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This defines legal issues. (Are the healthcare worker's actions legal or illegal?)
Law
This defines one's morals and values.
Ethics
Group of people giving recommendations that affect the care and treatment of patients.
What is an ethics committee?
A legal document in which a patient gives written instructions for when a patient is unable to make decisions.
What is an Advance Directive (AD)?
A legal document made by a patient, which states CPR or other advanced cardiac life support should not be performed.
What is a do not resuscitate (DNR) document?
What is a nurse, trained volunteer or social worker that ensures patients are not abused and that their legal rights are protected?
Ombudsman
Performing an act that a reasonable person would not have done or doing something that results in harming the patient.
Negligence
A person that is under 18 years old but is legally responsible for his/herself.
What is an emancipated minor?
List of guarantees that a patient should receive each time they are going into a hospital.
What is patient's Bill of Rights?
Concepts, ideas and beliefs that are important and meaningful to a person.
What are values?
Words or actions that make another person fear for their safety.
Assault
Term used if someone posts something online that is not true about another party.
Libel
Term used if someone verbally damages somebody's good name.
What is slander?
Laws that protect people from legal action after voluntarily giving emergency medical aid.
What are the Good Samaritan laws?
Exposing a patient physically or revealing personal information of a patient.
What is invasion of privacy?
After the provider presents the risk of the procedure, the patient has to sign this.
Informed consent
Name for the act that protects patient's information.
HIPAA
The skill and care that healthcare providers use to perform a procedure the same as somebody else with the same credentials.
What is the standard of care?
A person that is court-appointed to make decisions for a patient that is unable.
What is a guardian?
Tasks that an employee is legally allowed to perform base on training.
What is scope of practice?
The 2 types of invasion of privacy.
Physical and informational
Type of law that enforces private rights on individuals, organizations or combination of the two. Monetary compensation is awarded.
Civil (tort) law
A legal document that grants another person, usually a family member, to make decisions for the patient if they are unable to themselves.
Unlawful touching of another person without consent.
What is battery?
Name 2 out of 4 types of abuse.
What is physical, psychological, verbal and sexual?