(Emergency care) Chapter 4 Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues

Question 1

The EMT is governed by many medical , legal, and ethical, guidelines. This collective set of regulations and ethical considerations may be referred to as ____.
A. Licences
B. NREMT
C. Scope of practice
D. Scope of knowledge

Answer 1

C. Scope of practice
a set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent and limits of the EMT’s job.

Question 2

____ usually defined as health care that would be expected to be provided by an EMT with similar training when caring for a patient in a similar situation.
A. Scope of practice
B. Expected care
C. Expressed consent
D. Standard of care

Answer 2

D. Standard of care

Question 3

what is QI?
A. Quality Insurance
B. Qualified Immunity
C. Quantified Improvement
D. Quality Improvement

Answer 3

D. Quality Improvement
Going over calls, critique, and reviews to improve with feed back

Question 4

____ is permission from a patient for care or other action by the EMT
A. DNA
B. DNI
C. Consent
D. Contract

Answer 4

C. Consent

Question 5

What is the difference between consent and expressed consent?
A. Consent if from the patient vs expressed concent are adult, legal age, mentally competent to make rational decisions to medical well-being
B. Underage vs of age
C. Minor vs Emancipated Minor
D. Pregnant vs mother

Answer 5

A. Consent if from the patient vs expressed concent are adult, legal age, mentally competent to make rational decisions to medical well-being

Question 6

What is an example of Implied consent?
A. POA
B. DNR
C. DNI
D. unconscious patient

Answer 6

D. Unconscious patient
can include physically or mentally incapacitated but need emergency care.

Question 7

If a child care facility calls 911 for a minor. Your crew is unable to obtain contact with parents, and the facility wants them transported. Do you transport the minor to the hospital without parental consent?
A. Wait for parents to pick up child
B. Get a staff member to sign refusal form
C. Take the child to the appropriate facility
D. Leave the child with staff

Answer 7

C. Take the child to approprate facility
If the situation is Emergency you would fall under implied concent. If a note was given to the child care facilty for permission to treat; would follow In loco parentis or In place of parents

Question 8

In order for a patient to refuse care or transport, several conditions must be fulfilled. Patient must be legally able to consent, must be mentally competent and oriented, must be fully informed, and will be asked to sign a “release” form.
This will limit what?
A. QA QI
B. Save you time on reports
C. Liability
D. None of the above

Answer 8

C. Liability

Question 9

____ is placing a person in fear of bodily harm.
A. Assault
B. Battery
C. Kidnapping
D. Abandonment

Answer 9

A. Assault

Question 10

____ causing bodily harm to or restraining a person
A. Assault
B. Battery
C. Kidnapping
D. Abandonment

Answer 10

B. battery

Question 11

DNI and DNR are signed legal document by the patient and phyician. This is an example of what?
A. last words
B. Advanced directives
C. Future treatments
D. Family wishes

Answer 11

B. advance directives

Question 12

A legal DNR order is not present and family states the they do not want resusitative measures, what should you do?
A. Follow family wishes and do not resusciate
B. Wait for DNR to arrive
C. Contact medical control
D. Start resusitation

Answer 12

D. Start resusitation
No Valid DNR start resusiation, DNR arrives and family want to continue resusiataion contact medical control to speak to the family, delaying care opens the door for liability. It is better to be sued for doing care than not doing care

Question 13

____ means that something that should have been done was not done or done incorrectly and caused harm to patient. Failing to duty to act.
A. Advance directive
B. DNR
C. Abandonment
D. Negligence

Answer 13

D. Negligence

Question 14

____ is the concept that the damages to the patient were the result of action or inaction fo the EMT.
A. Duty to act
B. Good samaritan
C. Proximate causation
D. Tort

Answer 14

C. Proimate Causation

Question 15

Latin for “the thing speaks for itself”
A. Tort
B. E-pluribus unum
C. Res ipsa loquitur
D. Veni, vidi, vici

Answer 15

C. Res ipsa loquitur
a foundational concept in negligence

Question 16

Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training is what?
A. Duty to act
B. Moral
C. HIPPA
D. Abandonment

Answer 16

D. Abandonment

Question 17

A series of laws, in each state designed to provide limited legal and protection for citizens and some health care personnel when they admisitering emergency care?
A. Confidentiality
B. Abandonment
C. Limited liablity act
D. Good Samaritan laws

Answer 17

D. Good Samaritan Laws

Question 18

Sharing inappropriate or false information via written form is what?
A. Slander
B. Libel
C. Tort
D. HIPPA

Answer 18

B.Libel

Question 19

Sharing inappropriate or false information via verbal form is what?
A. Slander
B. Libel
C. Tort
D. HIPPA

Answer 19

A. Slander

Question 20

Law that permits a person to drop off an infant or child to a police, fire, or EMS station. The intent of the law is to protect children who may otherwise be abandoned or harmed.
A. Jim Crow
B. Organ Donor
C. Safe Haven
D. Murphy’s

Answer 20

C. Safe Haven

Question 21

When dealing with crime scene, EMS must be mindful of what we touch, minimize your impact on the scene, and work with the police. What is the priority when it comes the the crime scene?
A. Tell the police what furniture your moved
B. Pick up evidence on scene and pass it to the police
C. Every thing at the scene is HIPPA and can not talk to the police
D. The first priority is alway patient care

Answer 21

D. The first priority is always patient care