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27 Cards in this Set
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When do legal and ethical considerations weave their way into your care and decision making? |
From the moment you approach a patient to begin care prior to the hand off to the EMTs |
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Rules, regulations, and laws that designate how you legally function. |
Scope of practice. |
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Written guide lines or instructions describing assessment and care. |
Protocols. |
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Written physician orders directing care and assessment based on general set of signs and symptoms. |
Off-line medical direction. |
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Physician orders received specific to an active patients signs and symptoms. |
On-line medical direction. |
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When a patient gives permission for care. |
Expressed consent. |
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Assuming permission of an unresponsive patient requiring care. |
Implied consent. |
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A minor who may receive the rights of an adult. |
Emancipated minor. |
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Patient not permitting care. |
Refusal of care. |
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Health insurance portability and accountability act. |
Law regarding confidentially of protected health information. |
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Legal documents giving a persons instructions on medical decisions. |
Advance directives. |
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Written document of a patient requesting cardiac resuscitation not be performed. |
Do not resuscitate order. |
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Legal document created in advance in the event a person in unable to communicate their health care wishes at a time of injury or illness. |
Living will. |
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Document designating a legal decision maker. |
Durable power of attorney. |
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Document designating a legal decision maker for medical decisions. |
Health care proxy. |
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Moral judgments. |
Ethics. |
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A legal wrongdoing? |
Tort. |
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The threat or act of physical harm? |
Assault. |
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Unlawful touching of a person? |
Battery. |
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Leaving a patient after beginning the provision care. |
Abandonment. |
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Failure to follow a standard of care? |
Negligence. |
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Legal requirement to perform care. |
Duty to act. |
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Failure to perform or incorrectly performing an action? |
Breach of duty. |
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Harm caused by the action or inaction of a provider? |
Proximate causation. |
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Types of evidence? |
Fingerprints, Blood and body fluids, wounds, conditions at the scene. |
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Although the laws very by state, many providers are mandated to report suspected crimes of the following? |
Child abuse, domestic violence, Elder abuse, sexual assault, gunshot/violence. |
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Medical terms often include a _____ word and a ______ connected to a ______? |
Root, prefix, suffix. |
