The individual who brings a case to court is the:

Legislative, Exculpatory, and Judicial are the three branches of government.

Standard of Care is the type and level of care that any health care professional should avoid.

Federal Disctric Court consists of 94 judicial districts organized into 12 regional circuits.

Medical law consists of responsibilities of the ___________ and rights of the ____________.

The United States Supreme Court hears multitudes of cases each year.

The supreme law of the land is:

Which branch of government developed the source of law that implemented the Medicare and Medicaid amendments to the Social Security Act of 1965?

Which is true about a malpractice case?

This develops from decisions made previously by courts, or precedents, and is binding at all lower courts. 

OSHA was created by which branch of government?

Senate and the House of Representatives are under the Legislative branch of government.

Which statements about the checks and balances system is untrue?

Which entity has the power to regulate health care through its capacity to protect the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens?

When a court has jurisdiction over property or a thing itself, rather than over the people involved, the type of jurisdiction is called:

Essentially, risk management is the focus on prevention of issues, while quality assurance evaluates satisfaction.

Ethics is concerned with questions of how individuals in a society should act by defining right and wrong and appropriate conduct to serve the greater good.

The right of patients to refuse treatment, even if it is in their best interest, is an example of:

A Standard of Care is based on what another medical professional would deem to be appropriate in similar circumstances.

Virtue-based ethics theory does not take consequences into account, and operates on the assumption that everyone's virtues and actions are the same. 

In utilitarianism:

Ethics is concerned with questions of how individuals in a society should act by defining right and wrong and appropriate conduct to serve the greater good.

Ethical questions can seem subjective because:

Justice-based Ethics theorizes that some individuals should have a greater advantage over another when it comes to donated organ distribution.

All unethical acts are illegal and subject to punishment by law.

The idea of fairly distributing healthcare involves the principle of:

The bioethical principle that healthcare workers should always "do no harm" is the principle of:

The AAMA (American Association of Medical Assistants) and other large healthcare organizations have developed their own codes of ethics.

Seeing and speaking with patents themselves helps ethics committees make ethical determinations on issues or cases presented to them on the basis of logic and the codes and standards.

The ethical policies applied to organizations are called:

Morals are:

A principle stating that a surgeon must review and get written consent for surgical procedures is an example of a:

In Rights-based Ethics, the consequences to the general population are always taken into consideration.

The first of the seven steps in approaching a bioethical dilemma is:

Bioethicists study:

All unethical acts are illegal.

Also called a tort, civil wrong causes harm to a person or a person's property.

During stem cell research, scientists find ways to manipulate existing genes to identify specific diseases.

An ethical dilemma of artificial insemination can be:

The reason some patients choose voluntary sterilization procedures is only when they do not want to reproduce.

When abortion was illegal, some women were desperate for this service and subjected themselves to illegal, unsterile, and dangerous procedures to end unwanted pregnancies.

The following key question is raised in debates about voluntary abortion.

Medical research is important because it can provide valuable information about diseases and risk factors, outcomes of treatment, and healthcare costs and use.

When a female's ova are harvested and combined with a partner’s sperm cells, then grown outside of the womb and later implanted into the uterus, it is called:

The United Network for Organ Sharing waiting list rules and regulations are the same for every organ.

Implanting male sperm into a female vagina to aid in conception is called:

A surrogate mother must always use her own ovum.

This branch of government proposes legislation and enforces laws.

Employees with high Emotional Intelligence work well on teams and are more flexible in dealing with change

Bioethics is defined as the field of study examining the ethical dilemmas surrounding:

Why is stem cell research so important?

This clinical study involved recruiting more than 600 impoverished African American sharecroppers - some of whom were unknowingly infected with an STD - under the guise of receiving free medical services, and were intentionally left untreated despite an effective drug being available:

A conflict of interest occurs when self-interest affects an individual's professional obligations to one's patients, organization, and/or profession.

Due process is the procedure or actions followed to safeguard an employee if he or she feels his or her rights are in jeopardy.

The use of living donors in organ in organ transplantation may violate the tenet "first do no harm" because the donor risks death or loss of their own health.

In the United States, federally funded sterilization programs took place in 33 states throughout the 20th century, with more than 65,000 individuals being forcibly sterilized - most of them members of ethnic minorities.

A blind study is when:

A male opts to undergo a vasectomy. This is considered:

The conscience clause permits healthcare professionals to refuse providing certain medical services for reasons of personal beliefs, such as religious.

The top courts of states are State Supreme Courts.

The best precaution an employer can make is to have a zero-tolerance policy against workplace violence.

In eugenics, reproduction by people with “undesirable” qualities is encouraged.

Some ADA guidelines for reasonable accommodations include all of the following except:

Professionalism is easily defined as one quality or skill.

According to Workers' Compensation guidelines, a workplace injury can be reported anytime after the incident occurs. 

An employee handbook should outline all of the following, except:

Workers’ Compensation is a voluntary insurance program that covers medical costs and wage replacement for employees who are terminated from their job.

Federal law requiring employers with 50 or more employees to allow eligible employees to take unpaid leave to help care for a family member's illness or to stay at home after the birth or adoption of a child is the Family Medical Leave Act.

Which of the following ia a law that protects patients from inaccurate information on their credit reports?

Part of Obamacare, or Affordable Care Act, states that an individual cannot be discriminated against or denied health services or health coverage based on sex, including pregnancy, gender identification, and sex stereotyping.

In most of the United States, it is illegal for an employer to fire or not hire an employee based on their having filed a claim for workers’ compensation.

What would be illegal to ask in an interview?

 An employee handbook is necessary and designed for protecting employees only.

Though a bill that reflects a patient's out-of-pocket responsibility will be collected at the time of service, physicians in some specialties, such as radiology and anesthesiology, do not see patients in an office setting and are unable to collect at the time of service.

In order to constitute as sexual harassment, the victim must be of the opposite sex.

High levels of ______ are essential in the medical field.

In a qui tam case, the plaintiff is never entitled to a percentage of the recovered money.

At-will employment means:

OSHA regulates:

A form of sex discrimination called Sexual Harassment, is a violation of which Act?

If a medical provider receives rewards from a drug manufacturer to prescribe their drug, it is considered:

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is the federal agency that authorizes and implements the CLIA laws.

Which of the following is NOT part of the Patient's Bill of Rights? (check all that apply)

Some of the largest False Claims Act violations involve prescription drugs.

Consequences to health care employees for illegal and unethical acts vary depending on the severity of the act or lack of action.

Res judicata is the law that forbids suing a subsequent time for the same damages once a case has already been resolved.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is responsible for providing guidelines on creation and implementation of a compliance plan.

The Office of the Inspector General is the only agency that helps to provide quality control and monitor safety, ethics, and legal patency of healthcare organizations.

Which of the following is NOT a protection offered by the Patient's Bill of Rights under the Affordable Care Act?

If a healthcare professional oversteps his or her scope of practice, which can occur? (Check all that apply)

Which of the following is a duty of a compliance officer? (check all that apply)

A compliance plan is used to:

Coding and billing personnel can also be subject to fines and imprisonment if they take part in a fraudulent activity, even if they were only following the physician's or employer's direction.

Healthcare fraud is a criminal offense.

What is an example of disciplinary action for a minor infraction?

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) offers guidelines on how to create and implement a compliance program for individual and small group physician practices only.

What are workplace standards? (click all that apply)

Latin term meaning that the employer is responsible for employees' performed actions within the course of their employment.

Health care professionals are not liable if they harm a patient because of Respondeat superior.

What are the four elements needed in a negligence case?

During which surgeries would it be reasonable for a physician to remove the organ mentioned without specific consent?

A denial defense can be used only in cases where all aspects of the complaint are false, or all elements of negligence have not been established.

In this type of defense, accurate medical record documentation plays the largest part of the defense.

In which situation would sexual activity with a patient be acceptable?

An example of explicit intent is a patient rolling up their sleeve after a Medical Assistant asks them to do so for a phlebotomy procedure or injection.

Who's job is to monitor staff, prevent incidents, and minimize damages after an event?

What is the term for failure to use or not use the same care as used by a reasonably prudent person?

Damages for economic and noneconomic losses are called:

Awards based on an intentional or wrongful act that was performed are compensatory damages. 

What term is used to describe the amount of time a plaintiff has after an injury to file a lawsuit?

In arbitration, an impartial person, called an “arbitrator,” helps the parties try to reach a mutually acceptable resolution of the dispute.

Alternative dispute resolutions are usually less formal, less expensive, and less time consuming than a trial.

Which of the following must be true in order to establish negligence under res ipsa loquitur (choose all that apply)

Which is NOT a way to resolve conflicts using alternative dispute resolution?

In the legal concept of res ipsa loquitur, the injury clearly would not and could not have occurred without negligence present.

To help prevent malpractice, a healthcare provider should:

In mediation, the mediator will decide the dispute for all parties involved. 

Which of the following students might be guilty of ordinary negligence?

A healthcare provider or hospital cannot prevent a competent patient from refusing treatment or leaving the facility.

Consent is implied:

An example of medical battery is:

Raising a hand to strike a patient, even if the patient was not touched, can be considered:

HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

In order to determine intent, it is not necessary to establish that the accused individual had a desire to cause harm or injury to a person.

Quasi-intentional torts are based on speech.

A tort is a voluntary act that causes damage to a person's emotional well-being or privacy, but lacks the intent to cause distress or injury.

The statement, “the information is true, but it is information that a person wants to keep private,” likely pertains to:

Which is not a quasi-intentional tort?

Any purposeful false communication, in either written or spoken form, that harms a person's reputation; decreases respect, regard, or confidence in which a person is held; or induces disparaging, hostile, or disagreeable opinions or feelings against a person is known as defamation

A healthcare professional who believes that an unconscious patient should receive a certain treatment but knows that the patient’s religious beliefs prohibit such treatment faces:

Placing a person in immediate fear or apprehension of harmful touching without his or her consent is:

Tresspassing is unlawful intrusion that interferes with one's person, property, or land.

Which would not be considered a tort?

Which of the following is NOT an intentional tort (check all that apply)