health and medical
Task Sheet HST Personal Qualities of Health Care Workers and Legal-Ethical Issues
Name___________________date__________period____1st____
ESSAY: Type three paragraphs on: “An Experience That Changed Me Forever”. (This is a sample college essay question! Save this essay for your files for you’ll need it this year or next. Make the opening sentence a real “interest grabber” and then don’t let up for the remainder. Be compelling and exhibit mature English skills and sincerity. Remove every unnecessary word by re-editing to perfection.
1. Discuss the need for a health care worker to be empathetic vs. the risks of sympathy.
2. Rate yourself in the following terms: Which are your weaknesses?
Honesty: 8 Dependability: 7 Willingness to learn: 9 Patience: 10 Acceptance of criticism: 7 Tact:(sensitivity dealing with difficult issues) 8 Discretion: 10 Self-motivation: 9 Team player: 7
2. Identify four types of abuse:
3. Distinguish civil vs. criminal law: - civil law: which focuses on legal relationships between people and the protection of a person’s rights. Example: contract and torts - criminal law: focuses on wrongs against a person, property, or society. Examples: practicing in health profession without having the required license, misuse of narcotics, death, and murder.
4. What is a tort? - occurs when a person is harmed or injured because a health care provider does not meet the established or expected standards or care. There are many types or civil wrongs that can lead to legal actions. Include: malpractice, negligence, assault and battery, informed consent, invasion of privacy, false imprisonment, abuse, defamation.
5. What is the relationship between the terms “malpractice” and “negligence”?
- malpractice is when the doctor doesn’t use the right skill or methods to cure a patient which leads in injury,
Name___________________date__________period____1st____
ESSAY: Type three paragraphs on: “An Experience That Changed Me Forever”. (This is a sample college essay question! Save this essay for your files for you’ll need it this year or next. Make the opening sentence a real “interest grabber” and then don’t let up for the remainder. Be compelling and exhibit mature English skills and sincerity. Remove every unnecessary word by re-editing to perfection.
1. Discuss the need for a health care worker to be empathetic vs. the risks of sympathy.
2. Rate yourself in the following terms: Which are your weaknesses?
Honesty: 8 Dependability: 7 Willingness to learn: 9 Patience: 10 Acceptance of criticism: 7 Tact:(sensitivity dealing with difficult issues) 8 Discretion: 10 Self-motivation: 9 Team player: 7
2. Identify four types of abuse:
3. Distinguish civil vs. criminal law: - civil law: which focuses on legal relationships between people and the protection of a person’s rights. Example: contract and torts - criminal law: focuses on wrongs against a person, property, or society. Examples: practicing in health profession without having the required license, misuse of narcotics, death, and murder.
4. What is a tort? - occurs when a person is harmed or injured because a health care provider does not meet the established or expected standards or care. There are many types or civil wrongs that can lead to legal actions. Include: malpractice, negligence, assault and battery, informed consent, invasion of privacy, false imprisonment, abuse, defamation.
5. What is the relationship between the terms “malpractice” and “negligence”?
- malpractice is when the doctor doesn’t use the right skill or methods to cure a patient which leads in injury,