HST Ch. 5 Legal & Ethical Responsibilities

When identifying a patient, you should ___?

• check the photo ID

• scan the bar code on the patient's ID band

• check for the patient's name on the room door

• state the patient's name when addressing him/her

A threat or attempt to injure is?

• battery

• slander

• assault

• defamation

Focuses on wrongs against a person, property, or society.

• civil law

• torts

• roman law

• criminal law

Parts of a contract include?

• consideration

• implied

• offer

• acceptance

The purpose of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)?

• provide information and assistance in preparing advance directives

• educate the staff on the medical and legal issues of advance directives

• inform every adult, both orally and in writing, of their right under state law to make decisions concerning medical care, including the right to refuse treatment and right-to-die options

• affirm that there will be no discrimination or effect on care because of advance directives

False statements that either cause a person to be ridiculed or damage the person's reputation.

• defamation

• ethics

• negligence

• invasion of privacy

Failure to give expected care?

• malpractice

• negligence

• battery

• slander

All information given to health care personnel by a patient.

• implied contract

• expressed contract

• Privileged communications

• legal disability

Example(s) of people who have legal disabilities.

• individuals over the age of 75

• semiconscious or unconscious people

• mentally incompetent persons

• individuals under the influence of drugs that alter the mental state

This act guarantees certain rights to residents in long-term care facilities.

• Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1987

• Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information

• Privacy Rule of 2003

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)