Chapter 4: Medical, Legal, And Ethical Issues

Question 1

Advance Directive

Answer 1

A written document or oral statement that expresses the wants, needs, and desires of a patient in reference to future medical care

Question 2

Assult

Answer 2

To created another person a fear of immediate bodily harm or invasion of bodily security.

Question 3

Battery

Answer 3

Any act of touching another person without that persons consent

Question 4

Contributory Negligence

Answer 4

Acts committed by plaintiff that contributes to adverse outcomes

Question 5

Civil Suit

Answer 5

An action instituted by a private person or corporation agains another private person or corporation

Question 6

Consent

Answer 6

Agreement by the patient to accept a medical intervention

Question 7

Criminal Prosecution

Answer 7

An action instituted by the government against a privet person for violation of criminal law

Question 8

Damages

Answer 8

Compensation for injury awarded by court

Question 9

Defamation

Answer 9

Intentionally making a false statement through written or verbal communication which injures a person good name or reputation

Question 10

DNR

Answer 10

A type of advance directive that describes which life sustaining procedures should be performed in the even of sudden deterioration in a patients medical condition

Question 11

Due process

Answer 11

A right to a fair procedure for a legal action against a person or agency

Question 12

Duty

Answer 12

Legal obligation of public and certain other AMBULANCE services to respond

Question 13

EMTALA

Answer 13

The emergency medical treatment and active labor act enacted in 1986 to combat the practice of patient dumping. It regulates hospitals that receive Medicare funding and severely fines hospitals or doctors who violate its provisions

Question 14

Ethics

Answer 14

A set of values in society that differentiates right from wrong

Question 15

Expressed Consent

Answer 15

A type of informed consent that occurs when the patient does something either through words or by taking some sort of action that demonstrates permission to provide care

Question 16

False imprisonment

Answer 16

The intentional and unjustified detention of a person agains his or her will

Question 17

Good Samaritan Law

Answer 17

A statue providing limited immunity from liability to person responding voluntarily and in good faith to the aid of an injured person outside the hospital

Question 18

Gross negligence

Answer 18

Negligence that is willful, wanton, intentional or reckless a serious departure from the accepted standards

Question 19

HIPPA

Answer 19

The health insurance portability and accountability act that was enacted in 1996, providing for criminal sanctions as well as for civil penalties for releasing a patients protected herald in a way not authorized by the patient

Question 20

Abandonment

Answer 20

Termination of care for the patient without giving the patient sufficient opportunity to find another suitable health care professional to take over his or her medical treatment