Types of laws
These laws protect fundamental rights and freedoms of US citizens.
What are constitutional laws?
An act in which bodily harm is threatened or attempted.
What is assault?
What is negligence?
Nurses are held responsible for providing safe and appropriate care.
What is professional liability?
Beneficence and nonmaleficence.
What are doing good and doing no harm?
These laws identify local, state or federal rules necessary for the public welfare.
What are statutory laws?
Unauthorized physical touching.
What is battery?
Professional negligence.
What is malpractice?
Good Samaritan Laws.
What are laws that protect passersby that respond in an emergency?
A competent person's right to make their own choices.
What is autonomy?
These laws develop regulations by which to carry out the mission of a public agency.
What are administrative laws?
Interference in a person's ability to move about freely.
What is false imprisonment?
An obligation exists to provide care.
What is a duty?
Usually about 7 years but it can vary.
What is a statute of limitations?
The duty to be honest and avoid deceiving or misleading a patient.
What is veracity?
These laws determine the nature of acts that endanger all of society.
What are criminal laws?
Failure to leave people and their property alone.
What is invasion of privacy?
The caregiver's action or inaction caused the plaintif harm.
What is causation?
Good documentation of education provided and understanding of the patient can shift the responsibility to the patient.
What is assumption of risk?
Fidelity
What is being faithful to work related commitments and obligations?
These laws determine the circumstances and manner in which a person may be compensated for being the victim of another person's action or omission of an action.
What are civil laws?
Untrue information harms a person's reputation.
What is defamation?
A nurse fails to use 3 identifiers for her patient. The nurse then gives a medication to the wrong patient.
What is malpractice?
A privileged document that lays out specific events, outside of the norm, involving a patient.
What is an incident report?
Teleologic and Deontologic theories.
What are ethics theories - teleologic is based on the final outcome and deontologic is based on what's morally right?