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Chapter 24 Medical Law and Practice Standards

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Protects individual rights   Constitutional Law  
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Law enacted by federal, state or local legislators. ex. CARE bill.   Statutory Law  
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Administrative laws passed by legislation but issued and enforced by admin body. ex. IEMA   Administrative Law  
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Derived from Common Law of England decided on a case by case basis by judge or jury.   Case or Civil Law  
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Murder or manslaughter. Rare against H.C workers   Felony  
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Criminal negligence, failure to report injury or illness, fraudulent business activities, failure to provide emergency services   Misdemeanors  
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Most common involving claims against health care workers   Tort law  
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Clinical Standard 1   Assessment-Gather information  
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Clinical Standard 2   Analysis/Dtermination  
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Clinical Standard 3   Patient Education  
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Clinical Standard 4   Performance  
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Clinical Standard 5   Evaluation  
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Clinical Standard 6   Implementation  
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Clinical Standard 7   Outcome measures  
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Clinical Standard 8   Documention  
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Set parameters, fed and state regulations, job discriptions, curriculum, professional customs.   Practice Standards  
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an act that causes a person to fear they will be touched in an offensive, insulting, or physically injurious manner with out consent.   Assult  
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Act of harmful or unwarranted or unconsented contact with a person with out consent. Touching with out permission   Battery  
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Illegal detention of a person without consent   False imprisonment  
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Covering up errors in the care of a patient   Fraud  
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Invasion of a persons reputation and good name, includes slander and libel.   Defoamation of Charactor  
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Harmful spoken words about a person   Slander  
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Written or published comments negative about a person   Libel  
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Violating a persons right to protection against unreasonable and unwarrented interference. breech of confidentiality.   Invasion of privacy  
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Failure to use such care as a reasonably prudent health care professional would.   Medical Negligence  
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1. duty to the patient-duty is owed 2. breach of this duty-failure to perform 3. compensable injury-harm with results 4. relationship between injury and breach of duty   4 elements of malpractice  
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Not needed in emergency situation   Consent  
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showing up, getting on the table, walking up to wall bucky, doesnt require knowledge of procedure.   Consent  
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Required when patient is subject to any type of invasive procedure.   Informed Consent  
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Must consist of procedure, benefits, risks, alternatives, and in the patients language.   Informed Consent  
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To be able to give informed consent a patient must   Be of legal age, competent, sign voluntarly, and give a signature.  
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Exams that require informed consent:   Myelograms, MRI injections, Athrograms, IVU, Arteriograms, CT injections, Biopsies and drainages.  
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