Class notes 1
Confidentiality includes (3 responses)
Patient History
Assessment findings
Treatment -provided
A health care provider usually avoids legal exposure if he or she acts...
in good faith
(additional response- according to an appropriate standard care)
Advance Directives: DNR
Do not Resuscitate
Permission to render care
Consent
a body part removed
decapitation
What should you do before leaving a scene where a patient has refused care (4 responses)
Encourage the individual again to allow care
Ask the individual to sign a refusal of care form
A witness is valuable
Document the refusal
The EMT is often the first link in the chain of...
prehospital care
the lower organ of a woman or female where offspring are conceived
womb
the patient acknowledges he or she wants you to provide care or transport
Expressed Consent
stiffening
Rigor mortis
POLST (what does this mean)
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
If a patient appears confused or delusional, you cannot...
you cannot assume that the decision to refuse is an informed refusal.
NEMSIS
National EMS information System
Implied Consent
applies to patients who are unconscious otherwise incapable of making an informed decision
Decomposition
Putrefaction
MOLST (what does it stand for)
Medical orders for Life-sustaining Treatment
Forcible restrain is sometimes needed for
combative patients
Failure of the EMT to provide the same care as another EMT with the same training is called
Negligence
applies to patients who are mentally ill, in behvaral crisis or developmental delayed
Involuntary consent
Dependent Lividty
Blood settling
Who determines the cause of death?
Physician
Suicidal patients should not be regarded as...
having a normal mental capacity.
The unauthorized confinement of a person is called
False Imprisonment
Parents and legal guardian gives consent
Minors and Consent
Absence of eye movement, no blood pressure
Presumptive signs of death