Legal Terminology
An infraction, violation or failure to perform
What is a Breach of Duty?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What is HIPAA?
A healthcare worker's right to perform blood collection on the patient since the patient has signed hospital documents for having medical procedures.
What is Informed Consent?
Statute of limitations for professional negligence in most states in years.
What is 1-3 years?
Issue resulting from lack of use of biohazard waste containers.
What us Equipment use?
A civil wrong committed against a person or a person's property
What is a Tort?
American Hospital Association
What is AHA?
The legal concept referring to the voluntary permission by a patient to allow touching, examination, and/or treatment by a health care provider.
What is Implied Consent?
The best way to defend against legal claims from a patient.
What is a complete and accurate medical record with laboratory testing results?
Issue to result from not monitoring patient in an appropriate, timely manner or locing in the blood collection chair for the duration of the blood collection procedure.
What is failure to ensure patient's safety?
Knowing that a statement is false or making a statement with reckless disregard of the truth.
What is Malice?
Protected Health Information
What is PHI?
This explains the full nature of the research and any risks and benefits to the participant.
What is Full Disclosure?
To examine the witness before the trial.
What is Discovery?
Issue arising from failure to document information legible, spelled correctly, and reporting to direct supervisor.
What is Reporting of incidents?
Court order for a person and documents
What is a Subpoena?
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
What is CMS?
The patient needing informed consent of their parents or legal guardians for medical care.
Who are Minors?
The testimony of a witness that has been recorded in a written legal format.
What is Deposition?
Issue resulting from discrimination of treatment, nosocomial transmission of infections, or breach of confidentiality.
What is testing for patients with HIV or other infections disease?
Deliberate deception or cheating either by conduct or words.
What is Fraud?
What is TJC, The Joint Commission?
Specific test needing informed consent obtained prior to testing which includes an explanation of the test, potential uses of the test, and testing limitations and the meaning for the results.
What is HIV testing?
What is Respondeat Superior?
Lack of proper technique and equipment, not following procedure, or out of date collection skills without continued education or evaluations well documented.
What are Improper treatment and performance of treatments?