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Chapter 4 Terminology Flashcards

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Leaving a patient after care has been initiated, and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training

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Abandonment

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A DNR order instructions written in advance of an event

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Advance directive

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Placing a person in fear of bodily harm

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Assault

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Causing bodily harm to or restraining a person

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Battery

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The obligation not to reveal information obtain about a patient except the other healthcare professionals involved in the patient’s care, or under subpoena, or in a court of law, or when the patient has signed a release of confidentiality

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Confidentiality

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Permission from the patient for care, or other action by the EMT

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Consent

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The location where crime has been committed, or any place that evidence relating to a crime may be found

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Crime scene

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A legal document usually signed by both patient and physician which states that the patient has a terminal illness and does not wish to prolong life through resuscitative efforts

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Do not resuscitate (DNR) order

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An obligation to provide care to a patient

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Duty to act

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Regarding a social system, or social or professional expectations for applying principles of right and wrong

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Ethical

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Consent given by adults who are legal age, and mentally competent to make a rational decision with regard to the medical well-being

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Expressed consent

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A series of laws, varying by state designed to provide limited legal protection for citizens and some healthcare personnel, when they are administering emergency care

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Good Samaritan laws

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The Health Insurance , Portability and Accountability Act, a federal law for taking the privacy of patient specific healthcare information and providing the patient with control over how this information is used and distributed

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HIPPA

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The consent it is presumed a patient or patient’s parent or guardian would give if they could, such as for an unconscious patient or a child whose parents cannot be contacted when care is needed

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Implied consent

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Literally ‘ in place of a parent’, indicating a person who may give consent for care of a child when the parents are not present or able to give consent

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In loco parentis

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Being held legally responsible

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Liability

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False injuries information in written form

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Libel

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Regarding person, standards, or principles of right and wrong

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Morals

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A finding that there was a failure to act properly, in a situation in which there was a duty to act that needed care as would reasonably be expected of the EMT was not provided, and that harm was caused to the patient as a result

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Negligence

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A person who has completed illegal document that allows the donation of organs and tissues, in the event of death

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Organ donor

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Physicians order that state, not only the patient’s wishes regarding resuscitation attempts but also the patient’s wishes regarding artificial feeding antibiotics and other life sustaining care if the persons unable to state the person desires later

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Physicians Orders for Life-Sustaining
Treatment (POLST)

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A Latin term meaning ‘the thing speaks for itself’

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res ipsa loquitur

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A lot of permits, a person to drop off an infant or child at a police, fire, or EMS station to deliver the infant or child to any available public safety personnel the intent of the law is to protect children who may otherwise be abandoned or harmed

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Safehaven law

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A set of regulations and ethical considerations that the final scope or extent and limits of the EMTs job

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Scope of practice

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False injurious, information stated verbally

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Slander

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For an EMT providing care for a specific patient in a specific situation the care that would be expected to be provided by an EMT with similar training when caring for a patient in a similar situation

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Standard of care

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A civil, not criminal offense, and action, or injury, caused by negligence from which a lawsuit may arise

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Tort

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