Patient Interactions, Ethics, Informatics & Medical Law

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms in patient interaction, communication, ethics, informatics, and medical law for radiologic technology students.

Self-awareness, self regulation, motivation, empathy, social skills

What are the Essential traits for Emotional Intelligence (EI)

Physiologic, safety, Loneliness and love, Esteem, need to know, and understand, aesthetics, self Actualization

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs From the beginning to last

Inpatient

Person admitted to a hospital bed for >24 h for tests or treatment.

Outpatient

Person who receives care or testing without an overnight stay.

(Paralanguage)

Nonverbal Communication

Palpation

The application of light pressure with the fingers to the body

Touch for Emotional Support, Touching for emphasis, palpation

Three types of touch

Birth to 1 year.

Infant Age Range

1 – 3 years.

Toddler Age Range

3 – 5 years.

Preschooler Age Range

5 – 10 years.

School-Age Child Range

10 – 25 years.

Adolescent Age Range

25 – 45 years.

Young Adult Range

45 – 65 years.

Middle-Aged Adult Range

65 years and older.

Mature Adult Range

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, accepting

Kubler-Ross 5 Stages

Objective Data

Perceptible to senses Measurable signs perceived by the senses.signs

Subjective Data

Patient’s feelings, pain level, or opinions. Attitude opinion of observer

Sacred Seven (Localization)

Exact Precise area

Sacred Seven (Chronology)

Duration, frequency, and course since onset.

Sacred Seven (Quality)

Character of the symptoms (e.g., stabbing pain).

Localization, chronology, quality, severity, onset, aggravating, or alleviating factors associated manifestation

Sacred seven

Sacred Seven (Severity)

Intensity or quantity

Sacred Seven (Onset)

What the Patient was doing when it began

Ethics

Standards of conduct or common concern for collective self discipline or control of the Profession within

Laws

Regulations established by a government that are applicable to people within a certain political subdivision or geographic location

Morals

Genuinely accepted customs of right living and conduct, and an individual practice in relation to these customs

Standards of conduct scope of practice

Professional behavior defined by two distinct documents

ARRT Code of Ethics

Statement of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors generated by collective members of a profession standards of professional conduct

Beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, veracity, fidelity, justice

Basic ethical principle

Beneficence

bringing about good.

American registry of radiologic tech technologist

ARRT

Nonmaleficence

preventing harm.

Autonomy

Acting with personal self reliance

Veracity

tell the truth.

Fidelity

Being faithful

Justice

Acting with fairness and equity.

Health Information Management

HIM

Electronic Health Record

EHR

Master Patient Index

MPI

Ancillary reports

Results of imaging studies, labs, pathology, reports, and monitoring of body functions

Problem list

Facilitate continuity of patient care by providing a comprehensive and accessible list of patient problems in one place

Patient portal

Secure online website that gives patients 24 hour access to personal

Health Information System

HIS “Enterprise”

Radiology Information System

RIS “scheduling, and billing.”

Picture Archiving and Communication System

PACS for storing and retrieving digital images.

Tort

patient claimed that they have been wrong or have Sustained some injury, other than a breach of contract for which they believe cause exist for an action for damages

Assault

When a patient believes here she has been threatened in such a way that reason to fear or to expect immediate bodily harm exist

Battery

If no injury arises from unwanted, patient contact any unlawful touching, may constitute

False Imprisonment

when a person is restrained or believes that he or she is being restrained against his or her will

Slander

Spoken word

Libel

Written in comments or pictures

Slander and libel

Defamation

Fraud

A willful an intentional misrepresentation of facts that may cause harm to an individual or result in an individual loss of a right or property

Health insurance, probability, and accountability act 1996

HIPAA

Duty, breach of duty, injury, causation

Four elements for radiologist and rts to be found. Negligent

Negligence

Failure to use such care as a responsibility prudent person would use under similar circumstances

Standard of Care

The degree of skill (proficiency) knowledge and Care, ordinarily possessed and employed by members in good standing within the medical profession

Respondeat Superior

The master speaks for the servant

Corporate Liability

Requires the healthcare provider to be responsible for the quality of care provided

Res Ipsa Loquitur

the thing speaks for itself."

Informed and implied

Two types of consent

Informed

needed prior to an Invasive procedure

Implied

Low risk procedures

Patient Autonomy

Right to refuse treatment, including imaging exams.

Patient’s Bill of Rights

A statement of the rights to which patient deserves a recipient of medical care