Legal Terminology
It is a wrong committed against a person or a property.
What is a crime?
Unnecessary restraints or solitary confinement
What is false imprisonment?
Basic physiologic needs, Security and safety needs, love affection and belonging needs, self esteem needs.
What are Maslow's Hierarchy of needs?
Health includes a balance of all the components of the human organism.
What is homeostasis?
A healthcare worker convicted for offences as insurance fraud, theft of narcotics or practice without a license.
What is a felony?
A healthcare professional as prematurely stopped caring for a patient who is under their care.
What is abandonment of care?
Nurses must remain aware of the basic primary nursing priorities.
What are survival needs?
The most common causes of lawsuits by healthcare clients for harm such as performing nursing procedures that have not been taught.
What is negligence?
Test, treatments, medications, possible complications, as well as outcomes have been explained to the patient.
What is informed consent?
A threat or attempt verbally or physically to do bodily harm.
What is an assault?
Federal privacy regulation to protect patients' information.
What is HIPAA and patient privacy?
Physical contact with another person without consent even if no physical harm occurred.
What is attery?
The law that defines and regulates the practice of nursing in the United States.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?