Ethical Responsibilities
This foundational phrase, central to the Hippocratic Oath, requires healthcare workers to avoid causing intentional injury or harm to their patients
What is "Do No Harm"?
This legal term describes an open threat or action that causes a person to experience an immediate fear of bodily harm.
What is assault?
Patients have a fundamental right to expect that all of their personal medical information and treatment details remain strictly private under this concept.
What is confidentiality?
This overachieving federal law regulates and controls the manufacturing and distribution of narcotics, stimulants, and other dangerous drugs by grouping them into five distinct "schedules".
What is the Controlled Substances Act?
What is the definition of Ethitcs?
Systems of principales a society develops to guide decisions about what is right and wrong
This ethical principle emphasizes respecting a patient's independence and their ultimate right to make decisions about their own medical career
What is Respect Autonomy?
This criminal charge involves the physical touching or harming of another person without their explicit consent.
What is battery?
This critical legal and ethical process requires a physician to clearly explain the risks, benefits, an alternatives of a procedure before a patient science permission.
What is informed consent?
This federal agency enforces workplace safety regulations to protect employees from on the job hazards, injuries, an infectious disease exposure.
What is OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?
What is the definition of Invasive Procedures?
Involves punctures or incisions of the skin or intersition of Instruments or foreign material into the body
Also known as beneficence, this guiding ethical principle simply means preforming actions that promote well-being and benefit the patient
If a healthcare provider detains or prevents a mentally competent patient from leaving a facility against their will, they can be sued for this intentional tort.
What is false imprisonment?
This legal document allows individuals to stay in advance exactly what life prolonging treatments they do or do not want if they become terminally ill.
What is a living will?
These state statutes protect citizens and health care professionals from legal liability when providing emergency medical care and good faith at an accident scene.
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
What is the key term for this definition? If patients are held against their will, unless they are mentally incompetent or a danger to themselves
False Imprisonment
This guiding ethical principle required healthcare professionals to treat all patients fairly and equally, regardless of their background, race, or financial status
What is Uphold Justice
This legal term refers to a professional's failure to meet the accepted standard of care, directly resulting in an injury or harm to the patient.
What is malpractice ( Or professional negligence)?
This specific legal document allows a patient to appoint a trusted person or "surrogate" to make medical decisions on their behalf if they become incapacitated.
What is a durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare?
Enacted in 1996, this comprehensive federal law protects patient privacy by establishing strict national standards for safeguarding electronic healthcare data.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
What is the key term for this definition? Employers can be held liable for the behavior and actions of their employees
Respondeat Superior
This term describes a difficult situation where there is no clear right or wrong answer, and a choice must be made between conflicting moral principales
What is an Ethical Dilemma
This legal doctrine dictates that an employer or supervisor can be held legally responsible for the wrongful actions or mistakes of their employees.
What is respondent superior?
Past in 1991, this federal law requires hospitals, nursing homes, and hospicesTo inform adult patients about their legal rights to accept or refuse treatment and create advance directives.
What is the Patient Self-Determination Act?
Under the Controlled Substances Act, drugs placed into the specific classification level have a high potential for abuse and have no currently accepted medical use in the U.S.
What is Schedule l?
Implied Consent is indicated by the patients actions, and Implied Contract is the actions of the parties create the contract