Legal Responsibilities

Taking narcotics from the pharmacy by a pharmacy technician is a violation of:

• Social Law
• Civil Law
• Virtual Law
• Criminal Law

A medication is ordered to be mixed in 1000 cc of IV fluid for administration.  If a nurse injects the medication directly into a patient’s vein in error, he/she could be guilty of:

• Malpractice
• Assault
• Negligence
• Physical Abuse

An EMT is charged with battery.  What did the EMT do?

•   Informed the news media of a victim’s condition.
•   Treated a victim, even though the victim refused treatment.
•   Failed to splint a broken leg and then moved the victim.
•   Used inappropriate words to describe a victim’s nationality.

Mr. Jones goes to a medical office with chest pain.  The physician orders an antacid and does not do an EKG.  That night, Mr. Jones dies from a heart attack.  The doctor could be charged with:

• Slander
• Defamation
• Negligence
• Battery

Dr. Smith asks Bobbie, a medical assistant, to help a patient, Mr. Jones, to his car in a wheelchair.  On the way to the car, Bobbie accidentally runs into Mrs. Jones, knocking her down.  Mrs. Jones suffers a broken hip and files a lawsuit.  Who is identified in the lawsuit as the agent?

• Dr. Smith
• Bobbie
• Mr. Jones
• Mrs. Jones

A dental assistant tells her friends that a hygienist she works with has a drinking problem. If this is not true, the assistant could be guilty of:

• Slander
• Malpractice
• Battery
• Libel

Jan Shevlin goes to the laboratory for bloodwork.  She cooperates with the phlebotomist by extending her arm to have blood drawn.  What kind of agreement did the phlebotomist have with this patient?

• Informed consent
• Formal consent
• Implied contract
• Expressed contract

An angry patient writes a letter to the newspaper editor about a local psychologist.  The allegations in the letter are clearly untrue and damaging to the psychologist’s practice.  The letter writer could be guilty of:

• Assault
• Battery
• Slander
• Libel

A patient with a legal disability cannot:

• Form a contract
• Be charged under criminal law.
• Work in a healthcare setting
• Be seen in an emergency room

Don is caring for his elderly mother.  He could be charged with psychological abuse if he:

• Threatens to lock her in her room
• Uses profanity when he talks to her.
• Does not give her enough to eat or drink
• Hits her.