Orientation
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What is patient first?
The most common type of patient care errors
What are unintentional torts?
More people die annually from these than from car accidents
What are medical errors?
What is good for the individual and for society
What is Ethics?
The creator of the Model of Human Development
Who is Abraham Maslow?
The stage of death that includes irreversible loss of cardiac and respiratory function.
What is cardiac death?
Organization that administers the CST certification exam
What is the NBSTSA?
Placing of information into a patient's medical record or chart
What is documentation?
Group that makes an effort to collect and use data to decrease the chance of harm to patients and staff
Who is risk management?
Guide for ethical decision making
What are morals?
Love, intimacy, friendship, affiliation
What are Social Needs?
The stage of grief where the patient is unable to accept the situation
What is bargaining?
Provides supportive measures such as fluid and airway management
Who is the anesthesiologist?
The legal doctrine involving failure by the RN and CST to do proper surgical counts resulting in retention of a foreign object
What is the doctrine of borrowed servant?
These two things contribute to implementation of controls, and serves as legal documentation
What are reporting and documentation?
Principles such as benevolence, trustworthiness, and honesty
What are morals?
The need to fulfill what the individual believes is purposeful
What is Self-actualization?
A type of procedure intended to provide the patient with symptom relief and avoidance of pain
What is a palliative procedure?
He was known for ligating arteries and cauterizing bleeds with irons and oils
Who is Pare?
First federal act to establish privacy standards to protect patients' medical records and other health-related information
What is HIPAA?
Set of written instructions that address the right of an incapacitated patient to self-determination
What is advance directive?
What is licensure?
Stress can affect a patient's _________ and ________
What are vitals and wound healing?
"easy death" or "painless inducement of quick death"
What is euthanasia?
Person who would treat diseases of the breast, hepatobiliary, and gastrointestinal system
Who is a general surgeon?
Describes any civil wrong independent of a contract and provides a remedy in the form of an action for damages
What is a tort?
This is typically covered by facility insurance policies to protect employees who commit negligent acts
What is malpractice insurance?
Identifies knowledge and skills to provide effective and reliable services
What is Scope of Practice?
This person defines stress as "a nonspecific response of the body to demand"
Who is Hans Selye?
The act that requires medical facilities to inform patients of their right to choose the type and extent of medical care
What is the Patient Self-Determination Act?
Non-profit organization that develops standards and accredits healthcare organizations
What is the Joint Commission?
Primum non nocere
What is 'above all, do no harm'?
Requires hospitals and manufacturers of devices to cooperate in implementing methods of device tracking
What is the safe medical device act?
Provides guidelines for the surgical technologist, established by the AST
What is a code of conduct?
Needs related to the identification and understanding of one's place in an organized universe
What are psychsocialneeds?
What is a living will?