Ethics

Question 1

4 exceptions to informed consent

Answer 1

1) Emergency
2) Patient waiver
3) Incompetence

4) Therapeutic privilege
- unconscious
- confused

Question 2

Describe a sentinel event

Answer 2

Any unanticipated event in a healthcare setting resulting death or serious physical/psychological injury to a patient(s), not related to the natural course of the patient’s illness

**ie) Operating on the wrong hip

Question 3

What is a latent error?

Answer 3

Hidden issues within individual health care systems that contribute to adverse events

**ie) Inadequate staffing, handwritten prescription which results in prescribing the wrong medication, giving the wrong dose of medicine despite the proper dose being on the bottle

Question 4

Describe error of commission versus omissions

Answer 4

COMMISSION: An act is done that should not have been done

OMISSION: An act should have been done, but was not

Question 5

3 examples of a way a minor can be emancipated

Answer 5

1) Serving in the military
2) Married
3) Older than 13 and taking care of themselves (ie: living alone)

Question 6

What is an active error?

Answer 6

Occurring at the point of interface between humans and a complex system

**ie) Administering the wrong drug or dose