Chapter 3 Flashcards
What type of lawsuit will begin if the government decides to take action against a person on behalf of a society in general
Criminal
An EMT who takes his time to maintain mastery of skills that are used infrequently would be said to have a good
Ethic
If an EMT has a duty to act but does not provide the standard of care charges may be brought against the EMT in a court of law for what
Negligence
If an EMT where to release information about how intoxicated a patient was on to a social media network site this could be considered
Libel
If you bypass an appropriate hospital based on patient’s ability to pay You and the EMS agency could be held in violation of
EMTALA
Solving immunity is also known as
Governmental immunity
Your partner has been complaining about back problems lately you’re concerned that your partner will not be able to lift appropriately if needed but should you as an EMT do in the situation
Notify your supervisor as your partner may not be able to perform safe lifting at work
I have an EMT with the right false damaging or misleading information on a run report that EMT could be charged with
Libel
You arrive to a scene for a DOA you discover the patient has apparently committed suicide the EMT has a duty to
Notify the Coroners office
An adult patient’s consent to treatment may occur and one of three ways expressed implied or
Informed
HiPpa
Limits the discussion of patient specific information only with individuals with homemade is medically necessary to do so
An EMT can still be held liable and not protected by a good Samaritan law if his actions demonstrate
Gross negligence
You’re called to the scene of a 45-year-old man who is unresponsive you can legally begin treatment because of
Implied consent
Well you are assisting with the education at a local EMT training class student asks you what the basic definition is for standard of care. How would you respond?
Standard of care is the minimum acceptable level of care in a community
A type of immunity that protects government run EMS services From being sued by persons they treat is called
Sovereign immunity
A patient is injured but refuses to be transported by ambulance he has the capacity to make rational decisions and you have exhausted all avenues to convince the patient to be transported you still feel the need he should go. This situation can be referred to as
And ethical and moral conflict
You have a patient in labor and nurse tells you that you need to take the patient to a larger hospital 50 miles away and she’s not going to except the patient. The nurse at the hospital could be subject to legal action under which of the following laws
EMTALA
Among the source is used to define individual EMT scope of practice is the
EMS system’s medical director
Your chance putting a victim from the experience you do not think he will survive transport. You know the victim is an organ donor you can help facilitate these wishes by
Calling ahead and notifying the receiving facility at the patients organ donor status As this may speed up the process and potentially harvest my organs
Your EMT partner documented more hours on his time sheet and he actually worked it can be said that this EMT is demonstrating poor
Morals
