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Ethics and Safety Lecture

This document discusses ethics, safety, and legal considerations for healthcare professionals. It addresses professional ethics standards, the seven principles of biomedical ethics, legal concepts around negligence, malpractice, and patient rights. Safety topics include emergency preparedness, hazardous materials, electrical safety, radiation safety, and fire safety. Guidelines are provided for resolving ethical dilemmas, ensuring safety, and preventing legal issues.

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Ethics and Safety Lecture

This document discusses ethics, safety, and legal considerations for healthcare professionals. It addresses professional ethics standards, the seven principles of biomedical ethics, legal concepts around negligence, malpractice, and patient rights. Safety topics include emergency preparedness, hazardous materials, electrical safety, radiation safety, and fire safety. Guidelines are provided for resolving ethical dilemmas, ensuring safety, and preventing legal issues.

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Ethics and Safety

VALUES AND ETHICS


 Values
 Moral Values
 Ethics
 Ethical Dilemma
 Legal Rights
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
 ARRT Standards of Ethics

 Responsibility and Accountability

 Resolving Ethical problems


Resolving Ethical problems

 List everyone involved and identify


perceptions
 Presume everyone has patient’s best
interest in mind
 Gather relevant information
 Clarify ethical issues
 Determine strengths of each resolution
 Use best resolution
7 Biomedical Ethics
 Autonomy
 Nonmaleficence
 Beneficence
 Justice
 Fidelity
 Veracity
 Confidentiality
LEGAL CONSIDERATION
 State Licensing
 Standards of Care: Professional, Clinical,
Quality Performance Standards
 Informed Consent
 Incident Reports
 Good Samaritan Laws
 Patient Rights
BASIC LEGAL CONCEPTS
 Criminal Law
 Civil Law
 Negligence and Malpractice
 Assault and Battery
 Invasion of Privacy
 False Imprisonment
 Defamation of Character
CRIMINAL
 Individual who threatens society
 Misdemeanors or felonies
 Result is punishment of person accused
CIVIL
 Precedents and principles
 Torts
 Intentional and Unintentional
 Compensates client, not to punish accused
NEGLIGENCE
 When a healthcare professional provides
substandard care.
MALPRACTICE
 Result of professional misconduct
 Patient must prove:
 Tech owed a duty to the patient
 Tech didn’t carry out duty
 Patient was injured
 Patient’s injury was a result of tech’s failure
to carry out the duty
Lack of Communication
 Most common cause for malpractice

 “A patient fell and was injured in the radiology


department of a hospital. The radiologist’s
defense was that the nurse had not filled out the
requisition adequately; therefore, he had had no
knowledge of the patient’s history of being unable
to walk for 6 months. However, the court held the
Radiologist liable for negligence in not remaining
alert to the reasonable possibility that the patient
might faint and fall.”
Doctrine of Respondeat Superior
 Employer will be held liable for an
employee’s negligent act.
– Employer-employee relationship
– Employee must be functioning under the
authority of employer
 Master-servant relationship: right to control
employee’s activities, supervise, pay wage,
discharge employee
LEGAL CONCEPTS CONT…
 Assault
 Battery
 Invasion of Privacy
 False Imprisonment
 Defamation of Character
SAFETY
Emergency Preparedness
 Weather Alerts

 Bomb Threats

 Disaster Plan
Safety Guidelines
 Walk, don’t run  Use locks and good
 Obey warnings body mechanics
 Move cautiously  Never leave patient
 Do not obstruct vision unattended on an x-ray
table
 Never use hands to
compress trash  Keep floors and
hallways unobstructed
 Clean spills quickly
MECHANICAL/ELECTRICAL
SAFETY
 Visual Inspection

 Medical Device Reporting


Electrical Safety Guidelines
 Never attempt repair
 Never pull on cords
 Do not use multiple adapters or ext cords
 Always use 3-pronged plugs
 Avoid contact with water; hands dry
 Do not use equipment with frayed cords
 Keep cords out of doorways and walkways
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
 OSHA Hazardous Communication Rules

 Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)


PREVENTION OF FALLS
 Learn condition of patient
 Keep floors clear
 Side rails always up
 Wheelchairs locked
 NEVER leave patient unattended
FIRE SAFETY
 Pull alarm closest to you
 Remove persons in danger
 Turn off equipment and O2
 Close all doors and windows
RACE Guidelines
 R – Remove and Rescue

 A – Alert, activate alarm and announce

 C – Contain by closing doors and windows

 E - Extinguish
FIRE EXTINGUISHERS
 Paper and wood: Soda and acid water

 Rubbish or wood: Dry Chemical

 Grease or electrical: Carbon Dioxide

 Rubbish, wood, grease, anesthetic:


Antifreeze or water
RADIATION SAFETY
 ALARA

 Time
 Distance
 Shielding

 Hang lead aprons

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