Week 9 Terms

Question 1

Abandonment

Answer 1

Health professional’s failure to stay w a pt and provide care

Question 2

Accountability

Answer 2

Accepting responsibility for one’s actions

Question 3

Administrative laws

Answer 3

Laws created by an agency or a dept of the US govt

Question 4

Advance Directive

Answer 4

Document in which a person gives instructions about his/her medical care in the event the individual cannot speak for him/herself

Question 5

Damages

Answer 5

Money awarded in a civil lawsuit to compensate the injured party

Question 6

Defamation

Answer 6

Derogatory statement concerning another person’s skill, character, or reputation

Question 7

Delegation

Answer 7

Assignment of one’s duties to another person

Question 8

Deposition

Answer 8

Testimony of a witness given under oath and transcribed by a court reporter during the pretrial phase of a civil lawsuit

Question 9

Dilemma

Answer 9

Situation or personal conflict that arises from a need to make a decision when none of the choices are acceptable

Question 10

Ethical Dilemmas

Answer 10

Situation in which ethical choices involve conflicting values

Question 11

Ethics

Answer 11

Core values that define one’s relationship with others

Question 12

Evidence-based practice

Answer 12

Professional practices and their standards based established scientific research rather than opinion or tradition

Question 13

Hospital policy

Answer 13

Rules or regulations that hospital employees are required to follow

Question 14

Incident report

Answer 14

Written description of any event that caused harm or presented the risk of harm to a pt or staff in the course of normal health care

Question 15

Informed consent

Answer 15

Process and a legal document that states the pt’s surgical procedure and the risks, consequences, and benefits of that procedure

Question 16

Insurance

Answer 16

Contract in which the insurance company agrees to defend the policy holder if that individual is sued for acts covered by the policy

Question 17

Laws

Answer 17

Standards of conduct that apply to all people in a given society

Question 18

Liable

Answer 18

Legally responsible and accountable

Question 19

Libel

Answer 19

Defamation in writing

Question 20

Living will

Answer 20

Legal document stating the pt’s wishes regarding care in the event the pt is unable to speak from him/herself

Question 21

Malpractice

Answer 21

Negligence committed by a professional

Question 22

Medical ethics

Answer 22

Branch of ethics concerned with the practice of medicine

Question 23

Medical power of attorney

Answer 23

Legal document signed by a person who is giving another individual the power to make heal care decision fro the first person if he/she becomes incompetent, unconscious, or unable to make decisions for him/herself

Question 24

Negligence

Answer 24

Failure to do something that a reasonable person, guided by the ordinary professional considerations would do; or it can be the act of doing something that a reasonable and prudent person would not do

Question 25

Perjury

Answer 25

Crime of intentionally lying or falsifying information during court testimony after a person has sworn to tell the truth

Question 26

Practice act

Answer 26

State law that establish and regulate the conditions under which professionals may practice

Question 27

Professional ethics

Answer 27

Ethical behavior established by authoritative peers of a particular profession

Question 28

Punitive

Answer 28

Actions intended to punish a person who has violated the law

Question 29

Retained foreign object

Answer 29

Item that is inadvertently left inside the pt during sx

Question 30

Safe medical practice act

Answer 30

Federal regulation that requires the reporting of any incident causing death or injury that is suspected to be the result of a medical device

Question 31

Sentinel event

Answer 31

Unexpected incident resulting in serious physical injury, psychological harm, or death

Question 32

Sexual harassment

Answer 32

Sexual coercion, sexual innuendoes, or unwanted sexual comments, gestures, or touch

Question 33

Slander

Answer 33

Spoken defamation

Question 34

Standards of conduct

Answer 34

Set of rules or guidelines an organization writes for its members

Question 35

Statute

Answer 35

Laws passed by state legislative bodies

Question 36

Subpoena

Answer 36

Court order requiring its recipient to appear and testify at a trial or deposition

Question 37

Timeout

Answer 37

Procedure in which the surgical team affirms the identity of the pt, correct position, an location (side), verification of informed consent, and other documents necessary to proceed w sx

Question 38

Tort

Answer 38

Legal wrongdoing that results in injury to a person or property

Question 39

Unretrieved device fragment

Answer 39

Portion of a medical device that has broken off or come apart in the body and is not detected or removed

Question 40

Standards of practice

Answer 40

Specific technical standards that list and describe the practices of the profession

Question 41

Position statement

Answer 41

Public declarations of the organization's collective opinion on important topics rater than evidence-based standards of practice

Question 42

Certification

Answer 42

Verification that an individual has completed the requirements needed to achieve a designated standard of knowledge or performance

Question 43

Licensure

Answer 43

Legal requirement of that state and is not voluntary

Question 44

Registration

Answer 44

Health professionals is an administrative process of the state govt in which the state maintains an official record of the health professionals vital statistics, address, and place of employment for public protection

Question 45

Respondeat superior

Answer 45

"Let the master respond;" Individual professionals on the surgical team are accountable for their own acts

Question 46

Res Ipsa Loquitur

Answer 46

"the thing speaks for itself"

Question 47

Primum non nocere

Answer 47

"first, do no harm"

Question 48

Civil assault

Answer 48

Threat or attempt to harm another person, regardless of whether the threat is carried out

Question 49

Battery

Answer 49

Involves contact w intent to injure and applies even if no injury occured

Question 50

False imprisonment

Answer 50

Managing a group of its all in one place, possibly against their will