Intro Legal and Ethical Responsibilities

The doctor you work for asks you to give a patient an allergy shot, but you are not qualified to give injections. What should you do in this situation to maintain professional standards?

• Prepare the injection yourself, but have the doctor administer it.

• Ask one of the nurses to show you how to do it.

• Write an order for the nurse to give the injection.

• Remind the doctor that you are not qualified or permitted to give injections.

If Maria, a home health aide, suspects that her elderly client is being abused by her daughter, she should

• immediately report the signs or symptoms of abuse to her supervisor.

• call the police immediately.

• mind her own business.

• ask the client if she is being abused.

What must be done if a patient wants to leave a medical facility without a doctor's permission?

• Ask the patient to sign an AMA (Against Medical Advice) form and document the refusal in the patient's record.

• The patient must be restrained until a doctor grants him or her permission to leave.

• The patient can leave, but a family member must be notified.

• Nothing, because patients have the right to refuse medical treatment.

Which of the following is not an essential part of a contract?

• Acceptance

• Consideration

• Offer

• Libel

Which statement describes the difference between an implied consent and an expressed consent?

• An implied consent is an obligation understood without verbally expressed terms; an expressed consent is clearly stated verbally or in writing.

• An implied consent has less legal value than an expressed consent.

• An implied consent is written; an expressed consent is oral.

• Physicians use expressed consent while other health care workers use implied consent.

If health care workers discover they made an error when writing on a patient's medical record, they must

• erase the incorrect information, add the correction, and sign their name.

• underline the incorrect statement and write the notation "error."

• cross out the incorrect information, and then write in the correction, the date, and their initials.

• cross out the incorrect information and add the correction.

Under the federal Privacy Rule, a health care professional can provide general medical information about patients without their consent to

• no one.

• concerned family members.

• the patient's insurance company.

• another health care provider.

A/An (insert word) order means that cardiopulmonary resuscitation is not performed when the patient stops breathing.

• PSDA

• DHCS

• POA

• DNR

Jose is a respiratory therapist. His supervisor is in a hurry and asks him to perform a procedure he has not been trained to perform. What should he do?

• Do the procedure to the best of his ability

• Tell his supervisor he does not have the training and cannot perform the procedure

• Not do the procedure but report that it has been done

• Ask a coworker to help him perform the procedure

Gerry, a practical nurse, is extremely busy and forgot to give one of her patients his medication as scheduled 4 hours ago. What should she do?

• Hide the mistake by recording in the patient's record that she gave him his medication as scheduled

• Correct the error herself by giving him the medication as soon as she remembers

• Not do anything about it now but be sure she gives him his next scheduled dose

• Report the mistake to her supervisor as soon as she realizes she forgot