Medical Law & Ethics

Question 1

Patients bill of rights

Answer 1

Receive treatment regardless of age, sex, race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or source of payment. Receive considerate and and respectful care in a clean environment free of unnecessary restraints, receive emergency care if needed, right to refuse treatment, right to informed consent, right to know the names and positions of healthcare professionals. Right to privacy and to choose providers.

Question 2

Valued Diversity in the workplace

Answer 2

Improves creativity, employee development, improved decision making, increased productivity, bigger talent pool, improve cultural insight,better reputation.

Question 3

Modeling professional appearance and behavior in the workplace

Answer 3

Dressing smartly, being clean, having good personal hygiene, carry yourself well.
High quality work standards, honesty and integrity, communicating effectively and appropriately.

Question 4

HIPAA (health insurance portability and accountability act)

Answer 4

An act passed by the US congress that directly protects patients personal health info.

Question 5

PHI (protected health info)

Answer 5

Any info about the patients past, present or future physical or mental health and treatment. Should not be shared unless the info is necessary for the patients treatment or for insurance companies or government agencies.

Question 6

Laws

Answer 6

Rules established by local, state, or federal govern,ent agencies that typically carry a penalty if disobeyed.

Question 7

Ethics

Answer 7

Guidelines for moral behavior (not punishable by law)

Question 8

Medical malpractice

Answer 8

Special type of negligence indicating that a healthcare pro has engaged in some type of misconduct or demonstrated a lack of skill that caused an injury to a patient.

Question 9

Liable

Answer 9

Being held accountable under law

Question 10

Negligence

Answer 10

The failure to act with reasonable care, resulting in harm to another person.

Question 11

Code of ethics

Answer 11

Principles established by the APTA that require an even higher standard of behavior than the law.

Question 12

Reasonable care

Answer 12

A concept that means if a healthcare worker can prove that they acted reasonably then they aren’t responsible for poor results.

Question 13

Duty of care

Answer 13

A concept that means a patients treatment should meet the common or average standards of practice that any patient would receive under similar circumstances and in that community.