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Ethical Laws
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Question | Answer |
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Code of ethics | Guidelines usually expressed in a series of statements that provide ethical tankards of conductor professio to |
Tort law | Describes any civil wrong independence o a contract allows for a remedy in the form of an action for damages. |
Risk management | The efforts of health care provider organization to collect an ultilize data to decrease the chance of harm to patients or staff an age to property. |
Malpractice | Professional misconduct that results in harm to another negligence of a health care professional |
Safe medical device act | Established in 1990 this act requires medical device users to report to the mandated and or FDA. Incidents that resonantly suggest there is a probability that a medical device has caused or contributed to death |
Ethics | Branch of philosophy dealing it’s good conduct and mora values advance |
Abandonment | To leave a patient alone who |
Accreditation | Process whereby businesses educational institutions an |
Advance directive | Written instructions expressing the patients wishes concerning the types and |
Scope of practice | Professional duty i it’s based on state and federal law and on an individuals education and experience moral |
Moral principles | Guides for ethical decision making that include the concern individuals have for th well being of others s |
Latrogenic injury | Injury from activity of health care worker |
Bona fide | In good faith |
Case law | All legal decisions on a single legal subject |
Larceny | Taking property without consent |
Precedent | Court decisions that provides example for future judging |
Perjury | Intentionally lying Nader oath |
Plaintiff | Person who starts lawsuit |
Subpoena | Order to testify or produce documents |
Tort | Civil wrong intentional or unintentionally |
Aeger primo | The patient first |
Doctrine of borrowed servant | One controlling employee greater responsibility that one paying employee |
Doctrine of foreseeability | Know in advance that harm may result |
Res ispa locuitur | “The thing that speaks for itself” harm came from an act the defendant obviously had sole control over |
Primum non nocere | Above all do no harm |
Respodeat superior | Employer is responsible for actions “let the master answer” |
EPA | Environmental protection agency : agency of US government charged With protection human health |
ARC/STSA | Accreditation review council on education in surgical technology and surgical assisting: |
CAAHEP | COMMISSION ON ACCREDITATION OF ALLIED HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS |
Doctrine of personal liability | Person is responsible for his or her actions |