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Blinn Medical Legal
Paramedic Medical Legal
Question | Answer |
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The range of duties and skills paramedics are allowed and expected to perform: | Scope of practice |
Tort law is a branch of this type of law: | Civil law |
These laws protect individuals who for example, stop at the scene of a wreck and attempt to help someone: | Good Samaritan laws |
This is defined as a deviation from accepted standards of care recognized by the law: | Negligence |
A legal obligation to perform care is: | Duty to act |
The second part of negligence that must be proven is: | Breach of duty |
The degree of care that would be expected by a similar paramedic under similar circumstances is: | Standard of care |
We operate in EMS under whose license? | Medical Director |
Releasing or discussing in public a patient's history or illness would be a violation of: | Confidentiality |
This occurs when a person makes an intentional false communication that injures another person's reputation or good name: | Defamation |
Injuring someone's character through writing: | Libel |
Injuring someone's character through spoken word: | Slander |
This type of consent is when the individual has given consent based on full disclosure of information. | Informed consent |
This type of consent is when the individual directly grants permission to treat them ( example being sticking out their arm): | Expressed consent |
An unconscious patient can be treated under what type of consent: | Implied contest |
This type of consent might be used for a patient under arrest who law enforcement officers determine need treatment: | Involuntary consent |
Usually a person under 18 years old is considered a: | Minor |
Terminating the paramedic/patient relationship without providing for continuing care is: | Abandonment |
Threatening to hit someone is considered: | Assault |
Unlawful touching of another individual without consent is: | Battery |
The minimum amount of force necessary to ensure the patient does not injury themselves or others is: | Reasonable force |
Taking someone to the hospital without their consent is considered: | False imprisonment |
If a person has this type of order, it is valid, and the patient is pulseless, the Paramedic should not begin care | DNR |
A legal document that allows a person to specify the kinds of medical treatment he wishes to receive is: | Living will |
The performance of a legal act that is harmful; example being a intubation tube placed in the esophagus, fails to confirm tube, and leaves the tube in place is): | Misfeasance |