Chapter 5

Question 0

Physicians liability as an employer

Answer 0

Grounds and buildings
Automobiles
Employee safety

Question 1

Liability

Answer 1

Liable or legally responsible for their actions on the job in private lives.

Question 2

Standard of care

Answer 2

Level of performance expected of health care worker carrying out duties

Question 3

Duty of care

Answer 3

Obligations of healthcare workers to patients/non patients

Question 4

Guidelines for health care practice

Answer 4

Practice within scope of training
Use professional tittle with edu and experience.
Maintain confidentiality
Document accurately
Use appropriate ethical and legal guidelines for patient info

Question 5

Confidentiality

Answer 5

Act of holding info in confidence, not to be released to unauthorized individuals

Question 6

Waiving confidentiality

Answer 6

Third party requests medical examination for employment. That party pays for phys. Fees.

Question 7

Unintentional tort of negligence

Answer 7

Any deviation from the accepted medical standard of care causing injury to the patient.

Question 8

4 elements to prove negligence

Answer 8

Duty
Dereliction
Direct cause
Damages

Question 9

Duty

Answer 9

Person charged owed a duty of care to the accuser.

Question 10

Dereliction

Answer 10

The health care provider breached through of care to the patient

Question 11

Direct cause

Answer 11

The breach of duty of care to the patient caused the injury

Question 12

Damages

Answer 12

There is a legally recognizable injury to the patient.

Question 13

Malfeasance

Answer 13

performance of a totally wrongful and unlawful act

Question 14

Misfeasance

Answer 14

Performance of a lawful act and in an illegal I proper manner.

Question 15

Joint commission patient safety

Answer 15

Improve safety of infusion pumps.
Improve effectiveness of clinical alarm systems.
Reduce the risk of health care acquired infections.

Question 16

Res ipsa loquitur

Answer 16

The thing speaks for itself. – negligence is obvious.

Question 17

Joint commission patient safety

Answer 17

Improve patient ID.
Improve effectiveness among caregivers.
Improve safety of using high-alert meds.
Eliminate wrong-site, wrong-patient, wrong-procedure surgery.

Question 18

Cases of res ipsa loquitur

Answer 18

Leaving foreign objects in patients body.
Accidentally burning a patient while anesthetized.
Damaging healthy tissue during surgery.
Causing an infectious infection by using u sterilized instruments

Question 19

5 damage awards

Answer 19

1. General compensatory
2. Special compensatory
3. Consequential
4. Pun fictive
5. Nominant