Surgical Technology for the Surgical
Technologist - Chapter 2 Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
accountability - ✔✔to be held responsible for, obligation employees have to their
manager for the successful completion of an assigned task
Accreditation - ✔✔Process whereby businesses, educational institutions and programs,
and health care organizations are determined to meet standards and performance
criteria as established by an accrediting agency. Established CAAHEP or ABHES
advance directive - ✔✔a document stating a person's wishes about health care when
that person cannot make his or her own decisions
negligence - ✔✔omission or commission of an act that a reasonable or prudent person
would not do under the same conditions.
risk management - ✔✔steps taken to minimize danger, hazard, and liability.
affidavit - ✔✔voluntary statement of facts sworn before an authority to be true.
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, credentialing - ✔✔process by which an agency or organization establishes a minimum
knowledge base for a given health care profession and awards a credential to
individuals that meet the minimum knowledge level. Can be by:
Registration
Certification
Licensure
ethics - ✔✔branch of philosophy dealing with good conduct and moral values
formalism - ✔✔a general ethical approach to right or wrong in which an act is not
judged by its consequences, but rather is itself in accord with what is right or wrong
incident report - ✔✔documentation that describes any injury or potential for injury
suffered by a patient in a healthcare agency
liability - ✔✔an obligation to do or not do something, the state of being legally
responsible for the harm one causes another person
malpractice - ✔✔professional misconduct that results in harm to another
moral principles - ✔✔guides for ethical decision making that include the concern that
we have for the well being of others, respect for individual autonomy, basic justice,
prevention of harm to others, and refusal to take unfair advantage.
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Technologist - Chapter 2 Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
accountability - ✔✔to be held responsible for, obligation employees have to their
manager for the successful completion of an assigned task
Accreditation - ✔✔Process whereby businesses, educational institutions and programs,
and health care organizations are determined to meet standards and performance
criteria as established by an accrediting agency. Established CAAHEP or ABHES
advance directive - ✔✔a document stating a person's wishes about health care when
that person cannot make his or her own decisions
negligence - ✔✔omission or commission of an act that a reasonable or prudent person
would not do under the same conditions.
risk management - ✔✔steps taken to minimize danger, hazard, and liability.
affidavit - ✔✔voluntary statement of facts sworn before an authority to be true.
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, credentialing - ✔✔process by which an agency or organization establishes a minimum
knowledge base for a given health care profession and awards a credential to
individuals that meet the minimum knowledge level. Can be by:
Registration
Certification
Licensure
ethics - ✔✔branch of philosophy dealing with good conduct and moral values
formalism - ✔✔a general ethical approach to right or wrong in which an act is not
judged by its consequences, but rather is itself in accord with what is right or wrong
incident report - ✔✔documentation that describes any injury or potential for injury
suffered by a patient in a healthcare agency
liability - ✔✔an obligation to do or not do something, the state of being legally
responsible for the harm one causes another person
malpractice - ✔✔professional misconduct that results in harm to another
moral principles - ✔✔guides for ethical decision making that include the concern that
we have for the well being of others, respect for individual autonomy, basic justice,
prevention of harm to others, and refusal to take unfair advantage.
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