HSC and A Chapter 3

Question 1

What is concerned with whether a healthcare worker’s actions are right or wrong?

Answer 1

medical ethics

Question 2

What focuses on whether a healthcare workers actions are legal or illegal?

Answer 2

medical law

Question 3

What acts are always unethical?

Answer 3

illegal

Question 4

What is ethical behavior?

Answer 4

the idea conduct for a certain group

Question 5

What are the concepts, ideas that are important to a person?

Answer 5

values

Question 6

What governs the legal conduct of members of medical profession?

Answer 6

medical law

Question 7

What is another name for civil law?

Answer 7

tort law

Question 8

What are the two types of invasion of privacy?

Answer 8

physical and informational

Question 9

What is the list of guarantees of those receiving medical care?

Answer 9

Patient’s Bill of rights

Question 10

Who is the individual who ensures that patients are not abused and their legal rights are protected?

Answer 10

obudsman

Question 11

When was the Patient Self Determination Act passed by Congress?

Answer 11

1990

Question 12

What act requires that most healthcare institutions inform patients about their rights at the right time of admission?

Answer 12

Patient Self - determination act

Question 13

What is the legal document where a patient gives written instructions about healthcare decisions in the event that he becomes incapable of making such in the future

Answer 13

advanced directive

Question 14

What is document that states that CPR and ACLS should not be performed in the event that the patient’s heart stops?

Answer 14

DNR ( Do not resuscitate)

Question 15

What is the legal document that grants another person the legal authority to make legal decisions for you?

Answer 15

duruable power of attorney

Question 16

What is a person under 18 years of age who had legally established that they do not live with their parents?

Answer 16

emancipated minor

Question 17

What is the legal obligation for healthcare personnel to take reasonable care of a patient to avoid causing harm?

Answer 17

duty of care

Question 18

What refers to performin an act that a reasonable person would have not done?

Answer 18

negligence

Question 19

What is the method of resolving disputes outside the courtroom and does not involve trial?

Answer 19

arbitration

Question 20

What is another name for medical malpractice?

Answer 20

professional liability

Question 21

What is when a person’s words and actions make another person fear that they might be harmed?

Answer 21

assualt

Question 22

What refers to touching person without permission?

Answer 22

battery

Question 23

What is the act of damaging someone’s good name or reputation?

Answer 23

defamation

Question 24

What is the name for verbal defamation>

Answer 24

slander

Question 25

What is a name for written defamation?

Answer 25

libel

Question 26

What refers to any action that results in physical and mental harm?

Answer 26

abuse

Question 27

What refers to the skill and care that healthcare providers must use?

Answer 27

standard of care

Question 28

What includes all the skills that an individual is trained for and allowed to use?

Answer 28

scope of practice

Question 29

Working outside your scope of practice is what?

Answer 29

illegal

Question 30

When was HIPPA passed?

Answer 30

1996

Question 31

When was HIPPA fully enforced?

Answer 31

april of 2003

Question 32

What allows only certain individuals the right to access personal infromational?

Answer 32

confidentiality

Question 33

What gurantees continuation of healtchare insurance coverage is a person's job changes?

Answer 33

HIPPA

Question 34

What established national standards to protect individual's medical record and other personal information?

Answer 34

HIPPA