Standard Of Care: What Is Standard Care?

What is standard care? Standard care is a measure of what the community expects and demands from a person from a person in a given situation (Varone, 2012). There are two types of standard care, ordinary and professional. Ordinary standard care is the degree of care that the reasonably prudent person would not run would have exercised under the circumstances and professional standard care is the care that a person with professional skills and training is required to exercise, namely, the care that the reasonably prudent professional of like training and experience would have exercised under the circumstances (Varone, 2012, pp. 254-255). Jury members have the right to rely upon life experiences in order to determine the reasonably prudent person would do(Varone, 2012, p. 256). Professional standard of care is a problem when, the jury must be educated about what the reasonably …show more content…
This process would require an expert witness, learned treatises, laws, and industry-wide standards(Varone, 2012, p. 257). Negligent actions that arise from fire fighting cab acquire a lot of lawsuits, these lawsuits are on the rise. Furthermore, rather than analyze a specific case by determining rather the patient gave permission, inform consent treatment, if not sure of standard care of paramedics or emergency care technicians(Varone, 2012, p. 95). Emergency care providers need to keep themselves knowledgeable on all the laws that governs standard of care in order for them to be protected. What is Statutory immunity? It is statutory immunity protection that is incorporated into a tort