Key principle in business law, which says that an employer is responsible for the actions of his or her employees in the course of employment.
What is RESPONDEAT SUPERIOR?
100
The binding force in any contract that gives it legal status.
What is CONSIDERATION?
100
Standards of human contact, sometimes called morals.
What is ETHICS?
100
Refers to the responsibility the healthcare professional has to others, specifically patients, so that a feeling of confidence exists between patient and provider.
What is ACCOUNTABILITY?
100
Improper or harmful procedures or methods of doing business that are contradictory to accepted business practices.
What is ABUSE?
200
Failure to exercise a reasonable degree of care.
What is NEGLIGENCE?
200
Parties of the contractual agreement must be capable of entering into a contract in the eyes of the law.
What is COMPETENCY?
200
Code of conduct for the healthcare profession.
What is MEDICAL ETHICS?
200
Denotes a zone of inaccessibility of mind or body, the right to be left alone and to maintain individual autonomy, solitude, intimacy, and control over information about oneself.
What is PRIVACY?
200
When confidential information is disclosed to a third party without patient consent or court order.
What is BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY?
300
Members of a medical team including nurses, medical assistants, health insurance professionals and technicians.
What is ANCILLARY?
300
Youth 16-18 who do not live with parents, are not receiving financial support from them are living beyond parents custody and control and are not in foster care.
What are EMANCIPATED MINORS?
300
Following the rules and conventions governing correct or polite behavior in society.
What is ETIQUETTE?
300
Concerns the communication of private adn personal information from one person to another.
What is CONFIDENTIALITY?
300
When a healthcare professional is rude or behaves is an unethical manner to a patient.
What is breach of MEDICAL ETIQUETTE?
400
A proposition to create a contract between two parties.
What is OFFER?
400
A relationship between a healthcare provider and a patient.
What is an IMPLIED CONTRACT?
400
Clinical, scientific, administrative, and legal document of facts containing statements relating to a patient.
What is MEDICAL HEALTH RECORD?
400
A legal document that requires an individual to appear in ocurt with a piece of evidence that can be used or inspected by the court.
What is SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM?
400
What an insurance company may be referred to as.
What is THIRD PARTY?
500
When a company agrees to accept the individual for benefits coverage or when the policy is issued.
What is ACCEPTANCE?
500
Promises that are neither spoken nor written but are implicated by the individuals actions and performance.
What are IMPLIED PROMISES?
500
People with preexisting medical conditions cannot be denied health insurance coverage when moving from one employer's group health insurance to another.
What is PORTABILITY?
500
When a person is named as agent to handle the individual's affairs if the patient becomes incapacitated.