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Intro to Rad. Scienc
Chapter 24 Medical Law and Practice Standards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Protects individual rights | Constitutional Law |
| Law enacted by federal, state or local legislators. ex. CARE bill. | Statutory Law |
| Administrative laws passed by legislation but issued and enforced by admin body. ex. IEMA | Administrative Law |
| Derived from Common Law of England decided on a case by case basis by judge or jury. | Case or Civil Law |
| Murder or manslaughter. Rare against H.C workers | Felony |
| Criminal negligence, failure to report injury or illness, fraudulent business activities, failure to provide emergency services | Misdemeanors |
| Most common involving claims against health care workers | Tort law |
| Clinical Standard 1 | Assessment-Gather information |
| Clinical Standard 2 | Analysis/Dtermination |
| Clinical Standard 3 | Patient Education |
| Clinical Standard 4 | Performance |
| Clinical Standard 5 | Evaluation |
| Clinical Standard 6 | Implementation |
| Clinical Standard 7 | Outcome measures |
| Clinical Standard 8 | Documention |
| Set parameters, fed and state regulations, job discriptions, curriculum, professional customs. | Practice Standards |
| an act that causes a person to fear they will be touched in an offensive, insulting, or physically injurious manner with out consent. | Assult |
| Act of harmful or unwarranted or unconsented contact with a person with out consent. Touching with out permission | Battery |
| Illegal detention of a person without consent | False imprisonment |
| Covering up errors in the care of a patient | Fraud |
| Invasion of a persons reputation and good name, includes slander and libel. | Defoamation of Charactor |
| Harmful spoken words about a person | Slander |
| Written or published comments negative about a person | Libel |
| Violating a persons right to protection against unreasonable and unwarrented interference. breech of confidentiality. | Invasion of privacy |
| Failure to use such care as a reasonably prudent health care professional would. | Medical Negligence |
| 1. duty to the patient-duty is owed 2. breach of this duty-failure to perform 3. compensable injury-harm with results 4. relationship between injury and breach of duty | 4 elements of malpractice |
| Not needed in emergency situation | Consent |
| showing up, getting on the table, walking up to wall bucky, doesnt require knowledge of procedure. | Consent |
| Required when patient is subject to any type of invasive procedure. | Informed Consent |
| Must consist of procedure, benefits, risks, alternatives, and in the patients language. | Informed Consent |
| To be able to give informed consent a patient must | Be of legal age, competent, sign voluntarly, and give a signature. |
| Exams that require informed consent: | Myelograms, MRI injections, Athrograms, IVU, Arteriograms, CT injections, Biopsies and drainages. |
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