Chapter 4 Legal and Regulatory

Question 1

Abandonment

Answer 1

Terminating care when it is still needed and desired by the patient and without ensuring that appropriate care continues to be provided by another qualified healthcare provider

Question 2

Administrative law

Answer 2

A branch of law that deals with rules, regulations, orders, and decisions created by governmental agencies

Question 3

Advance Directive

Answer 3

A document in which a competent person gives instructions to be follwed regarding his or her healthcare in the event the person later becomes incapacitated and unable to make or communicate those decisions to others.

Question 4

Assault

Answer 4

A threat of imminent bodily harm to another person by someone with the obvious ability to carry out the threat

Question 5

Battery

Answer 5

Touching or contact with a person without their consent

Question 6

Breach of duty

Answer 6

Violation by thee defendant of the standard of care applicable to the circumstances

Question 7

Case law

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Interpretations of constitutional, statutory, or administartice law made by the courts; also referred to as common law or jundge-made law

Question 8

Causation

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In a negligence case, the negligence of the defendant must have caused or created the harm sustained by the plaintiff; also reffered to as proximate cause

Question 9

Certification

Answer 9

recognition of minimal competency in certain skills or tasks

Question 10

Chemical Retraints

Answer 10

agents such as sedatives that can suppress a patients neurologic and/or motor capabilities and reduce the threat to the paramedic; also known as pharmacologic restraints

Question 11

Civil law

Answer 11

a branch of law that deals with torts (civil wrongs) committed by one individual, organization, or group against another

Question 12

Concurrent medical direction

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Consultation with a physician or other advanced healthcare professional by telephone, radio, or other electronic means, permitting the physician and paramedic to decide together on the best course of action in the delivery of patient care

Question 13

Confidentiality

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Protection of patient info. in any form and the disclosure of that info. only as needed for patient care or otherwise permitted ny law

Question 14

Consent

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Permission

Question 15

Contributory negligence

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An injuried plaintiff;s failure to exercise due care that, along with the defendants negligence, contributed to the injury

Question 16

Criminal law

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A branch of law in which the federal, state, local government prosecutes individuals on behalf of society for violating laws designd to safegaurd society

Question 17

Damages

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Compensable harm or other losses incurred by an injured pary (plaintiff) because of the negligence of the defendant

Question 18

Defamation

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The publication of falses info. about a person that tends to blacken the person’s character or injure his or her reputation

Question 19

Defendant

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The person or institution being sued; also called the respondent

Question 20

DNR

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Do not resuscitate orders

Question 21

Due process

Answer 21

the constitutional guarantee that laws and legal proceedings must be fair regarding an individual’s legal rights

Question 22

Duty to act

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a legal obligation (created by statute, contrast, or voluntarily) to provide services

Question 23

Emancipated minor

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A self-supporting minor. this status often depends on the minor receiving an actual court order of emancipation

Question 24

Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act

EMTALA

Answer 24

a federal law that requires a hospital to providde a medical screening examination to anyone who comes to that hospital and to provide stabilizing treatment to anyone with an emergency medical condition, without considering the patients ability to pay

Question 25

Expressed consent

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Permission diven by a patient of his or her responsible decisionmaker either verbally or through some physical expression of consent

Question 26

False imprisonment

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Confinement or restraint of a person againts his or her will or without appropriate legal justification

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Immunity

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Protection from legal liabilty in accordance with applicable laws

Question 28

Implied consent

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The permission that a patient who is ill or injured and unable to give sonsent for any reason would agree to the delivery of emergency healthcare necessitated by his or her condition

Question 29

Intentional tort

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A wrong in which the defendant meant to cause the harmful action

Question 30

Invasion of privacy

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Disclosure or publication of personal or private facts about a person to a person or persons not authorized to receive such information

Question 31

Involuntary consent

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The rendering of care to a person under specific legal suthority, even if the patient ddoe not consent to the care

Question 32

Jurisprudance

Answer 32

The theory and philosophy of law

Question 33

Liability

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The legal responsibility of a party for the consequences of his or her acts or omissions

Question 34

Libel

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False statements about a person made in writting that blacken the person’s character or injure his or her reputation

Question 35

Licensure

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Recognition of minimal competency and the completion of precribed education or training in a profession or occupation

Question 36

Malfeasance

Answer 36

Performing a wrongful act

Question 37

Medical direction

Answer 37

Physician oversight of paramedic practice; also called medical control

Question 38

Medical Practice Act

Answer 38

Legislation that governs the practice of medicine; may perscribe how and to what extent a physician may delegate authority to a paramedic to perform medical acts; varies from state to state