Brady pre hospital Word Scramble
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If you stop treatment of the patient without tranferring the care to another competent perfessional of an equal or higher level of training and certification or licensure. | Abadonment |
(Instructions written in advance) against resuscitation, signed by the patient, is a legally recoognized document. | Advance Directive |
3 Types of advance directives. | DNR,A living will,A health care durable power of attorney |
A legal document or order that most often governs resuscitation issues only! | DNR |
A willful treat to inflict harm on a patient. | Assault |
The Act of touching a patient unlawfully without his or her consent. | Battery |
Federal regulations that ensure the public access to emergency health care regardless of ability to pay. "Patient Dumping" | Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act(COBRA)(EMTALA) |
You release information to the public in either a written or spoken form that is construted to be damaging to that persons character or reputation or standing in the community. | Defamation |
Legal Obligation to provide service, whether you think the patient needs an ambulance or not. | Duty TO ACT |
Anti-patient dumping statute, Specifically deals with a patient seeking medical care for an emgency condition, whether it is due to an injury or an illness. | Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act(EMTALA) |
The patient has the mental capacity to make a decision, able to rational decision and informed of the assessment and procedures you will be preforming and all pr related risks responsive | Expressed Consent |
patient who is unresponsive, or who is not competent or who is unable to make a rational decision, Applies to the patient who initially refuses your care but then because unresponive incapacitated, or irrational because of illness or injury. | Implied consent |
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