Listen "EMT - Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues - Lecture 3 of 6 Foundation Block - Season 2"
Episode Synopsis
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In this module, students will become familiar with the legal and ethical side to emergency medicine. We will discuss issues associated with Advanced Directives, Consent, Confidentiality, and End of Life Issues. If there is any area an EMT will get in trouble it is this area.
Knowledge Domains:
Consent, what is it and how does it apply to emergency medicine?
Understand the several types of consent:
Actual, Expressed
Implied
Involuntary
Minors and consent
When can you forcible restrain a patient?
EMT’s roles and responsibilities when a patient refuses treatment and transport.
HIPPA
DNRs and EMS
Signs of Death
Physical
Presumptive
Definitive
Organ Donors
Standards of Care
Scope of Practice
Duty to Act
EMT can commit the following:
Negligence
Abandonment
Assault
Battery
Kidnapping
Legal reporting requirements of the EMT
Ethics and morality
Role of the EMT in court
https://patron.podbean.com/thepublicsafetyguru
In this module, students will become familiar with the legal and ethical side to emergency medicine. We will discuss issues associated with Advanced Directives, Consent, Confidentiality, and End of Life Issues. If there is any area an EMT will get in trouble it is this area.
Knowledge Domains:
Consent, what is it and how does it apply to emergency medicine?
Understand the several types of consent:
Actual, Expressed
Implied
Involuntary
Minors and consent
When can you forcible restrain a patient?
EMT’s roles and responsibilities when a patient refuses treatment and transport.
HIPPA
DNRs and EMS
Signs of Death
Physical
Presumptive
Definitive
Organ Donors
Standards of Care
Scope of Practice
Duty to Act
EMT can commit the following:
Negligence
Abandonment
Assault
Battery
Kidnapping
Legal reporting requirements of the EMT
Ethics and morality
Role of the EMT in court
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