Jurisprudence EMS Questions and
Answers | Latest Version | 2025/2026 |
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What does jurisprudence primarily address in emergency care practice?
✔✔The laws and legal principles that govern professional actions and decision-making.
Who establishes professional licensure requirements for emergency care providers?
✔✔State or national regulatory authorities.
What legal concept limits a provider to tasks they are trained and authorized to perform?
✔✔Scope of practice.
What is the legal meaning of consent?
✔✔A patient’s permission to receive care after understanding the situation.
When may consent be legally assumed without verbal agreement?
✔✔When a patient is unconscious or unable to communicate in an emergency.
What does duty to act mean legally?
✔✔An obligation to provide care once a professional relationship is established.
What is abandonment under the law?
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,✔✔Terminating care without proper transfer or continuation.
What is negligence defined as in healthcare law?
✔✔Failure to meet the standard of care expected of a reasonable professional.
What is the standard of care?
✔✔The level of care a similarly trained professional would provide in the same situation.
What four elements are required to prove negligence?
✔✔Duty, breach, causation, and damages.
What is battery in a healthcare legal context?
✔✔Providing treatment without consent.
What constitutes assault in patient care law?
✔✔Threatening actions that create fear of unwanted contact.
What is false imprisonment?
✔✔Restraining or detaining a person without legal authority.
What is informed refusal?
✔✔A patient’s decision to decline care after risks are explained.
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, Who has the right to refuse medical treatment?
✔✔A competent adult patient.
What defines patient competency?
✔✔The ability to understand information and make informed decisions.
What legal protection exists for providers acting honestly during emergencies?
✔✔Good faith protections.
What is confidentiality?
✔✔The legal duty to protect patient information.
When can patient information be legally disclosed?
✔✔With consent or when required by law.
What law governs privacy of health information?
✔✔Health information privacy regulations.
What is mandatory reporting?
✔✔A legal requirement to report specific incidents such as abuse.
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Answers | Latest Version | 2025/2026 |
Correct & Verified
What does jurisprudence primarily address in emergency care practice?
✔✔The laws and legal principles that govern professional actions and decision-making.
Who establishes professional licensure requirements for emergency care providers?
✔✔State or national regulatory authorities.
What legal concept limits a provider to tasks they are trained and authorized to perform?
✔✔Scope of practice.
What is the legal meaning of consent?
✔✔A patient’s permission to receive care after understanding the situation.
When may consent be legally assumed without verbal agreement?
✔✔When a patient is unconscious or unable to communicate in an emergency.
What does duty to act mean legally?
✔✔An obligation to provide care once a professional relationship is established.
What is abandonment under the law?
1
,✔✔Terminating care without proper transfer or continuation.
What is negligence defined as in healthcare law?
✔✔Failure to meet the standard of care expected of a reasonable professional.
What is the standard of care?
✔✔The level of care a similarly trained professional would provide in the same situation.
What four elements are required to prove negligence?
✔✔Duty, breach, causation, and damages.
What is battery in a healthcare legal context?
✔✔Providing treatment without consent.
What constitutes assault in patient care law?
✔✔Threatening actions that create fear of unwanted contact.
What is false imprisonment?
✔✔Restraining or detaining a person without legal authority.
What is informed refusal?
✔✔A patient’s decision to decline care after risks are explained.
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, Who has the right to refuse medical treatment?
✔✔A competent adult patient.
What defines patient competency?
✔✔The ability to understand information and make informed decisions.
What legal protection exists for providers acting honestly during emergencies?
✔✔Good faith protections.
What is confidentiality?
✔✔The legal duty to protect patient information.
When can patient information be legally disclosed?
✔✔With consent or when required by law.
What law governs privacy of health information?
✔✔Health information privacy regulations.
What is mandatory reporting?
✔✔A legal requirement to report specific incidents such as abuse.
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