JBL EMT: Chapter 3 Questions With Complete Solutions

Written document that authorizes the EMT not to attempt resuscitation effort. correct answer: DNR Written documentation that specifies medical treatment for a competent patient if they are unable to make decisions; living will/health care directive correct answer: Advance Directive Statutory provisions enacted by many states to protect citizens from liability for errors and omissions in giving good faith emergency medical care, unless there is wanton, gross or willful negligence correct answer: Good Samaritan Law state law that outlines the care that an EMT is able to provide correct answer: Scope of Practice written, accepted levels of emergency care expected by reason of training and profession; written by legal or professional organizations so that patients are not exposed to the unreasonable risk of harm correct answer: Standard of Care Failure to provide standard of care correct answer: Negligence Relating to jurisprudence (law) or forensic medicine correct answer: Medicolegal type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is given treatment under the legal assumption that treatment was desired correct answer: Implied Consent the act of physically preventing an individual from initiating any physical action correct answer: Forcible Restraint a type of consent in which a patient gives verbal or nonverbal authorization for a provision of care or transport correct answer: Expressed Consent Legal responsibility to provide care correct answer: Duty to Act Granted permission to render care correct answer: Consent Unlawfully placing a patient in fear of bodily harm correct answer: Assault Unilateral termination of care by the EMT without the patient's consent and without making provisions for transferring care to another medical professional with the skills and training necessary to meet the needs of the patient correct answer: Abandonment unlawfully touching a patient or providing emergency care without consent correct answer: Battery a process in which a person, an institution, or program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predeter