Transcript HTR Legal and Ethical Study Guide

Health Team Relations
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Define the following torts:
Assault
Battery
Slander
Libel
Invasions of Privacy
Abuse
False Imprisonment
Defamation of Character
Negligence
Malpractice
What do you we mean by “informed consent?”
You can not sign a contract or consent form if you have a legal disability.
List the 4 types of legal disabilities.
Define “Implied consent.”
Define “Expressed consent.”
What type of consent would a signed consent for surgery be?
What is “breach of contract/”
What kind of communication are patient care record and reports?
According to contract law, who would be the principal in: An eye doctor’s office:
A veterinarian's office? A dentist’s office
According to contract law, what would a dental hygienist in a dentist’s office and a nurse in
a doctor’s office be?
Healthcare employee who work to protect the interest of their employers are abiding by
what type of law?
Name the 5 types of information that are exempt (you must report) from privileged
communication laws.
Who is able to look at confidential health records?
How do you correct an error in a patient’s chart.
What is the name of the federal legist ration that requires the establishment of standards
to protect health information?
Which family members of a patient can discuss medical information with the health care
team?
If someone has a terminal illness, what legal document should a person sign if they want
to make sure that a particular family member or friend can make decisions about their
medical care when they no longer can?
What does DNR mean?
What legal document would a patient sign if they wanted to have people know they
wanted to have DNR status?
By law, where can a patient in the hospital get help with preparing advanced directives?
What do employees of hospitals and medical facilities usually follow when dealing with
ethical dilemmas?
A small child needs medical treatment and the parents refuse due to “religious reasons.”
Is this a legal or an ethical dilemma?
Are the following situations ethical or legal dilemmas?
Giving patient information to a neighbor without the patient’s permission.
Giving the wrong medication to a patient
Gossiping about a patient.
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What patient right would be violated if a patient had to wait 3 hours for pain medication after
asking .for it?
What law would a health care facility be complying with if they held an in-service about medical
and legal issues related to advanced directives?
Remember that health care workers adhere to legal responsibilities, ethical codes, and
patient rights to protect the employee, the employer, and the patient!
What are the two ways to correctly identify a patient in the hospital before doing any procedure or
administering any medications or treatments.?
According to professional standards, what is the First Thing that should be done if a patient
refuses to allow a health care worker to perform a procedure?
According to professional standards, how should medication errors be handled?
Know the patient’s rights (in your notebooks)
Know the standards of care. (below)
P Professional Standards
1. Perform procedures you are trained and legally permitted
2. Follow step-by-step methods for tasks
3. Obtain proper identification authorization
4. Observe all safety precautions
5. Confidential information
6. Think before you speak
7. Treat all patients equally
8. Accept no bribes or tips
9. Report and error or mistake immediately
Behave professionally in dress, language, manners, and actions
Review the following information:
What do the following abbreviations mean? VS, prn, po, bid and DNR
Define the following medical terms: thoracentesis, hemiplegia, hysterectomy, and myalgia
What do the following prefixes, suffixes, or root words mean? Cranio-, -emia, erythro, dys
What did Roentgen discover?
Who developed the vaccine for smallpox?
Who wrote the code of ethics still used for physicians today?
What would you buy at an apothecary store in the 17th century?
What disease killed 75% of the population in Europe and Asia during the Middle Ages? (A case
was diagnosed in California this week!)
What is the most common diagnosis among hospice patients?
What kind of hospitals do small towns usually have?
What health care agency would respond if there was an outbreak of bird flu in North Carolina?
What local agency provides immunizations and also does environmental inspections?
Who does Medicare provide insurance for?
What is amount of money called that you must pay before your insurance starts to pay?
What are parts of the communication model?