Med/legal & Ethical Issues

Question 1

Advance directive

Answer 1

Instructions written in advance of event, DNR

Question 2

Assault

Answer 2

Placing a person in fear of bodily harm

Question 3

Battery

Answer 3

Causing bodily harm or restraining a person

Question 4

Confidentiality

Answer 4

To keep all patient privacy unless needed to be released to law enforcement or other medical workers

Question 5

Consent

Answer 5

Permission from patient for care

Question 6

DNR

Answer 6

Do not resuscitate

Question 7

Duty to act

Answer 7

Obligation to provide care to a patient

Question 8

Expressed consent

Answer 8

Consent given by a legal aged adult who is competent to make rational decisions regarding their medical well being

Question 9

Good Samaritan laws

Answer 9

Series of law, varying state to state, stating protection for patients and healthcare workers when administering emergency care

Question 10

HIPPA

Answer 10

The healthcare portability and accountability act. Patient privacy

Question 11

Implied consent

Answer 11

Assumed consent when patient or guardian can not give consent due to not being there or unconsciousness

Question 12

In loco parentis

Answer 12

Person in place of parents that can give consent for care of a child when parents aren’t present

Question 13

Liability

Answer 13

Being held legally responsible

Question 14

Libel

Answer 14

False injuries info in written form

Question 15

Negligence

Answer 15

Failure to act properly in providing of emergency care which resulted in harm of patient

Question 16

Physician order for life-sustaining treatment (POLST)

Answer 16

The wishes of the patients care for resuscitation, artificial feeding, medication, etc, stated by the medical director

Question 17

Res Iowa loquitur

Answer 17

Latin term, “the thing speaks for itself”

Question 18

Safe haven law

Answer 18

The law that people can drop off of babies or child’s at police dept, EMS stations, fire dept, or any other available public safety personnel

Question 19

Slander

Answer 19

False injurious info stated verbally

Question 20

Standard of care

Answer 20

Care that should be provided at a level equal to any other EMT of the same level that would provide this care

Question 21

Tort

Answer 21

A civil, not a criminal, offense. Usually negligence

Question 22

Abandonment

Answer 22

Leaving a patient after providing care but before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater training