Anatomical Positions
The medical term for front and back
Anterior & Posterior
a written document signed by the patient and the physician Which documents a patient's wishes if the patient cannot make his or her own decisions
Advance directive
Protection of a patient's personal information
Confidentiality
A legal responsibility of some individuals to provide medical care.
Duty to Act
legal concepts that assume a patient with consent to receive emergency care if he or she were physically able or old enough to do so.
Implied Consent
The medical term for closer and farther.
Proximal & Distal
The value of Ethics in decision-making
Applied Ethics
The patient's ability to understand the emergency medical responders questions and decision-making
Competence
A legal document that specifies a patient's wishes in his or her care.
Durable power of attorney for healthcare.
acting in such a way that the goal is only to help the patient and that all actions are for that purpose.
In good faith
The medical term for closer to and away from the midline.
Medical & Lateral
When a person continuously touches someone was not give them their consent to touch them.
Battery
permission to provide care
Consent
permission to receive emergency care granted by a competent adult verbally, non verbally, or through gestures.
expressed consent
obligation to act in a particular way in accordance with the law.
Legal Obligations
Body erect, feet slightly apart, Palms facing forward, thumbs point away from body
Anatomical Positions
A crime that occurs when a person tries to physically harm another and the person under attack feels immediately threatened.
Assault
A document that states a patient's will to not be resuscitated
DNR do not resuscitate
laws that apply in some circumstances to protect people who provide emergency care without accepting anything in return.
good Samaritan laws
A type of advance directive that outlines the patient's wishes about certain kinds of medical treatments and procedures that prolong life.
Living Will
Anatomical positions face down and face up.
Prone & Supine
Leaving your patient that is ill or injured without handing them to a medical professional first
Abandonment
Responders must be cautious of their actions so that they don't cause any further injuries to the patient
Do not harm
a person named in a health care directive or durable power of an attorney for health care who can make medical decisions on someone else's behalf
health care proxy
A situation in which a professional fails to provide a reasonable quality of car, resulting in harm of patient.
Malpractice