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
taking a number away from another
subtraction
finding the product of two numbers
multiplication
separating into parts
division
units less than one and are always written in what form
decimal form 1/10 = .1
cm
centimeter
mm
millimeter
m
meters
1 centimeter is how many meters
0.01 meters
1 millimeter is how many meters
0.001 meters
1 kilogram is how many grams
1,000 grams
1 milligran is how many grams
0.001 grams
1 milliliter is how many liters
0.001 liters
cc
centimeter
mL
milliliter
1 cubic centimeter is how many milliliters
1 milliliter
in Roman numberals M is
1000
in Roman numerals D is
500
in Roman numerals I is
1
in Roman numerals L is
50
in Roman numerals C is
100
in Roman numerals V is
5
in Roman numerals X is
10
being able to be trusted with such information on a need-to-know basis and not shared with others. The quality of being fair and truthful
Honesty
ability to relate to another person’s situation
Empathy
ability to be reliable– shows up to work when scheduled and does assigned work
Dependable
everyone has to work together to achieve the goals of the facility is
Teamwork