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Law and ethics test1

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Doctor of Osteopathy   A doctor that studies osteopathy  
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Anesthetist   Person who has been trained to administer anesthetic  
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Intraoperative   During surgery; positioning, prepping, foley, surgery, placing EKG, intubate  
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Postoperative   After surgery; patient transferred to PACU, vitals, monitored, patient transported to floor, ICU, or discharge  
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Medical doctor (MD)   licensed physician  
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Perioperative   Occurring in the period immediately before, during, and after surgery  
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Primary goal of surgical intervention   Allow patient to return to best physical/mental state  
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Diagnostic   To determine the nature and case of an illness  
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Palliative   To relieve or alleviate symptoms  
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Prophylactic   To prevent  
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Restorative   Regain the patient's health  
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Type of Hospital   Religious  
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Type of Hospital   Pepriatery  
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Type of Hospital   Non-pofit  
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Type of Hospital   University  
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Type of Hospital   Government  
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Anesthesiologist   Specially trained physician who provides anesthesia to surgical patient  
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Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)   Specially trained  
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Director of Surgery   Is directly responsible for everything and everyone in the operating room suite  
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Nursing assistant/ orderly   Cleans, processes, and stores instruments and supplies  
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Operating Room Registered Nurse   Functions as circulator and supervises all nursing activities in the O.R. may also scrub, usually a member of Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN)  
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Surgical Technologist   Primarily functions as the scrub person on the surgical team  
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Occupational hazard   Considerable standing and walking  
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Occupational hazard   Heavy lifting and moving  
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Occupational hazard   Exposure to infectious disease  
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Occupational hazard   Exposure to radiation  
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Occupational hazard   Possible injury from medical or electrical equipment  
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Occupational hazard   Possible injury from wet floor  
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Occupational hazard   Hours of duty may be long or irregular but are subject to fare labor standards act  
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Occupational hazard   Possible injury due to burning or scalding  
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Occupational hazard   Confined in a hospital  
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Occupational hazard   Rigid aderence to establish procedures  
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Area of employment opportunities   Operating Room  
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Area of employment opportunities   E.R. or trauma  
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Area of employment opportunities   Central processing/supply  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   Checks supplies and equipment needed for surgical procedures  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   Assists the circulator in opening all sterile supplies needed for the procedure  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   May assist with positioning the patient on the surgery table  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   Assists in draping the patient with sterile drapes  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   Make sure O.R. has been properly cleaned  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   Arrange O.R. furniture, so pieces that are a part of sterile field are 18 inches from wall  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   Remove unnecessary equipment  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   Preform hand scrub  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   Don gown and gloves  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   Prepare sterile field by assembling supplies and equipment  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   Counts  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   Gown and glove surgeon and assistant  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   Attach suction and bovie to sterile field  
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Job Responsibilities for ST   Assist in ordering and stocking supplies to maintain current stock  
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Attitude   Mental position  
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Personality   Complex of character traits, attitudes, behaviors, and emotional tendencies that distinguish an individual from others  
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Self-esteem   Confidence and satisfaction in oneself  
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Self-image   Mental concept one has of oneself  
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Assault   Unlawful threat to harm another physically  
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Battery   The carrying out of physically-threatened harm  
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Defendant   Accused  
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Doctrine of reasonable man   Right of patient to expect that professional will meet duties and standards  
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Doctrine of res ipsa loquitur   The occurrence speaks for itself; The master will answer for the acts of the servant  
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Ethics   Rules/standards  
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Liable   To be legally bound  
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Libel   Written defamation  
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Litigation   A lawsuit  
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Malpractice   An act of negligence  
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Plaintiff   One who commences a legal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his/her rights; the complaining party  
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Tort   A legal wrong committed by one person involving injury to another person or loss of or damage to personal property  
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Incompetence   Being unqualified or inadequate to perform a duty or duties  
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Negligence   The lack of care or skills that any person in the same situation would be expected to use  
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Accountability   Responsibilities for which he or she contacted by virtue of employment or learner experience  
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Lack of proper supervision   The supervisor, instructor, or physician is absent while the surgical tech is performing his/her responsibilities, or the supervisor, instruction, or physician is not near enough to the tech to give assistance  
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Liability   Being legally bound, as to make good any loss or damage that occurs in a transaction  
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Surgical conscience   Attitude of truly caring about a patient  
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Surgical conscience   Involves honesty concerning actions  
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Surgical conscience   Capabilities and qualification  
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Surgical conscience   Respect patient right to privacy, property, dignity and identity  
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Surgical conscience   Understanding patient fears and anxieties concerning surgery  
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Surgical conscience   Protecting the patient in all ways  
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Surgical conscience   Internal desire of each surgical team member to give the very best patient care  
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Patient's bill of rights   The right to considerate and respectful care  
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Patient's bill of rights   The right to obtain from the physician complete current information concerning his/her diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis in terms the patient can reasonably expected to understanding  
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Patient's bill of rights   The right from the physician information necessary to give informed consent prior to the start of any procedure and/or treatment  
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Patient's bill of rights   The right to refuse all treatment to the extent permitted by law and be informed of medical consequences of that action  
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Patient's bill of rights   The right to every consideration of privacy concerning the patient's medical care program  
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Patient's bill of rights   The right to expect that all communications and records pertaining to the patient's care are treated as confidential  
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Patient's bill of rights   The right to expect that within its capacity a hospital must make reasonable response to the request of a patient for service  
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Patient's bill of rights   The right to obtain information as to any relationship of the involved hospital to other health care and educational institutions in so far as the patient's care is concerned  
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Patient's bill of rights   The right to be advised if the hospital proposes to engage in or perform human experimentation affecting the patient's care or treatment  
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Patient's bill of rights   The right to expect reasonable continuity of care  
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Patient's bill of rights   The right to examine and receive an explanation of the patient's bill regardless of source of payment  
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Patient's bill of rights   The right to know what hospital rules and regulations apply to the patient's conduct  
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Hippocrates   Father of Medicine  
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Andreas Vesalius   Chief Founder of the Modern Study of Anatomy  
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Ambriose Pare   French army surgeon in the 16th century who revived the use of ligatures to control hemorrhage  
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Macello Malpighi   Father of Histology  
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek   Made simple microscopes  
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Giovanni Battista Morgagni   Founder of pathologic anatomy  
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Ignaz Semmelweis   Required doctors and medical students on his wards to wash their hands  
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Crawford Long   First to discover and use ether to remove small skin tumors from his patients  
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William Morton   Gave the first public demonstration of the use of ether as an anesthetic agent  
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Joseph Lister   Father of modern antiseptic surgery  
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William Halstead   Perfecting a fine-pointed hemostat for clamping bleeding vessels, advocating excellent principles of tissue handling, developing an interrupted silk-suture closure technique, wearing rubber gloves  
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W.T. Bovie   Electro surgical unitis  
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