(Emergency care) Chapter 4 Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues Flashcards
The EMT is governed by many medical , legal, and ethical, guidelines. This collective set of regulations and ethical considerations may be referred to as ____.
A. Licences
B. NREMT
C. Scope of practice
D. Scope of knowledge
C. Scope of practice
a set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent and limits of the EMT’s job.
____ usually defined as health care that would be expected to be provided by an EMT with similar training when caring for a patient in a similar situation.
A. Scope of practice
B. Expected care
C. Expressed consent
D. Standard of care
D. Standard of care
what is QI?
A. Quality Insurance
B. Qualified Immunity
C. Quantified Improvement
D. Quality Improvement
D. Quality Improvement
Going over calls, critique, and reviews to improve with feed back
____ is permission from a patient for care or other action by the EMT
A. DNA
B. DNI
C. Consent
D. Contract
C. Consent
What is the difference between consent and expressed consent?
A. Consent if from the patient vs expressed concent are adult, legal age, mentally competent to make rational decisions to medical well-being
B. Underage vs of age
C. Minor vs Emancipated Minor
D. Pregnant vs mother
A. Consent if from the patient vs expressed concent are adult, legal age, mentally competent to make rational decisions to medical well-being
What is an example of Implied consent?
A. POA
B. DNR
C. DNI
D. unconscious patient
D. Unconscious patient
can include physically or mentally incapacitated but need emergency care.
If a child care facility calls 911 for a minor. Your crew is unable to obtain contact with parents, and the facility wants them transported. Do you transport the minor to the hospital without parental consent?
A. Wait for parents to pick up child
B. Get a staff member to sign refusal form
C. Take the child to the appropriate facility
D. Leave the child with staff
C. Take the child to approprate facility
If the situation is Emergency you would fall under implied concent. If a note was given to the child care facilty for permission to treat; would follow In loco parentis or In place of parents
In order for a patient to refuse care or transport, several conditions must be fulfilled. Patient must be legally able to consent, must be mentally competent and oriented, must be fully informed, and will be asked to sign a “release” form.
This will limit what?
A. QA QI
B. Save you time on reports
C. Liability
D. None of the above
C. Liability
____ is placing a person in fear of bodily harm.
A. Assault
B. Battery
C. Kidnapping
D. Abandonment
A. Assault
____ causing bodily harm to or restraining a person
A. Assault
B. Battery
C. Kidnapping
D. Abandonment
B. battery
DNI and DNR are signed legal document by the patient and phyician. This is an example of what?
A. last words
B. Advanced directives
C. Future treatments
D. Family wishes
B. advance directives
A legal DNR order is not present and family states the they do not want resusitative measures, what should you do?
A. Follow family wishes and do not resusciate
B. Wait for DNR to arrive
C. Contact medical control
D. Start resusitation
D. Start resusitation
No Valid DNR start resusiation, DNR arrives and family want to continue resusiataion contact medical control to speak to the family, delaying care opens the door for liability. It is better to be sued for doing care than not doing care
____ means that something that should have been done was not done or done incorrectly and caused harm to patient. Failing to duty to act.
A. Advance directive
B. DNR
C. Abandonment
D. Negligence
D. Negligence
____ is the concept that the damages to the patient were the result of action or inaction fo the EMT.
A. Duty to act
B. Good samaritan
C. Proximate causation
D. Tort
C. Proimate Causation
Latin for “the thing speaks for itself”
A. Tort
B. E-pluribus unum
C. Res ipsa loquitur
D. Veni, vidi, vici
C. Res ipsa loquitur
a foundational concept in negligence
Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training is what?
A. Duty to act
B. Moral
C. HIPPA
D. Abandonment
D. Abandonment
A series of laws, in each state designed to provide limited legal and protection for citizens and some health care personnel when they admisitering emergency care?
A. Confidentiality
B. Abandonment
C. Limited liablity act
D. Good Samaritan laws
D. Good Samaritan Laws
Sharing inappropriate or false information via written form is what?
A. Slander
B. Libel
C. Tort
D. HIPPA
B.Libel
Sharing inappropriate or false information via verbal form is what?
A. Slander
B. Libel
C. Tort
D. HIPPA
A. Slander
Law that permits a person to drop off an infant or child to a police, fire, or EMS station. The intent of the law is to protect children who may otherwise be abandoned or harmed.
A. Jim Crow
B. Organ Donor
C. Safe Haven
D. Murphy’s
C. Safe Haven
When dealing with crime scene, EMS must be mindful of what we touch, minimize your impact on the scene, and work with the police. What is the priority when it comes the the crime scene?
A. Tell the police what furniture your moved
B. Pick up evidence on scene and pass it to the police
C. Every thing at the scene is HIPPA and can not talk to the police
D. The first priority is alway patient care
D. The first priority is always patient care
