Medical, Ethical, and Legal Responsibilites

A patient was burned on the lip with a hot mouth gag. Which of the following actions would have prevented this incident?

The scrub nurse cooled the item in a basin with sterile water

A patient signs a permission form for surgery, but because of a language barrier, he or she doesn’t fully understand what he or she has signed. This could constitute a liability case for:

Assault and battery

If a patient falls because he or she was left unattended, the OR team member could be cited in a lawsuit for:

abandonment

The legal doctrine that mandates every professional nurse and technician to carry out their duties according to national standards of care practiced throughout the country is the:

Doctrine of reasonable man

The doctrine of respondeat superior refers to:

Employer liability for employee’s negligent conduct

Liability is a legal rule that:

Holds each individual responsible for his or her own acts

Criteria that identify, measure, monitor, and evaluate patient care are:

Quality assurance programs

Failing to observe or act in a situation that individual should have known about and acted on is called:

Negligence

A document in which a person gives instructions about his or her medical care in the event that the individual cannot speak is:

Advanced directive

The legal document

Informed consent

The operative paperwork completed by the RN contains:

Sponges, sharps, and instrument counts; specimens; medications given

The latin phrase aeger primo refers to:

patient first

Events requiring an incident report include:

bullying; equipment failure; incorrect count

The code of ethics of the Association of ST includes:

To follow the principles of asepsis; to report any unethical conduct or practice to proper authorities; to respect & practice the patient’s legal and moral rights for quality patient care

The AHA Patient’s Bill of Rights was adopted in what year?

1972

Ethics is defined as:

A moral obligation that one person owes another person

When you pass the CST exam, the certification is described as:

A recognition by an appropriate body that an individual has met a predetermined standard

HIPPA:

are privacy standard to protect the patients medical records

Risk management objectives for a hospital include:

Minimize risks to patients and employees; control financial loss; collect data to decrease harm to patients and staff

When a negligence suit is filed against the hospital, who is named?

Every person that has played a part in that surgery