pt.2 Chapter 02 Review: Legal Concepts, Risk Management, and Ethical Issues pt.2

If a patient is injured by a fire caused by a pooled flammable prep solution such as alcohol, the hospital has full liability.

True

The general rights and responsibilities of health care legislation are reflected in the:

Patient Care Partnership

Primum non nocere means:

above all, do no harm

Res ipsa loquitur means:

the thing speaks for itself

An advance directive is a written instruction dealing with the right of an incapacitated patient to self-determination.

True

Surgical technologists do not have to deal with questions of right or wrong.

False

Informed consent must be given only in person; it may never be given over telephone or telegraph lines.

False

A formal written accusation from a grand jury is called:

indictment

The omission or commission of an act that a reasonable and prudent individual would not do under the same conditions is called

negligence