EMT-Basic/Preparatory/Medical Legal

Lesson 1.3: Medical/Legal and Ethical Issues

Objectives

By the end of this lesson, the EMT-Basic should be able to:

  1. Define the EMT-Basic scope of practice.
  2. Discuss the importance of Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders and other advance directives and local or state provisions regarding EMS application of such directives.
  3. Define consent and discuss the methods of obtaining consent.
  4. Differentiate between expressed and implied consent.
  5. Explain the role of consent of minors in providing care.
  6. Discuss the implications for the EMT-Basic in patient refusal of transport.
  7. Discuss the issues of abandonment, negligence, and battery and their implications to the EMT-Basic.
  8. State the conditions necessary for the EMT-Basic to have a duty to act.
  9. Explain the importance, necessity, and legality of patient confidentiality.
  10. Discuss the considerations of the EMT-Basic in in issues of organ retrieval.
  11. Differentiate the actions that an EMT-Basic should take to assist in the preservation of a crime scene.
  12. State the conditions that require an EMT-Basic to notify local law enforcement officials.
  13. Explain the role of EMS and the EMT-Basic regarding patients with DNR orders.
  14. Explain the rationale for the needs, benefits, and usage of advance directives.
  15. Explain the rationale for the concept of varying degrees of DNR.
Last modified on 2 January 2011, at 15:07