PPS week Flashcards
Give a definition for the following words:
- Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Justice
- Autonomy: honour the patient’s right to make their own decision
- Beneficence: to help the patient advance his/her good
- Non-maleficence: do no harm
- Justice: to be fair and treat like cases alike
Social Media: What are some positives of social media?
- Gain support from social and professional networks
- Facilitate public access to accurate health information
- Improve patient access to information and have healthy debates
Social Media: What are some negatives of social media?
- Loss of private information
- Patient confidentiality
- Unprofessional online behaviour
- Risk of messages being sent to media or employers
What are some examples of human error?
- Communication breakdown
- Lack of skill
- Poor team work
- System error
- Ignorance
What is leadership?
To motivate people. To purposely and eventually achieve a goal
What are some models you can use to describe leadership?
- Laissez Faire
- Transactional
- Transformational
What is the Laissez Faire Model?
- No supervision.
- Good for minor supervision and when there is a productive well voiced team.
What is the transactional Model?
Supervisional organisation and supervision
Stick and Carrot thing. If you do good you get a carrot. Do bad you get a stick
What is the Transformational Model?
This is a goal orientated vision. Allows you to get the best out of people. This allows outcomes to be achieved
Doctors Problems with leadership
They have lack of knowledge and experience
They loose their autonomy
They loose their clinical changes
Fond on hierarchies
Not used to be told what they have to do.
How many Belbin Team Roles are there?
9
What are some of the Belbin Roles?
The planter, shaper, implementer Specialist team worker
How do things in a clinical situation go wrong?
Human error
Neglect
Poor performance
Misconduct
What is the Swiss Cheese Model ?
The idea of a series of small mistakes have contributed to a big problem
What is Wayne Jowett’s ‘never event’/?
It is a good example of the Swiss cheese model lining up. Causing something really bad to happen
What are the two types of human error?
Unintended human error:
- Lapses: memory failures and losing places (spelling something wrong) or forgetting to prescribe a drug
- Slips: attentional failures, intrusions and omissions (doing something wrong on person)
Intended human error:
- Mistakes
- Violations: i.e speeding
What is the pattern of thought should we do for F1 doctor life?
Pattern recogniser Analytical process initiated Analytical method chose and tested Decison made Check and balance
What is negligence
Failure to take proper care over something leading to a breach of a duty of care to cause harm.
The medical negligence 4 test:
- Was there a duty of care
- Was there a breach in the duty of care
- Did the patient come to harm?
- Did the breach cause the harm?
This allows the civil to claim for damages.
There is a big difference between medical negligence and gross negligence
What is a Bolam and Bolitho test?
The idea that if a patient complains. That the issue that happened needs to be assessed to see if it causes harm.
Money= cost of care, effect on income, pain and suffering.
How do you report an incident?
What is a serious untoward incident?
You do it via a Datix incident form
A serious incident that has caused irreversible harm.
What are 4 different types of screening?
Opportunistic
Communicable
Population
Occupational