Standards of Conduct

Question 1

Affidavit

Answer 1

Voluntary statement sworn to be true before an authority.

Question 2

Allegation

Answer 2

A statement one expects to be true

Question 3

Bona fide

Answer 3

In good faith or innocently

Question 4

Case Law

Answer 4

All legal decisions reported on a given legal subject

Question 5

Inatrogenic Injury

Answer 5

An injury resulting from the activity of health care professionals

Question 6

Larceny

Answer 6

Taking another’s property without consent

Question 7

Common Law

Answer 7

Principles that have evolved and continue to evolve on the basis of court decisions

Question 8

Statutory Law

Answer 8

Any law prescribed by the action of a legislature

Question 9

Malpractice

Answer 9

professional misconduct that results in harm to another; negligence of a professional

Question 10

Negligence

Answer 10

Omission (not doing) or commission (doing) of an act that a reasonable and prudent individual would not do under the same conditions (“departure from the standard of care”)

Question 11

Perjury

Answer 11

Intentionally providing false testimony under oath

Question 12

Subpoena

Answer 12

Court order to appear and testify or produce required documents

Question 13

Tort

Answer 13

A civil wrong; may be intentional or unintentional

Question 14

Aeger primo

Answer 14

“The patient first”

Question 15

Doctrine of borrowed servant

Answer 15

The one controlling or directing the employee has greater responsibility than the one paying the employee

Question 16

Doctrine found corporate negligence

Answer 16

A health institution may be found negligent for failing to ensure that an acceptable level of patient care was provided

Question 17

Doctrine of foreseeability

Answer 17

The ability to reasonably anticipate that harm or injury may result because of certain acts or omission

Question 18

Doctrine of person liability

Answer 18

Each person is responsible for his or her own conduct

Question 19

Doctrine of the reasonably prudent person

Answer 19

A person should perform an action as would any reasonable person or ordinary prudence

Question 20

Primum non nocere

Answer 20

“Above all, do no harm”

Question 21

Res ipsa loquitur

Answer 21

“The thing speaks for itself”

Question 22

Respondeat superior

Answer 22

“Let the master answer” (employer is responsible for the actions of his or her employees)

Question 23

Assault

Answer 23

An act that cause another person to fear that he or she will be touched in an offensive manner

Question 24

Battery

Answer 24

The actual act of harmful or unwarranted contact with a person

Question 25

Defamation

Answer 25

Slander (oral statement) or libel (written statement) that damages a persons reputation or name

Question 26

False imprisonment

Answer 26

illegal detention of a person without consent (use of restraints)

Question 27

Intentional infliction of emotional distress

Answer 27

Disparaging remarks made about a patient that results in emotional distress

Question 28

Invasion of property

Answer 28

Disclosure of private information concerning a patient or photographing a patient without consent

Question 29

How many people are required for consent

Answer 29

Two people; the recipient of an action and the one performing the action (patient and surgeon OR parent of a minor and surgeon)

Question 30

Express consent

Answer 30

Direct verbal or written statement granting permission for treatment

Question 31

Implied consent

Answer 31

Consent in which circumstances exist that would lead a reasonable health-care provider to believe that the person had given consent even though no direct or verbally expressed words of consent had been given

Question 32

Who’s responsible for securing written, informed surgical consent

Answer 32

The Surgeon

Question 33

Surgical consent in the case of an emergency

Answer 33

Telephone, Telegram, Agreement of two consulting physicians not including the operating surgeon, Administrative consent

Question 34

What does HIPAA stand for

Answer 34

Health Insurance Portability an Accountability Act

Question 35

When did HIPAA take place

Answer 35

April 14, 2003