Category 1
A serious crime punishable by more than a year in prison
felony
The first federal law to specifically deal with the privacy of health care records was
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
According to the Uniform Determination of Death Act, which of the following is a criteria for death?
Entire brain ceases to function
A surgeon removes the wrong kidney from a patient. The patient can sue under what of the following legal doctrines?
Res ipsa loquitur
A hospital maintains medical records on all patients treated in the hospital. Who owns the information in the hospital records?
The patient
A pledge for physicians that remains influential today is
Hippocratic oath
The legal responsibility of competent adults for their own acts
liability
What agency registers physicians for the writing of prescriptions of controlled substances?
Drug Enforcement Administration
A medical order, written by a physician, that instructs health care providers about emergency care for a patient when the patient has stopped breathing is known as a(an)
Do not resuscitate (DNR)
Laws applying specifically to the practice of medicine in a certain state are called
Medical Practice Acts
Theorists believed that human behavior is based on specific human needs that must often be met in a specific order
Abraham Maslow
A nurse stops by the scene of an auto accident. She helps a conscious patient to remain calm and provides basic first aid to the patient. The patient later sues the nurse for malpractice. What state law will probably be used in the nurse's defense?
Good Samaritan Act
The power of the states to initiate public health statutes is inferred from which amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
Tenth Amendment
OSHA standards for medical settings and health care workers are often influenced by, or associated with, guidelines issued by
CDC
Rules of conduct
laws
Which agency tests and approves prescription drugs before releasing them for public use?
Food and Drug Administration
The action that causes bodily harm to someone
battery
Which HIPAA standard requires providers and their business associates to put in place policies and procedures that ensure privacy of the health record?
Standard 2
Party against whom criminal or civil charges have been filed
defendant
Ethical implications of biological research methods and results
bioethics
Party filing the civil charges
Plaintiff
A physician working in an emergency room is obligated to treat all the patients who come through the door. This is an example of which of the following concepts?
duty of care
The human reaction to loss
grief
A percentage of the fee-for-services provided that the patient pays
coinsurance
The open threat of bodily harm
assault