HTK EKG Week 3 quiz

Key concept of HIPPA. All patients have the right to privacy and all information should remain privileged

• negligence
• patient confidentiality
• informed consent
• defamation of character

Protects the health care professional to provide medical care within the scope of their training without fear of being sued for negligence

• Legal right to act
• Medicare law
• Good Samaritan law
• Nightingale law

Method by which an infectious agents leaves its reservoir

• portal of exit
• portal of entry
• mode of transmission
• susceptible host

specific ways in which microorganisms travel from the reservoir to the susceptible host

• portal of entry
• portal of exit
• mode of transmission
• agent

Failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonable person would give under similar circumstances and someone suffers injury become of another's failure to a required duty

• tort
• battery
• negligence
• invasion of privacy

Wrongful act that results in injury to one person by another

• tort
• battery
• negligence
• confidentiality

consists of injury to another person's reputation, name, or character through spoken(slander) or written (libel) words

• defamation of character
• battery
• invasion of privacy
• negligence

The unprivileged touching of one person by another. When a procedure is to be performed on a patient, the patient must give consent in full knowledge of the procedure and the risk it entails

• invasion of privacy
• battery
• negligence
• defamation

Allows the infectious agents access to the susceptible host

• portal of entry
• portal of exit
• susceptible host
• mode of transmission

The infectious agent enters a person who is not resistant or immune that person is an

• portal of exit
• susceptible host
• reservoirs
• portal of entry