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| written assent of a patient to receive a proposed treatment |
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| the concept that patients are to be treated as individuals and informed about procedures to facilitate appropriate decisions |
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| patient care expectations |
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| high quality care, skill, compassion, and respect |
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| patients have the right to know |
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| the identity of the staff and whether they are students, residents, or trainees |
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| what type of treatments require informed consent |
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| surgery, invasive procedures, or experimental treatments |
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| what type of questions should be directed at the physician |
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| questions about alternative therapies, failure rate, risks |
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| who bears the responsibility for informing patients concerning procedures |
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| 3 things that allow for the omission of informed consent |
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| patient can't give consent, life is at risk, immediate treatment is necessary to avoid risk |
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| a predetermined choice made to inform others of the ways in which the patient wishes to be treated while incompetent |
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| failure to obtain consent can result in |
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| torts: assault, battery, false imprisonment, and negligence |
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| a deliberate act wherein one person threatens to harm another person without consent and the victim perceives that the other has the ability to carry out the threat |
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| touching to which the victim did not consent |
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| criteria for using restraints |
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| to protect patient or others, least intrusive restrain possible, regular reassessment of need to restrain, its discontinued as soon as possible |
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| unlawful confinement of a person within a fixed area |
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| actions that were not intended to do harm (medical malpractice) |
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| what falls under the jurisdiction of an unintentional tort |
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| negligence, failure to obtain consent, breach of confidentiality, |
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| how is unintentional tort demonstrated |
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| duty was owed, duty is breached, harm results from that breach |
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| elements of informed consent |
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| voluntary, mentally competent, informed, risks and benefits, written, signed and witnessed, 7+ years old included |
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| a consent form must never |
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| be used in place of an oral explanation |
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| the duty owed by health professionals to protect the privacy of patient information |
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| information that could be harmful if reveled |
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| exceptions to confidentiality |
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| certain type of wounds, communicable diseases, MVA, abuse, birth defects, drug addiction, and industrial accidents |
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| health insurance portability and accountability act |
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| provide info access to health info, improve quality of health care, improve efficiency/effectiveness health care delivery |
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| the legal obligation to report a variety of medical conditions and incidents |
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| duty owed to protect patient privacy |
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| making of a false statement to a third party that is harmful to another's reputation |
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