1. Understanding Legal Principles in Health Care
Healthcare Scenarios. Choose the best answer from your definitions.
It’s possible some may have multiple choices

2. ABUSE/BATTERY
1. A nursing assistant who is assigned to bathe a psychiatric patient uses unauthorized physical restraints to keep the patient still while she is working.

3. Malpractice
2. During a kidney transplant operation, the surgical team provides a woman who has O-positive blood with a kidney removed from a donor who has type A blood. The patient has a severe reaction and dies.

4. BATTERY
3. A physician assistant in the emergency room begins to place a blood pressure cuff on the arm of a car accident victim. Both of the patient’s arms are bruised from the accident, and the patient requests that a blood pressure cuff not be used. The physician assistant insists that it is necessary and proceeds to use the blood pressure cuff against the patient’s wishes, causing great pain.

5. ASSAULT
5. A young mother brings her toddler into the reception area at the pediatrician’s office. The toddler is in pain and is screaming loudly, upsetting the other patients. The parent of another patient approaches the mother, raises her hand, and says, “If you can’t stop your child from crying, I can! All it takes is a good slap.”

6. BATTERY
5.An appendectomy is performed on a 27-year-old patient, who later claims that the surgery was unnecessary. The medical staff had neglected to ask him to sign an informed consent form.

7. ABUSE
6. An 80-year-old woman is brought to the doctor’s office by her daughter for a routine checkup. Every time the doctor asks the woman a question, her daughter answers for her. When the doctor asks the daughter to allow her mother to answer, the daughter says, “Oh, she’s too old and stupid to understand.”

8. Negligence
7. A man is brought to the emergency room complaining of chest pain. The busy ER doctor determines that the cause is gastrointestinal reflux disease (GERD) and sends him home with instructions to change his diet. Three days later, the man has a massive heart attack and dies.

9. Invasion of Privacy
8. During her routine annual physical, a woman is newly diagnosed with high cholesterol. The doctor explains the different measures she can take to reduce her cholesterol level, and she decides to try modifying her diet instead of taking medication. Three weeks later, she begins receiving advertisements from various drug companies for cholesterol medications.