Unit 1: Medical Law and Ethics/Medical Math/Professional Standards Flashcards
provides people with a MINIMUM standard of conduct. governs the interaction between people in an attempt to create an orderly society
Medical Law
a field of applied ethics that applies to the filed or medicine and health care
Medical Ethics
refers to beliefs that are morally right or wrong; provides standards for how one should behave
Ethics
has been the basis of ethical behavior and ethical conflict in medicine
Hippocratic Oath
defines the procedures, actions, and processes that are permitted for the health care professionals
Scope of practice
is the ACTUAL physical harm or unwarranted touching of another person
Battery
invasion of privacy helps to ensure that you will have your privacy maintained
Invasion of Privacy
is the failure to do something that a prudent person would ordinarily do OR not doing something you have been trained to do
Negligence
is professional negligence. it means “bad practice”. it has come to mean professional care that has led to injury
Malpractice
is a principle that means literally telling people what medical procedure will be performed, the expected outcome, and the possible complications
Informed Consent
sets a time line for implementation of confidentiality guidelines to safeguard medical records and individual medical information
HIPAA
what does HIPAA stand for
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
counting numbers and zero; they DO NOT contain decimals or fractions
whole numbers
numbers that have decimals
Non-whole numbers
whole numbers and a fraction
Mixed Numbers
whole or all of something
percentages
totaling of two or more numbers
addition