Patient Care Flashcards
What is an assault?
The threat of injury
Can an exam be completed if there is no order?
No
What is informed consent?
The patient has been informed of the procedure, any alternative procedure that could be performed and the benefits and risks of the procedure. Only the patient can give an informed consent for a procedure.
What is a consent?
A voluntary approval from a person to be examined, treated or subjected to any test undertaken upon them.
What is a written consent?
An official binding agreement signed either on paper or digitally by parties involved, which is legally recognized.
What is implied consent?
This consent is implied by your actions. Example, by walking into an ER a person is consenting they want treatment.
What is HIPPA and what does it mean?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)-health care workers must provide privacy and security of patient information in all forms: verbal, written or electronic.
What is a patients Bill of Rights?
A list of the patient’s rights promulgated (widely known) by the American Hospital Association. It offers guidance and protection to patient by stating the responsibilities that the hospital and staff have toward them and their families during hospitalization, but it is not a legally binding document.
What does “DNR” mean?
“Do no resuscitate” sometimes this is also referred to as a “No Code”. This is a legal written order or legal form to respect the wishes of a patient.
What is a living will?
A legal document that sets our the medical care in an individual. This states what the patient wants or does not want if they were to become incapable of communicating their wishes.
What is battery?
A harmful of offensive touching of another.
________ Is a failure to exercise the care that reasonably prudent person would exercise in like circumstances.
Negligence
What does the word malpractice mean?
Medical malpractice is professionals negligence by act or omission by a health care provider in which the treatment provided falls below the accepted standard of practice int he medical community and causes injury or death to the patient, with most cases involving medical error.
What are some strategies to improve patient understanding?
Showing the patient what you are telling them, explain in detail but not using medical jargon, answering all questions, asking the patient if they understand the instructions.
_________ is being aware of different religious beliefs and taking them into consideration if your patient has one of these beliefs.
Cultural Diversity
What does patient education mean?
explain the complete procedure in generalized terms in order to help your patient better understand exams.
_________ is a legal doctrine that states that in may circumstances an employer is responsible for the actions of employees performed within the course of their employment.
Respondent Superior
________ is the common law of negligence, the doctrine of states that the elements of duty of care and breach can be sometimes inferred from the very nature of an accident or other outcome, even without direct evidence of how any defendant behaved.
Resipsa loquitur
