UPDATE/PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
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Terms in this set (108)
HIPAA: Confidentiality
EMTALA : Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
Screen, Stabilize, THEN MUST be to Higher level of care and must be
Transfer, accepted into care.
but
1. Expressed
Consent: Three main
2. Implied
types.
3. Informed
Expressed Consent: Verbal or Written Without further information
Mentally, Physically, Psychologically unable to write
or
Implied Consent:
verbalize consent. Assumes patient would want to
receive lifesaving treatment. Emergency Doctrine.
, Legal age/sound mind.
1. Procedure
2. Risks Procedure
Informed Consent:
3. Alternatives
4. Risks of Alternatives
5. Implications if Procedure NOT performed.
1. Abuse
2. Neglect
Mandatory Reporting: 3. Diversion
4. Non-accidental Trauma (GSW, Stab, Animal Bites,
etc)
1. Negligence
2. Assault
Legal Concepts:
3. Battery
4. Abandonment
Negligence: Deviation
from
accepted standard of
care.
Reasonable Person.
FOUR
elements: Duty, Breach,
Harm, Causation.
Placing someone under reasonable apprehension of
Assault:
imminent Battery.
Battery: Harmful/Offensive physical contact without consent.
Leaving Patient AFTER Initiating Care BEFORE
Abandonment: Refusal/AMA BEFORE Transfer to Equal or Greater
Level of Care.
S - Situation
Patient Handoff: SBAR
B - Background
Clear, Concise, Coherent,
A - Assessment
Consistent!
R - Recommendation
, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing.
CISD: Small group of those exposed to same traumatic
event. Occurs 24 -72 hours after.
Critical Incident Stress Management. (Bigger Picture).
Mitigates negative mental and physical health
CISM: sequelae from traumatic events.(pediatric code,
aircrew fatalities, etc.) Individual counseling may be
needed.
1. Assess (audit) the impact of the critical incident on
support personnel and survivors
2. Identify immediate issues surrounding problems
involving "safety" and "security"
3. Use defusing to allow for the ventilation of
thoughts, emotions, and experiences associated with
the event and provide "validation" of possible
reactions
4. Predict events and reactions to come in the
aftermath of the event
5. Conduct a "Systematic Review of the Critical
Incident" and its impact emotionally, cognitively, and
CISD: Critical Incident
physically on survivors. Look for maladaptive
Stress Debriefing.
behaviors or responses to the crisis or trauma
6. Bring "closure" to the incident "anchor" or "ground"
support personnel and survivors to community
resources to initiate or start the rebuilding process
(i.e., help identify possible positive experiences from
the event)
7. Debriefing assists in the "re-entry" process back
into the community or workplace. Debriefing can be
done in large or small groups or one-to-one
depending on the situation. Debriefing is not a
critique but a systematic review of the events
leading to, during and after the crisis situation