Slides 3: Legal Considerations & Human Body

• legally responsible for harm?

  liability
• understand legal limitations as dictated by laws and statutes?

  liability
• reduce the risk of liability by?

  working within scope of practice
• skills you are authorized to practice?

  scope of practice
• scope of practice is dictated by what?

  profession and state
• ARC certification allows you to perform what on adults, children, and infants?

  CPR/AED, rescue breathing, conscious/unconscious choking
• minimum level of care required by program, national, or state authorities?

  standard of care
• communicate proper info to prevent injury, recognize victim in need, attempt to rescue, provide emergency care are steps for?

  standard of care
• what three factors must have been failed for negligence to occur?

  duty of care, standard of reasonable care, damages
• what occurs to fail standard of reasonable care?

  scope of practice, fell short, or did not prevent further injury
• action of omission tort?

  nonfeseance
• act of commission tort?

  malfeasance
• incorrect tort?

  misfeasance
• tort where someone fails to perform legally obligated duty?

  nonfeseance
• tort where someone goes beyond what they are legally allowed to do?

  malfeseance
• tort where they are legally allowed to do something but do it incorrectly?

  misfeseance
• protects people who have no duty to provide care, act in good faith, aren't negligent, act within scope of training, and do not expect anything in return?

  good samaritan laws
• good samaritan laws do not apply when?

  on duty
• when helping a conscious adult or parent of minor, you should first ask for?

  consent
• when asking for consent, you should do what five things?

  state name, level of training, ask permission, explain suspected condition and plan of care
• if someone isn't conscious or parent of minor isn't available, you should?

  assume consent
• if victim doesn't give consent for help, you should?

  call EMS and document, inform victim, and stay with them
• if you provide care without consent, that can lead to?

  battery
• you can be held legally responsible for what if you leave victim while they are injured?

  abandonment
• you must stay with victim unless what three things?

  scene becomes unsafe, too tired to continue, obvious signs of life
• PHI stands for?

  protected health info
• individually identifiable health info is called?

  PHI
• HIPAA stands for?

  health insurance portability and accountability act
• HIPAA was created in what year?

  1996
• what protects PHI?

  HIPAA
• this helps medical personnel treat victims, create future preventative plans and protocols, and can protect you in the case of a lawsuit?

  document
• position where you are lying on right side?

  right lateral recumbent
• position where you are lying on left side?

  left lateral recumbent
• position where you are almost sitting up with legs stretched out?

  fowler's
• position where legs are elevated above head?

  trendelenburg
• what are the five major cavities?

  cranial, spinal, thoracic, abdominal, pelvic
• what is the average BPM?

  60
• four important arteries?

  carotid, brachial, femoral, radial
• functions of this system are to protect and cool body?

  integumentary
• what gland regulates growth?

  pituitary