Health Care Careers and Professional Characteristics

Flashcards on health care careers, professional characteristics, leadership, and legal and ethical considerations.

What is competence in healthcare?

A patient's ability to understand information, make medical decisions, and communicate those decisions.

Why is tact important in healthcare?

It involves speaking to patients with good communication and respecting guidelines.

Define 'dependability' in the context of healthcare professionals.

Being reliable and trustworthy.

What does 'discretion' mean for healthcare workers?

Using good judgement and ensuring patient rights are not violated.

Define 'empathy' in healthcare.

Being able to understand another person's feelings and situation.

What does it mean for a healthcare worker to demonstrate responsibility?

Taking ownership of one's actions and being accountable.

What is a psychological barrier in communication?

Someone speaking their own mind, which can impede effective communication.

Give examples of subjective data.

Verbally expressed emotions, backstory leading up to visit, cultural background, and patient's or caregiver's description of ailment.

Give examples of objective data.

Vital signs, auscultations, visual observations, and odors.

Describe an autocratic leader.

A leader who makes decisions independently.

Describe a democratic leader.

A leader who values collaboration and shared responsibility.

Describe a mediator leader.

A leader who resolves conflicts.

Describe a Laisse-faire leader.

A leader who sets rules but allows autonomy.

Define abuse, in a legal and ethical context.

Harming anyone.

What constitutes invasion of privacy in healthcare?

Disclosing medical records or saying patient's private business.

Define assault and battery in a medical setting.

Offensive touching or unwanted things done by a patient or medical personnel.

Define libel.

Written statement that damages a person's reputation or false accusations.

What are ethics?

Moral decisions and avoiding harm.

Define confidentiality.

Keeping information private unless the patient asks to release it.

Define malpractice.

Medical worker fails to meet requirements and fails to meet standards.

Define tort.

Harm on someone or their property.

Define slander.

Orally making false accusations about people.

Define 'competent' in a medical context.

Able to understand and make decisions.

What are criminal laws in healthcare concerned with?

Harm from medical people.

What does civil law address in healthcare?

Patient suffers from negligence of medical people.

What does medical law primarily focus on?

Rights and patient confidentiality.

What is the statue of limitations?

Files lawsuit.

What is a living will?

Allows you to specify what medical treatment ONLY towards your end of life and what you want to do.

What are advance directives?

Legal documents patient can state what treatment they want.

What is Designation of Health Care Surrogate?

Someone can make decisions for you on your behalf.

Define Defamation.

False accusations.

Define False imprisonment.

Restraining a patient