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What are moral principles?

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Standards that establish what is right based on your conscience

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What are ethics?

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A set or morals that govern one’s actions and are the application of accepted morals

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What are the 2 categories of ethics?

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  1. Deontology
  2. Consequentialism
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What category of ethics is this?

Looks at the action individually, not the full picture.

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Deontology

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What category of ethics is this?

Looks and large picture and consequences.

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Consequentialism

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How are ethics developed?

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Based off of one’s cultural and enviromental background

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Everyone has there own code of ethics.

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True

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Who provides the code of ethics MRT’s follow as a profession?

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  1. CAMRT
  2. CMRITO
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What is the CAMRT code of ethics?

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  1. Patient centered care
  2. Maintaining competence
  3. Evidence-based and reflective practice
  4. Providing a safe enviroment
  5. Activing with professional integrity
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What is the CMRITO’s code of ethics?

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  1. Responsibilitiy to the public
  2. Responsibilitiy to the patients
  3. Responsibilitiy to the profession
  4. Responsibilitiy to colleagues and other health professionals
  5. Personal Responsibilitiy
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What are standards of practice?

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The minimum expectations of MRT behaviour

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What tool does CAMRT and CMRITO use to build thier standards of practice?

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Thier codes of ethics

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What is the purpose of the Hippocratic Oath?

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Guides physicians to heal others, avoid causing injury, and to keep information confidential

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What did the Nuremberg code stress?

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The importance of consent and that all medical experiments should be for the good of society

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What is bioethics?

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Ethical issues arising from advances in medical proceedures and technologies.

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What are laws?

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Rules of conduct created by a group of legislators to enfoce common moral standards amongst the popultion

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What law system do we have in Canada other than in Quebec?

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The common law system

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What are the four legal institutions in Canada?

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  1. Criminal court
  2. Civil court
  3. Coroner’s court
  4. Disiplinary boards
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What are the two legal insititutions applicable to MRT’s in Canada?

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  1. Coroners court
  2. Disciplinary boards
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What cases go to criminal court?

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Acts that violate the criminal code

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Which legal institution is in the federal jurisdiction?

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Criminal court

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What cases go to civil court?

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Cases that involve disputes between private parties

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What is tort law?

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A form of civil law that deals with wrongful acts that lead to damages to another person for which another person can be held responsible

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T/F

Tort law can unintentional or intentional

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True

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Give 3 examples of intentional torts as an MRT
1. Assult 2. Battery 3. Immobilizing patients against thier will
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Define negligence:
Failure to exercise appropriate care
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Define malpractice:
Professional negligence
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Negligence requires that the following **what** are not met:
1. Duty of care 2. Standard of care 3. Causation 4. Remoteness
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Give 3 examples of malpractice as an MRT:
1. Improper positioning 2. Not using sheilding 3. Failure to report abuse
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What is a coroner?
A medical doctor specializing in death investigation that investigate unexplained or suspicious deaths
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What is an inquest?
A public hearing onthe circumstances of a death
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What is the purpose of coroners court?
Used to create recommentations to improve public safety that can lead to civil or criminal cases through the civial/criminal court
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Who holds disciplinary hearings?
The dicipline boards
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How many members are on the diciplinary board?
3-5
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# T/F Discipinary boards may have an open or closed hearing.
True
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What does harrasment involve in order to be considered harrasment?
Agressive pressure or intimindation
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What are the 4 types of harrasment?
1. Physical 2. Emotional 3. Sexual 4. Workplace
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# T/F Stalking is a form of physical harrasment.
True
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What is physical harrasment?
Physical methods of coercing, threatening, or bullying and can be assult or battery
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What is emotional harrasment?
Comments, jokes, constant critisism, display or offensive images in an attempt to lower the persons self esteem or humiliate them
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Give three examples of sexual harrasment:
1. Touching 2. Gestures 3. Leering
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What is sexual harrasment?
-Unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature demanding -Demanding or expecting acts of a sexual nature
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What is workplace harassment?
Threatening, belittling or humilliating behaviour in the workplace
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Who can workplace violence come from?
1. Patients 2. Coworkers 3. Superiors 4. Partners
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What is the purpose of the consitiution act?
Set out a division of powers between federal and provincial governments
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What was the function of the sasakatchewan hosptalization act?
Created pubic funding for hospital care in the province
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What was the function of the hospital insurance and diagnostic services act?
Provided 50% reimbursment for provinces/territories funding hospital services
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What was the function of the medical care act?
Provided 50% reimbursement for medical services from a doctor outside of hospitals
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What is the purpose of the Canada health act?
To set standards that provincial/territorial isurance plans must meet to get funding through Canada health transfer
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What is the function of the public administration in the Canada health act?
Makes sure healthcare plans are orerated ona non profit basis by a public authority
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What does universality mean in relation to the Canada health act?
Provinces and territories must cover all residents
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What does portability mean in relation to the Canada health act?
Plans must cover residents when they travel within Canada
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What does accesibility mean in relation to the Canada health act?
Must provide reasonable acess to medical care based on medial need
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How is the Candian health transfer distributed?
On a per capita basis through equalization payments
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# T/F Equalization payments do not have to be spent on healthcarea nd are based on the amount the provinces fiscal capacity is below average
True
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What is an operating budget?
The cost of providing services
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What is a capital budget?
Funds allocated for purchasing assets
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What is health Canada responsible for?
1. To set principles and standards so that quality healthcare is availble to all Candaians 2. Provide healthcare to certian population groups 3. Regulation of certian products 4. Provides funding for health research, promotion, and protection
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# T/F Each province is responsible for administering healthcare
True
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How many difference insurance plans are there for residnce in Canada?
13 differenent insurance plans
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# T/F The ministry of health is provincial.
True
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How many health teams are there in Ontario Health?
58 Health teams
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What is Ontario health responsible for?
Agency in charge of healthcare administration

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