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Week 9 Terms Flashcards

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Abandonment

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Health professional’s failure to stay w a pt and provide care

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Accountability

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Accepting responsibility for one’s actions

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Administrative laws

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Laws created by an agency or a dept of the US govt

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Advance Directive

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Document in which a person gives instructions about his/her medical care in the event the individual cannot speak for him/herself

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5
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Damages

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Money awarded in a civil lawsuit to compensate the injured party

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Defamation

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Derogatory statement concerning another person’s skill, character, or reputation

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Delegation

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Assignment of one’s duties to another person

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Deposition

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Testimony of a witness given under oath and transcribed by a court reporter during the pretrial phase of a civil lawsuit

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Dilemma

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Situation or personal conflict that arises from a need to make a decision when none of the choices are acceptable

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Ethical Dilemmas

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Situation in which ethical choices involve conflicting values

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Ethics

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Core values that define one’s relationship with others

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Evidence-based practice

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Professional practices and their standards based established scientific research rather than opinion or tradition

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Hospital policy

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Rules or regulations that hospital employees are required to follow

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Incident report

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Written description of any event that caused harm or presented the risk of harm to a pt or staff in the course of normal health care

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Informed consent

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Process and a legal document that states the pt’s surgical procedure and the risks, consequences, and benefits of that procedure

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Insurance

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Contract in which the insurance company agrees to defend the policy holder if that individual is sued for acts covered by the policy

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Laws

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Standards of conduct that apply to all people in a given society

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Liable

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Legally responsible and accountable

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Libel

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Defamation in writing

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Living will

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Legal document stating the pt’s wishes regarding care in the event the pt is unable to speak from him/herself

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Malpractice

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Negligence committed by a professional

22
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Medical ethics

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Branch of ethics concerned with the practice of medicine

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Medical power of attorney

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Legal document signed by a person who is giving another individual the power to make heal care decision fro the first person if he/she becomes incompetent, unconscious, or unable to make decisions for him/herself

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Negligence

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Failure to do something that a reasonable person, guided by the ordinary professional considerations would do; or it can be the act of doing something that a reasonable and prudent person would not do

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Perjury

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Crime of intentionally lying or falsifying information during court testimony after a person has sworn to tell the truth

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Practice act

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State law that establish and regulate the conditions under which professionals may practice

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Professional ethics

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Ethical behavior established by authoritative peers of a particular profession

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Punitive

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Actions intended to punish a person who has violated the law

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Retained foreign object

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Item that is inadvertently left inside the pt during sx

30
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Safe medical practice act

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Federal regulation that requires the reporting of any incident causing death or injury that is suspected to be the result of a medical device

31
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Sentinel event

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Unexpected incident resulting in serious physical injury, psychological harm, or death

32
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Sexual harassment

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Sexual coercion, sexual innuendoes, or unwanted sexual comments, gestures, or touch

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Slander

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Spoken defamation

34
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Standards of conduct

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Set of rules or guidelines an organization writes for its members

35
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Statute

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Laws passed by state legislative bodies

36
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Subpoena

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Court order requiring its recipient to appear and testify at a trial or deposition

37
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Timeout

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Procedure in which the surgical team affirms the identity of the pt, correct position, an location (side), verification of informed consent, and other documents necessary to proceed w sx

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Tort

A

Legal wrongdoing that results in injury to a person or property

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Unretrieved device fragment

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Portion of a medical device that has broken off or come apart in the body and is not detected or removed

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Standards of practice

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Specific technical standards that list and describe the practices of the profession

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Position statement

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Public declarations of the organization’s collective opinion on important topics rater than evidence-based standards of practice

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Certification

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Verification that an individual has completed the requirements needed to achieve a designated standard of knowledge or performance

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Licensure

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Legal requirement of that state and is not voluntary

44
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Registration

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Health professionals is an administrative process of the state govt in which the state maintains an official record of the health professionals vital statistics, address, and place of employment for public protection

45
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Respondeat superior

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“Let the master respond;” Individual professionals on the surgical team are accountable for their own acts

46
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Res Ipsa Loquitur

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“the thing speaks for itself”

47
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Primum non nocere

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“first, do no harm”

48
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Civil assault

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Threat or attempt to harm another person, regardless of whether the threat is carried out

49
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Battery

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Involves contact w intent to injure and applies even if no injury occured

50
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False imprisonment

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Managing a group of its all in one place, possibly against their will

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