Med/legal & Ethical Issues Flashcards
Advance directive
Instructions written in advance of event, DNR
Assault
Placing a person in fear of bodily harm
Battery
Causing bodily harm or restraining a person
Confidentiality
To keep all patient privacy unless needed to be released to law enforcement or other medical workers
Consent
Permission from patient for care
DNR
Do not resuscitate
Duty to act
Obligation to provide care to a patient
Expressed consent
Consent given by a legal aged adult who is competent to make rational decisions regarding their medical well being
Good Samaritan laws
Series of law, varying state to state, stating protection for patients and healthcare workers when administering emergency care
HIPPA
The healthcare portability and accountability act. Patient privacy
Implied consent
Assumed consent when patient or guardian can not give consent due to not being there or unconsciousness
In loco parentis
Person in place of parents that can give consent for care of a child when parents aren’t present
Liability
Being held legally responsible
Libel
False injuries info in written form
Negligence
Failure to act properly in providing of emergency care which resulted in harm of patient
Physician order for life-sustaining treatment (POLST)
The wishes of the patients care for resuscitation, artificial feeding, medication, etc, stated by the medical director
Res Iowa loquitur
Latin term, “the thing speaks for itself”
Safe haven law
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
Slander
False injurious info stated verbally
Standard of care
Care that should be provided at a level equal to any other EMT of the same level that would provide this care
Tort
A civil, not a criminal, offense. Usually negligence
Abandonment
Leaving a patient after providing care but before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater training
