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Legal, Compliance and Communication
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- 1Inducementnot providing anything of value to a client or potential client in an attempt to improperly induce their business
- 2What is the importance of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?To Honor the privacy of all health and personal information including laboratory orders and results of our client, patients and employees
- 3What is Assault?An unjustifiable attempt to touch another person or the threat to do so.
- 4What is Battery?the intentional touching of another person without consent
- 5What is Medical Malpractice?The delivery of substandard care that results in harm to patient.
- 6What is Duty?expectation of care
- 7What is Derelictionbreach duty of care
- 8What is Injury?Results of error in care
- 9What is Direct Cause?Something the defendant has done to directly affect the patient
- 10What is Negligence?Failure to perform an action consistent with the accepted Standard of Care
- 11What are Statutory Laws?Laws created by a legislative body
- 12What are Case Laws?Laws determined by court decisions
- 13What are Administrative Laws?Laws created by administrative agencies (i.e. the internal Revenue Service, or OSHA)
- 14What is The Scope of Practice?the set of procedures and responsibilities for which one's training has prepared them for and for which one has demonstrated competency.
- 15What is the Accepted Standard of Care?the consensus of medical opinion on patient care in a particular situation
- 16what are damages?monetary compensation
- 17What is the best way to defend against charges of malpractice?Keeping good records to show that the standard of care was not deviated from.
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- Details on working with the complexities of the legal system when in Phlebotomy
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- Pip Fraggle
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