Legal terms & Institutions

Question 1

Medical Ethics

Answer 1

conduct yourself with a high degree of personal and professional integrity; your actions must be in line with the core concepts of medical ethics, known as informed consent and Standard of Care

Question 2

Informed Consent

Answer 2

permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits. This is the patient’s agreement to the procedure you are about to perform. Can be verbal, physical, or written

Question 3

Standard of Care

Answer 3

Treatment that is accepted by medical experts as a proper treatment for a certain type of disease and that is widely used by healthcare professionals.

Question 4

Patients Bill of Rights

Answer 4

Written by the American Hospital Association in 1976. Fair treatment and respectful care.
Obtain their medical records, including all notes, diagnoses, and test results
Give consent to any and all medicalurgencyof their case

Question 5

Malpractice

Answer 5

Any level of care that deviates from your institution’s Standard of Care and thereby causes harm to the patient is considered malpractice
If you are not properly trained on how to perform a procedure and you choose to do it anyway, any resulting damage is considered malpractice.
Unintended damage caused by venipuncture could also be classified as malpractice. Hitting a nerve, hitting an artery, or causing extensive tissue damage beyond the expected would also be considered malpractice.
The Four Elements of Medical Malpractice:
Duty of care.
Breach of this duty of care.
Injury caused by the breach.
Resulting damages.

Question 6

Negligence

Answer 6

is an act of carelessness that results in injury.
Negligence is defined as any harm inflicted that could have been avoided based on skill and knowledge.Deviates from accepted standard of care.
In other words, if a phlebotomist had the training to conduct a procedure properly based on an institution’s Standard of Care but did not, that is negligence.
Duty, Deviation, Damages, and Direct Cause are the 4 Ds of negligence. These are the legal requirements that a person has to prove to bring a medical malpractice claim successfully. You can inflict direct harm or indirect harm. Indirect harm could include mislabeling, misidentification, or even selecting the wrong tubes for a test.
Direct harm could include any damage done during venipuncture or a resulting nosocomial infection from improper technique.

Question 7

HIPPA

Answer 7

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge.
1) Privacy Rule, (2) Transactions and Code Sets Rule, (3) Security Rule, (4) Unique Identifiers Rule, and (5) Enforcement Rule.

Question 8

OSHA

Answer 8

With the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for workers by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance.Protects workers from being harmed.

Question 9

Exposure Control Plan

Answer 9

created based on OSHA regulations and requires the organization to evaluate tasks, protocols, and any and all circumstances to which any employee could be exposed to disease or injury. to minimize risk by providing proper training, removing exposure risk, and providing PPE, or personal protection equipment.