Legal & Ethical Responsibilities (Updated)
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| show | Torts
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| Must know and follow the state laws that set standards for their profession. | show 🗑
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| Permitted for some procedures. | show 🗑
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| show | assault
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| Includes the unlawful touching of another person without consent. | show 🗑
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| No procedure should be performed if | show 🗑
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| show | Abuse
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| show | A person with a legal disability
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| Is always responsible for the actions of an agent. | show 🗑
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| show | privileged communication.
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| The growing use of computerized records in health care has created a dilemma in maintaining | show 🗑
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| show | health care providers.
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| show | residents in long-term care facilities.
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| show | his or her spouse if both are residents in the facility.
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| A durable power of attorney for health care can be given to | show 🗑
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| show | tips or gifts for care that has been provided to a patient.
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| show | information on a patient’s record.
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| A patient has the right to | show 🗑
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| Must be used when a contract is explained to a non-English-speaking individual. | show 🗑
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| Occurs when an intimate partner uses threatening, manipulative, aggressive, or violent behavior to maintain power and control over another person. | show 🗑
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| show | Confidential patient information
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| show | relationship of a hospital to any other health care and educational institutions.
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| show | A patient’s living will
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| show | A DNR order
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| show | negligence
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| If a health care worker sends information to an insurance company without the patient’s written consent, this can be ____. | show 🗑
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| show | malpractice
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| If a patient is physically restrained without proper authorization or justification, this can lead to a charge of ____. | show 🗑
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| show | abuse
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| show | libel
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| A set of principles relating to what is morally right or wrong are known as ____. | show 🗑
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| A legal document that allows an individual to state what measures should or should not be taken to prolong life when a condition is terminal is a ____. | show 🗑
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| show | informed consent
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| Writing threats or abusive statements is an example of ____. | show 🗑
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| show | Requirements of the Patient Self-Determination Act.
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| Poor personal hygiene, aggressive or withdrawn behavior, unexplained bruises, fractures, burns, or injuries are signs or symptoms of | show 🗑
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| show | tort
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| show | civil law
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| show | malpractice
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| show | negligence
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| show | invasion of privacy
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| A health care worker shouts or swears at a patient. | show 🗑
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| show | slander
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| show | offer, acceptance, consideration
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| An obligation understood without verbally expressed terms | show 🗑
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| show | expressed contract
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| show | Individuals who have a legal disability.
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| show | births, deaths, injuries caused by violence, drug abuse, communicable diseases, sexually transmitted diseases
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| When health care records are disposed of after the legal time for retention they are | show 🗑
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| How should an error be corrected on a written health care record? | show 🗑
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| show | limit personnel who have access to information, require passwords in order to access information, monitor and evaluate computer use
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| Putting the saving of life and promotion of health above all else; making every effort to keep the patient as comfortable as possible and to preserve life; respecting the patient’s choice to die peacefully and with dignity are called: | show 🗑
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| show | Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)
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| show | both you and your employer
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| Being entitled to free care regardless of circumstances is not a | show 🗑
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| A law that focuses on wrongs against a person is called a | show 🗑
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| show | births, deaths, injuries caused by violence that require police involvement, communicable diseases, and sexually transmitted diseases.
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| show | Criminal law
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| show | Malpractice
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| show | Negligence
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| An EMT is charged with battery. What did the EMT do? | show 🗑
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| A dental student tells her friends that a hygienist she works with has a drinking problem. If this is not true, the assistant could be guilty of; | show 🗑
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| show | Implied contract
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| An angry patient writes a letter to the newspaper editor about a local psychologist. The allegations in the letter are clearly untrue and damaging to the psychologist's practice. The letter writer could be guilty of: | show 🗑
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| A patient with a legal disability cannot: | show 🗑
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| show | Use of passwords
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| show | a copy of the chart.
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| When it comes to working with written patient records, what can a health care worker do? | show 🗑
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| An 18 year old female comes to the emergency room. The doctor is absolutely sure she was beaten, but she says she fell. What should the doctor do? | show 🗑
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| HIPPA is MOSTLY about: | show 🗑
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| show | Portability
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