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| Establishes agencies that are given power to enact regulations having the force of the law | Administrative Law
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| Law that includes 27 amendments, 10 of which are the Bill of Rights | Constitutional Law
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| A 17 year old person serving in the US armed forces | Emancipated Minor
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| Medical practice acts or laws that regulate the practice of medicine, such as licensure and standards of care | Statues
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| A patient who refuses needed care, such as a cancer patient who will not complete a series of chemotherapy treatments | Noncompliant
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| A provider or healthcare professional who testifies in court to establish a reasonable and expected standard of care with respect to a specific medical situation so that jurors can understand the nature of medical information | Expert Witness
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| The failure to exercise the standard of care that reasonable person would exercise in similar circumstances | Negligence
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| Persons who bring charges in a civil case | Plaintiffs
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| Medical assistants are ______ of their employers | Agents
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| A patient tilts her head back and opens her eyes wide for instillation of medicated eye drops from a MA without any verbal instruction to do so | Implied Consent
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| Professional negligence | Malpractice
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| Respondeat Superior and res ipsa loquitur | Doctrines
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| Court Order | subpoena
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| Persons against whom charges are brought | Defendants
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| A MA writes in the patient's record "Jin Marhsall is a ruthless, rude man who is very full of himself. Be careful around him." | Libel
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| A patient says loudly in the reception area of Inner City Health Care, filled to capacity with waiting patients, "Dr. Reynolds should retire. I know he's not up on the latest medical techniques." | Slander
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| A 17 year old student who lives with his or her parents | Minor
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| Actions that made the MA and the employer less vulnerable to litigation | Risk Management
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| Lawsuit | Litigation
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| Written or verbal contract that describes exactly what each party in the contract will do | Expressed Contract
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| The Ds of negligence | Duty
Derelict of duty
Damage
Direct Cause
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| What are 4 things a patient needs to know to give informed consent? | Type of procedure
The risks of the procedure
Possible outcomes
What would happen if the procedure doesn't happen
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| The unauthorized touching of one person by another | Battery
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| The federal government established laws in 1968 to allow people to make a gift of all or part of their body; it is known as | Uniform and Anatomical Gift Act
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| The law mandates that the proper authorities be informed of certain harms and injuries, such as all except: Rape GSW Knife Wounds Child Abuse Elder Abuse | Rape
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| What term is used now in place of "domestic Violence" and what does it means? Why was the change made? | IVP: Intimate Partner Violence
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| 7 strategies for risk management in an ambulatory care setting that will lessen the potential for litigation | Stay within scope of practice
Comply with all regulations/statutes
keep the office safe and in readiness
never leave a patient unattended
comply with HIPAA standards for privacy
Follow all office policies and procedures
document fully only facts
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| 4 strategies for risk management that will lessen the potential for litigation | log all phone conversations and return phone calls in reasonable time
follow up on missed or cancelled appts
never guarantee an outcome or cure
secure informed consent when necessary
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| what is POLST | Physician's Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment
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| The patient Self Determination Act, which includes health care directives, ensures that the patients are able to: | Control Their Own Health Care Decisions
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| What covers the relationship between providers and their patients? | Informed Consent
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| Res ipsa loquitor means? | The things speaks for itself
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| Respondeat Superior is the latin word for: | Providers are responsible for their employees' actions. "Let The Master Speak"
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| A provider is legally bound to a patient until the patient: | No longer needs treatment
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| An order for a physician to appear in court with a medical record: | Subpoena duces tecum
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| When a patient reports a sore throat and the provider takes a swab for a throat culture to diagnose and treat the ailment, this act is considered | an implied contract
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