Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues Quiz
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Lividity in a patient can tell you:
A. How the patient died
B. Their temperature
C. How they were positioned when they died
D. Their age at the time of death
A patients willingness to donate his or her organs is commonly documented on their
A. DNR order
B. passport
C. social security card
D. drivers license
This is a set of rules, regulations, and laws that tell how you legally function as an EMT
A. Scope of Function
B. Scope of protocols
C. Scope of practice
D. Scope of oversight
What is another name for decomposition
A. decapitation
B. lividity
C. putrefacation
D. rigor
Pt (patient) acknowledges he/she wants you to provide care/transport
A. Implied
B. Informed
C. Expressed
D. Involuntary
If an action or procedure that was performed on a patient, but not recorded on a written report:
A. it can be qualified by the charge Medic
B. it can be used to show haphazmat emt
C. The partner can back you up
D. It didnt happen
An important safeguard against legal implication is
A. responding to every call with lights and sirens
B. write a complete and accurate patient care report
C. check ambulance equipment once a week
Member of the EMS system who provides pre-arrival instructions to callers, thereby helping to initiate lifesaving care before EMS personnel arrive:
A. Emergency Medical Dispatcher (EMD)
B. Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)
C. Emergency Medical Responder (EMR)
D. Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT)
What does HIPAA stand for?
A. Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
B. Health Insurance Probability and Peace Act
C. Health Insurance Privacy & Accountability Act
D. Health Insurance Portability & Assurability Act
Permission for care given directly by the patients nodded head.
A. Informed consent
B. Expressed consent
C. Surrogate consent
D. Implied consent
All care provided by EMS personnel within an EMS system is authorized by a(n):
A. Medical Director
B. Fire Chief
C. Ambulance Supervisor
D. Nursing Supervisor
The EMT has a legal duty to act if he or she is
A. off duty and witnesses a major car accident
B. a volunteer, is on duty, and is dispatched on a call
C. off work, out of his or her jurisdiction and sees a man choking
An emancipated minor is:
A. child who is injured in school, but the parent is at work
B. patient who has been judged mental by the courts
C. child who is injured while working
D. individual who is under age but lives independently of their parents
In EMS where does the largest risk for a lawsuit occur.
A. When lifting a patient
B. When transporting the patient
C. When obtaining a patient refusal
D. When documenting accurate vital signs
Legal document that either provide instruction on a patients medical decisions such as do they want antibiotics, or blood transfusions.
A. DNR
B. Living will
C. Advance Directives
D. POLST