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Surgical Tech Chapter 2 Legal Concepts, Risk Management, and Ethical Issues fully solved &updated
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Surgical Tech Chapter 2: LegalConcepts, Risk Management, and
Ethical Issues fully solved
&updated 2024-2025
affidavit - answer voluntary statement of facts sworn before an authority
to be true.
allegation - answer A statement one expects to prove true
battery - answer ______ is the actual act of harmful or unwarranted contact
with a person.
Patient Care Partnership - answer The general rights and responsibilities
of health care legislation are reflected in the:
The thing speaks for itself - answer Res ipsa loquitur means:
two - answer If informed consent cannot be given, how many consulting
physicians are needed for consent, not including the operative surgeon?
Everybody in the operating room (OR) - answer Whose responsibility is it
to ensure the right patient and the right site?
negligence - answer The omission or commission of an act that a
reasonable and prudent individual would not do under the same
conditions is called:
surgeon - answer The person who has the ultimate responsibility for
securing written informed consent is the:
, above all, do no harm - answer Primum non nocere means:
larceny - answer taking another's property without consent
accreditation - answer 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
Aeger primo - answer "The patient first" motto of the AST
AHA patient's bill of rights - answer Adopted by American hospital
association in 1972. A series of 12 rights afforded to patients during a
hospital stay. In 2003 it became known as Patient care partnership
AST guideline statement- Neutral zone - answer AKA: "no pass or no
touch" technique. An area designated within the sterile field in which
sharps may be safely placed by one person and retrieved by another. Area
that ensures no person-to-person passing occurs.
autonomy - answer independence; the condition of having control over
one's life, or self-governing
credentialing - answer 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
defendant - answer the person accused
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