker safety in the workplace:
Care prescribed to a terminal patient to improve their quality of life:
Palliative
Category of death most likely generates high emotional trauma for family members and a need to follow protocols for preservation of evidence in the preoperative period:
Accidental
Organ or tissue that can be recovered after death or after a patient has already been removed from life support:
Bone
Fail to monitor and protect a medical patient from falling could be charged with:
Abandonment
Purpose of the neutral zone is:
Prevent sharps injuries during surgical procedures
Term represents the positive physical and psychological state of a patient:
Eustress
Term for a set of therapies that preserves a patient's life when body systems are not functioning sufficiently:
Life Support
Religion believes in reincarnation and that the rebirth is influenced by the previous death experience:
Buddhism
"Time Out" would be located in this portion of the patient's record:
Inoperative Record
Agency that regulates medical devices under the Safe Medical Device Act:
FDA: Food and Drug Administration
Circumstances where a hospital may rescind (invalidate) a "Do Not Resuscitate/Do Not Incubate" Order
Patient must undergo a surgical procedure
Rules requires medical facilities to inform patients of their rights to choose the types and extent of medical care available and their legal right to advance directives:
Patient Self-Determination Act
Denial, rationalization, regression, and repression are common forms of:
Coping
Identifying and reporting unsafe conditions and hazards is MOST critical for:
Risk Management
CST performs tasks under the broad delegatory authority of the:
Surgeon
Maslow's research produced a hierarchical structure of:
Human Progression Needs
Level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is the pinnacle and can be accomplished only when all other needs are met:
Self-actualization
Needs of patient is related to the identification and understanding of an individual's place in the universe and may include their views on theology, philosophy, or mythology:
Spiritual