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3 Medicolegal Aspects of Surgical Technology Student's Name KEY TERMS Write the definition for each term. 1. Abandonment 2. Accountability 3. Administrative law 4. Advance directive: 3. Damages 6. Defamation 7. Delegation 8. Deposition: 9. Dilemma: 10. Ethical dilemma: 11. Ethics 12. Evidenced based practice 13. Hospital policy 14. Incident report 15. Informed consent 16. Insurance 17. Laws 18. Liable: 19. Libel 20. Living will 2L Malpractice 22. Medical ethics: 23. Medical power of attorney 14 Our Medical Aspects of Surge th
24. Negligence 25. Perjury 26. Practice acts 27. Professional ethics 28 Punitive: 29. Regulations 30. Retained forrige object. 31. Safe Medical Devices Act 32. Sentinel event 31. Sexual harassment: 3. Stander 35. Standard of conduct: 16. Statutes 37. Subpoena 38. TIMEOUT 39. Tort: 40. Unretrieved device fragment SHORT ANSWERS Provide a short answer for each question or statement. 1. Describe a sentinel event and what categorizes something as a sentinel event. 2. What are the requirements for the delegation of a task? 3. What is accountability, and how does it apply to the surgical technologist's role in the health care facility? 15 DAVO
4. What does the Latin phrase respondearenor mean? 5. Who is responsible when a delegated task results in patient harm or injury? 6. In legal terms, what does it mean for a person to "do no harm Contrast that with what it means to the operating Toom team to "do no harm." Are they the same? 7. Can an approved hospital policy contradict the law of the state? 8. What is negligence? 9. What are the four elements of negligence that must be proven in a lawsuit? 10. Under what circumstances is it appropriate for a surgical technologist to refuse to take part in certain types of procedures? 1. Why is documentation so important? Explain the medical consequences of poor documentation.
MATCHING Choose from the terms listed and match them with their most correct description. You may use the same answer more than once. 1. Decisions made by a court based on previous similar legal cases a. Hospital policy and decisions b. Statutes 2. Standards that meet or exceed the Joint Commission c. Administrative law 3. State laws d. Legal doctrines 4. Violation may result in disciplinary action by the facility 5. Regulations passed by agencies and departments of the government such as the FDA. 6. Practice acts 7. Logical beneficial, and created by specialists within the organization 8. Signed into law by its governor 9. Based on precedence from previous cases. 10. Roles established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the handling of medical waste. MULTIPLE CHOICE Choose the correct answer for the question or statement. 1. You are scrubbed on a case in which the surgeons are 4. is the threat or attempt to harm another discussing the patient's personal affairs that have no person bearing on the surgical procedure or medical a. Battery condition. These comments make you feel b. False imprisonment uncomfortable, you would consider this: c. Assault a. Not your concer d. Slander b. Lateral abuse c. Sexual harassment S. involves contact with intent to injure and d. Slander applies even if no injury occurred. .. Battery 2. Tammy is a program director who frequently talks b. False imprisonment about her supervisor Tammy informs the class that .. Assault her supervisor is uneducated and does not know the d. Slander standards and guidelines. These comments are: a. Defamation 6. Restraints become a method of managing a group of b. Negligent patients all in one place, possibly against their will. C Assault This type of case might be considered as d. Slander a. Battery b False imprisonment 3 means deliberate efforts to erode the c. Assault Teputation of another person d. Slander a. Defamation b. Assault 7. HIPAA protects a patient's and other c. Battery health information through its privacy rule. d. Stander a. Medical records b. Opinions c. Legal record including past convictions d. Constitutional rights 17 Crypto 22 De Medicalegal Aspects of Surgical Technology
patient is this 14. If a patient is entally incompetent or representa permanent legal record who may ug the informed comenten of the praction with health care providers and services A responsible guardian 1. Latory reset h An agency representative Surgical consent c. A court representative Documentation All of the above d. Forme Which of the following legal doctrines representi is the process in which the Resiplaaditor? attending practitioner explain the risks, benefits Let the master respond and seatives of the surgery to the patient "The thing speaks for itself a Healthy c. "Fins do no harm Signed consent C. Informed consent d Doctrine of foreseeability d. Discharge criteria 16. In an effort to prevent harm to the point to be 10 is the pa's ability professional bald be able to predict specific to understand certain medical terminology edin associated with their duties that could be the media and in edocational settings parient. Which of the following legal doctrines a informed consent HIPAA Prime ROCA c Health literacy Resultor d. Assessment benebit c. Responder superior d. Doctrine of forsecability 11. The surgical consent is signed by the 2. Nurse and anesthesiologist 17. What is the most frequent cause of injury in se Surgeon and surpical technologist operating room? 6. Patient, surgeon, and witness a Born Patient PCA, and surgeon hall 12. A Incorrect patient positioning ia legal document that specifically 4. Wong site surgery Nates the type of medical intervention or treatment the patient desires, in the event they are able to 18. While transporting a patient to the OR. the speak for themselves in the future. Medical power of attorney realized she left the patient's oxygen tank in Living will holding. She leaves the patient on the purney in the C DNR hallway outside the door to the OR while she d. None of the above pet the O, tanks meanwhile the patient needed to the restroom and tried to get off the game andet 1.3. The surgical technologist has the right to shin on the floor. Which of the following is the circulate from participation in certain types of cases that charged wide violate his or her ethical, moral, or religious values Assal This is known as b. Battery a. Ethical dilemmas Abandono Refusal to perform an assigned task Slander Moral dilemma d. All the above 18 đai 1 lầu 14h đau la 41 8 4k halogy DOWODEX
CASE STUDIES 1. Read the following case study and answer the questions based on your knowledge of unintentional forts or civil wrongs. You have just been served with legal documents that suggest that you were scrubbed in on a procedure in which your patient was burned. You are charged with negligence. For what reasons could you be charged with negligence in this situation? 2. Read through the following case study. The areas of the scenario that are lettered and Italiciod are areas of potential negligence the duties are not performed correctly Write a brief sentence about each of the lottered and italicized areas to describe which area of civil or criminal liability applies Your patient is being transported to the preanesthesia unit (PAU) by the transport team. The patients accompanied by her neighbor who will drive the patient home after the procedure When the team gots to the PAU, the room is empty. The transport team (a) leaves the patient and (b) the chart in the room to search for the nurse in charge. When the nurse gets to the room, she sedates the patient, as ordered on the chart by the anesthesiologist. The nurse notices that the patient has several necklaces on. She knows that the patient should not go into surgery wearing these, so she asks the patient to (c) remove the necklaces. She puts them loosely on the end of the patient's bed. The nurse has been in the room for about 20 minutes and needs to check on the lab results. She asks a high school nurse's aide student (a) to stand in the room with the patient while she is gone. The aido is instructed to "holter for help" if she needs something When the nurse returns to the room, she notices that the consent form has not been signed. She (e) asks the patient to sign the consent, and asks the nurse's aide to witness b c. d. C Da Mel Arpects of surgical
3. Read the following case study and answer the questions based on your knowledge of the scope and practice for a surgical technologist You are a surgical technologist who has been hired as a new graduate in the certified surgical technologist is acting as your preceptor. You have been , hernia procedure. You have never worked with this surgeon boforo. Once the procedure begins, the surgeon ask you to administer the local anesthetic. You know that as a surgical technologist, you are not allowed to administer a. Are you performing tasks delegated by the surgeon? b. Is administration of a local anesthetic within your scope of practice! e. Can you perform this task if the surgeon states that he will take the responsibility? d. What should you do in this sitantica? 20 Chow Medical Aspects of Surical Technology Grote