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Expressed consent

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Type of consent given when the patient verbally or otherwise acknowledges that they want you to provide care or transport

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Actual consent

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Type of consent given when the patient verbally or otherwise acknowledges that they want you to provide care or transport

Same as “expressed consent”

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Informed consent

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Consent given after the patient has been advised of:

  • nature of offered treatment
  • potential risks
  • potential benefits
  • alternatives
  • consequences of refusing care
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Abandonment

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One sided termination of care with out the patients consent and without making provisions for transferring care to a similar level care provider

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Advanced directive

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Written document specifying medical treatment if a patient becomes unable to make decisions

Also called a living will or health care directive

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Applied ethics

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The method ethics are incorporated into professional conduct

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Assault

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Unlawfully placing a patient in fear of bodily harm

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Battery

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Unlawfully touching a patient or providing care without consent

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Bioethics

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The study of ethics related to issues that arise In Healthcare

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Breach of confidentiality

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Disclosure of information without proper authorization

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Certification

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Process to evaluate and recognize as meeting certain predetermined standards to provide safe and ethical patient care

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Compensatory damages

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Damages awarded in a civil lawsuit that are intended to restore the plaintiff to the same condition that he or she was in prior to the incident

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Competent

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Able to make rational decisions about personal well-being

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Consent

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Permission to render care

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Contributory negligence

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A legal defense that implies the plaintive somehow contributed to injuries or damages they sustained

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Credentialing

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And established process to determine the qualifications necessary to be allowed to practice a particular profession

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Decision making capacity

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Ability to understand and process information and make a choice regarding appropriate medical care

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Defamation

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The communication of false information about a person that is damaging to the Person’s reputation or standing in the community

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Dependent lividity

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Settling to the lowest point of the body causing discoloration of the skin a definitive sign of death

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Depositions

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Oral questions asked of parties and witnesses under oath

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Discovery

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The face in a civil lawsuit with the plaintiff and defense exchange information with each other

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Durable power of attorney for healthcare

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An advanced directive executed by a competent adult that apoints another individual to make medical treatment decisions on their behalf in the event the person becomes incompetent

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Duty to act

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Relating to certain personnel who either by statute or by function have a responsibility to provide care

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Emancipated minors

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A person who is under the legal age but is legally considered an adult

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Emergency
A serious situation such as injury or illness that threatens the life or welfare of a person requiring immediate intervention
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Emergency doctrine
The principle of law that permits a healthcare provider to treat a patient in an emergency situation when the patient is in capable of granting consent because of an altered level of consciousness disability effects of drugs or alcohol or the patient’s age
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Ethics
The philosophy of right or wrong of moral duties and of a deal professional behavior
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Expressed consent
A type of consent in which a patient gives verbal or nonverbal authorization allowing care or transport
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False imprisonment
The confinement of a person without legal authority or the person’s consent
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Forcible restraint
The act of physically preventing an individual from initiating any physical action
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Good Samaritan laws
Statutory provisions in acted by many states to protect citizens from liability for errors and omissions in giving good faith emergency medical care unless there is gross or willful negligence
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Governmental immunity
Legal doctrine that can protect an EMS provider from being sued or which may limit the amount of monetary judgment that the plaintiff may recover
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Gross negligence
Conduct that Constitutes a welfare or reckless disregard for a duty or standard of care
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Health care directive
A written document that specifies medical treatment for a competent patient should he or she become unable to make decisions also known as an advance directive or living will
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Implied consent
Type of consent in which a patient who is an able to give consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that they would want treatment
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In loco parentis
Legal responsibility of a person to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent
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Interrogatories
Written questions that the defense and plaintive sent to one another
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Kidnapping
The seizing confining objecting or carrying a way of a person by force including transporting a competent adult for medical treatment without their consent
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Libel
False and damaging information about a person that is communicated in writing
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Licensure
Process a competent authority usually the state allows people to perform a regulated act
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Medicolegal
Relating to medical law or forensic medicine
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Morality
A code of conduct that can be defined by society religion or a person affecting character conduct and conscience
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Negligence
Failure to provide the same care that a person with similar training would provide
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Negligence per se
A theory that maybe used to win the contact of the person being sued is alleged to have occurred in clear violation of the statute
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Patient autonomy
The right of a patient to make informed choices regarding his or her health care
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Protected health information (PHI)
Any information about health status provision of healthcare or payment for healthcare that can be linked to an individual
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Proximate causation
When a person who has a duty | abuses it and causes harm to another individual
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Punitive damages
Damages that are sometimes awarded in a civil lawsuit
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Putrefaction
Decomposition of body tissue a definitive sign of death
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Res ipsa loquitor
When the EMT is held liable even when the plaintiff is an able to clearly demonstrate how an injury occurred
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Rigor mortis
Stiffening of the body muscles a definitive sign of death
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Scope of practice
Outlines the care that an EMT is able to provide for the patient usually defined by the state law
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Slander
False and damaging information about a person that is communicated by the spoken word
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Standard of care
Excepted levels of emergency care expected by reason of training and profession
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Statute of limitations
But time within which a case must be commenced
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Tort
A wrongful act that gives rise to a civil lawsuit

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