Test for thursday Flashcards
Negligent act of administering an injection incorrectly
Can lead to serious harm and may constitute medical malpractice, potentially leading to legal action.
Offinciant method of preventing the spread of infection in a laboratory
Hand hygiene, personal protective equipment (PPE) (gloves, gowns, masks, eye protection), and proper cleaning and disinfection of surfaces and equipment.
In what illness would you see a decreased level in hemoglobin?
Anemia
Fraud
An intentional act of deceit designed to gain an unfair advantage or cause harm, often involving misrepresentation of truth or concealment of facts.
Malpractice
Improper, illegal, or negligent professional activity or treatment, especially by a medical practitioner, lawyer, or public official
A civil wrong
An infringement of a person’s rights, such as a tort or breach of contract.
Felonies
A serious crime, often involving violence or causing significant harm, that is punishable by imprisonment for more than a year.
Tort
A civil wrong or wrongful act, other than a breach of contract, for which a court can order compensation or other relief to the injured party. It’s a core concept in tort law, which focuses on providing remedies for harm caused by someone’s actions or omissions.
Scope of practice
The activities and duties a licensed professional is permitted to perform, as determined by their education, training, and the terms of their professional license and state laws.
Tort Feasor
A legal term referring to an individual or entity that commits a tort (a civil wrong or wrongful act) that causes harm, injury, or loss to another party.
Standard of care
Treatment that medical experts accept as a proper treatment for a specific type of disease and that is widely used by health care professionals.
Reasonable person standard
A benchmark used to determine negligence asks whether someone acted as a reasonably prudent person would in the same circumstances, and if not, whether their actions caused harm.
CLIA-waived test
Simple laboratory procedures with a low risk of error are often performed at the point of care and require minimal interpretation or special training.
STAT
Now
Code Blue
Cardiac arrest or respiratory arrest
Battery
Unlawful and intentional touching or physical contact with another person, causing either harm or offensive contact, without their consent.
Who can give informed consent?
An adult patient with decision-making capacity can give informed consent, but if they lack capacity, a legal guardian or healthcare surrogate can make decisions on their behalf.
How should specimen labels be labeled?
Patient’s full name, ID number, date and time it was collected, and the phelbotomist initals
Litigious
Can sue
Regulation
A rule, law, or order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
Precedent
Something that came before and serves as an example or rule for future actions.
Who can enter into a contract?
Physicians, individuals of legal age (18 years or older) and with sound mental capacity, or authorized representatives, can enter into legally binding agreements.
Four D’s of Negligence
Duty, Dereliction (or Deviation), Direct Cause, and Damages.
Frank blood
Bright Red Blood
Antiemetic
Drugs that prevent you from vomiting
Gliclea
Duty
A legal obligation or responsibility that a healthcare professional owes to a patient to provide a reasonable standard of care
Dereliction (or Deviation)
The failure of the healthcare professional to meet the required standard of care means they deviated from what a reasonably competent professional would have done in the same circumstances.
Direct Cause
A direct link between the healthcare professional’s negligence (dereliction of duty) and the patient’s injury or harm.
Damages
The harm or losses suffered by the patient as a result of the negligence can include physical injuries, emotional distress, medical expenses, lost wages, and other quantifiable losses.
Chain of Custody
A documented and unbroken record of who has had control of, or access to, a piece of evidence, from its collection to its presentation in court, ensuring its integrity and authenticity.
HIPAA
(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) - a federal law that protects patients’ health information. It was passed in 1996
Invasion of privacy
The unauthorized disclosure or use of a patient’s protected health information (PHI) poses significant ethical and legal concerns, potentially leading to harm and undermining healthcare trust.
Medical Practice Act
A State law that defines the requirements for practicing medicine, including licensure, scope of practice, and grounds for disciplinary action, ensuring public health and safety.
Deriliton of duty
Didn’t do what you’re supposed to do even though you practiced that study
Hemoglobin
A protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the body’s tissues and organs and returns carbon dioxide from the tissues back to the lungs.
Difference between slander and liable
The medium of communication used to make a defamatory statement: slander is spoken defamation, while libel is written or published defamation.
Specimen Label
A label attached to a sample (e.g., blood, tissue, etc.) to identify it, ensuring accurate tracking and processing in a laboratory or other setting.
Consent that is inferred based on signs, action, or conduct
Implied/Inferred Consent
Centrifuge
A device that uses centrifugal force to subject a specimen to a specified constant force
How do you operate a centrifuge?
Place it on a stable surface, ensure the rotor is properly installed, balance the tubes, close the lid securely, set the desired speed and time, and start the centrifuge, monitoring for any unusual vibrations.
Law
A binding custom or practice of a community
Case law (deverived from)
Derived from judicial decisions, or rulings made by judges in actual legal proceedings, rather than from statutes or constitutions.
Written statement of defamation
Libel- a false statement published in writing that injures a person’s reputation, exposing them to public hatred, scorn, disgrace, ridicule, or shame.
Plantiff
A person who brings a case against another in a court of law.
Defendant
An individual, company, or institution sued or accused in a court of law
What type of urine test uses a chemical test strip
Urinalysis (dipstick)
Nonfeasance
Ignoring or acknowledging (law enforcement) a situation or altercation on crime
Malfeasance
Surgery for high insurance payment
Misfeasance
Instrument left inside body after surgery
Which consent is given by spoken or written words?
Express consent
Negligance
Failure to take proper care in doing something.
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Checks for hidden blood in a stool sample, which can indicate bleeding in the digestive tract and is often used as a colorectal cancer screening tool.
Chain of custody procedures
Crucial for maintaining the integrity of evidence, ensuring its authenticity and reliability in legal proceedings by documenting the collection, handling, and storage of evidence from its origin to its presentation in court.
Hemolysis
When red blood cells rupture and release their contents
Feacanse
A distinctive facial feature or expression characteristic of a specific condition
Implied
When a patient passively cooperates in a process without verbal or written consent.
Three different types of consent
Implied consent, verbal consent, and written consent
Respirtory
Anything that has to do with breathing
What is the difference between battery and assault?
Assault involves the threat of harm or causing a reasonable fear of imminent harm, while battery involves the actual, unlawful physical contact or harm.
ASA
Asprin
To clot means
Thick mass of liquid, especially blood
-lysis - to break
