Professional Ethics & Scope of Practice Flashcards
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If a CMA is asked to perform a task that is outside their scope of practice, they should:
Answer: Decline and notify the supervising provider
Performing tasks outside one's scope of practice creates legal liability and patient safety risks; the correct action is to decline and escalate to a qualified provider.
Which organization sets national certification standards for midwifery in the United States?
Answer: American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB)
The AMCB is the certifying body for Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) and Certified Midwives (CMs) in the United States.
Nonmaleficence in midwifery practice means the provider must:
Answer: Avoid causing unnecessary harm through actions or omissions
Nonmaleficence obligates providers to refrain from actions that cause unnecessary harm, balancing risks and benefits in every clinical decision.
Continuing education requirements for midwifery assistants serve which primary purpose?
Answer: Maintaining competency and ensuring up-to-date, evidence-based practice
Continuing education ensures that CMAs maintain current competencies as clinical evidence, technologies, and best practices evolve.
Abandonment of a patient in active labor by a CMA would constitute:
Answer: An ethical and legal violation that endangers patient safety
Leaving a patient in active labor without ensuring safe handoff to a qualified provider constitutes patient abandonment, which is both legally and ethically prohibited.
Which documentation entry is considered legally improper in a patient's medical record?
Answer: Using correction fluid (White-Out) to erase an error
Using correction fluid to hide documentation errors is legally improper; errors must be crossed out with a single line, initialed, dated, and corrected.