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Ethical Laws
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |