Legal Vocabulary
A person ensuring a patient's rights are protected, they are properly cared for, and they are respected.
What is an "ombudsman"?
What is another name for the Patients Bill of Rights?
What is the "Patient Care Partnership"
This law protects information regarding patient health insurance, billing information, and medical records.
What is "HIPAA"? (Which stands for...)
Employee safety agency
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
Failure of a professional by ignorance or negligence to properly serve a patient resulting in injury or loss
What is malpractice?
A governmental authority gives permission to a person or health care organization to operate or work in a profession.
What is "licensure"?
When patients receive all information from a provider necessary to be fully informed, then they may give _________ ________ for procedures and treatments.
What is informed consent?
Law that ensures patients are informed of their rights regarding advance directives when they are admitted
Authority on infection control and prevention of disease
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Threat or attempt to injure
What is assault?
Performing only those skills that a health care provider has been trained and has been legally permitted to do.
What is "scope of practice"?
Legal document prepared by a pt giving instructions about health care to be provided if patient cannot give instructions themselves.
What is a living will?
Implements basic rights for nursing home residents and guidelines for nursing home facilities
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act?
Ensures the safety of our food supply, drugs, and biological products
What is the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration?
A doctor operates on a pt without obtaining informed consent.
What is battery?
A list of individuals on an official record who meet qualifications for an occupation.
What is "registration"?
Speaking to a newspaper about a famous pt
What is invasion of privacy?
Eliminated ability of health insurance companies to decline pediatric patients with pre-existing conditions
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Part of US government that houses other agencies such as the FDA, NIH, and the CDC
What is the US Dept of Health and Human Services?
A licensed health provider forgets to put the bed rails up and a pt falls out of bed and breaks a hip.
What is negligence?
A family member/friend trusted to make health care decisions on behalf of a patient.
What is a health care proxy?
Ongoing health management of a patient rather than being abandoned
What is continuity of care?
Legal document appointing an agent to make health care decisions for a principal if necessary
What is a durable power of attorney?
The two forms of defamation
What are slander and libel?
At least three factors/conditions that makes a pt legally disabled
What are: being a minor, being unconscious or semi-conscious, being under the influence of chemicals such as alcohol or drugs, or being mentally incompetent.
What are births, deaths, injuries caused by violence, drug abuse, communicable diseases, STD's?
What are the two types of advance directives?
What are the durable POA and the living will?
Keeping a pt in the hospital against their will
What is false imprisonment?