Created by various legislative bodies, such as legislatures or Congress. This law also governs nursing.
What is Statutory Law
100
This Act was passed as an effort to preserve confidentiality, and to protect the privacy of health information, and improve the portability and continuation of health-care care coverage.
What is HIPPA
100
Was created to allow people the opportunity to make decisions about treatment in advance of a time when they might become unable to participate in the decision-making process.
What is Advance Directive
100
The ability to act on the basis of one's knowledge and experience.
What is Autonomy
100
Considered the founder of modern nursing. Used Evidence-based practice to promote nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale
200
Protects licensed health-care providers from civil liability as long as they behave in the same manner as an ordinary, reasonable, and prudent professional in the same or similar circumstances.
What is Good Samaritan Laws
200
Making a false verbal and false written statement
What is Slander and Libel
200
A specific directive to health-care providers not to initiate CPR measures.
What is Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)
200
Control of nursing practice within an organization
What is Decision making
200
Founded the Henry Street Settlement. Provided a role model for contemporary community health nursing.
Who is Lillian Wald
300
The traditional unwritten law, based on customs and usage. One decision creates the precedence for another.
What is Common Law
300
Confining an individual against his or her will be either physical or verbal means.
What is False Imprisonment
300
A legally executed document that states an individual's wishes regarding life-prolonging medical treatment in the event that he or she is no longer competent to do so
What is Living Will
300
Appreciation, both tangible and intangible (raises, bonuses)
What is Reward and recognition
300
A political activist, best known for courageously fighting to make birth control information available to everyone who needed or wanted it. Possibly the first nurse lobbyist
Who is Margaret Sanger
400
Usually involves the violation of a person's rights by another person. Tort, Negligence, Malpractice, Quasi-Intentional Tort particularly affect nurses.
What is Civil Law
400
Threatening to do harm and touching another person without his or her consent
What is Assault and Battery
400
Make the client's wishes known to medical and nursing personnel.
What is Health-care surrogate
400
Consistent, equitable treatment of all staff
What is Fairness
400
The first African-American registered nurse in the U.S. and also co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses ( NACGN)
Who is Mary Elizabeth Mahoney
500
Created by administrative agencies that develop specific rules and regulations that direct the implementation of statutory law. Gives state nursing boards the authority to issue and revoke licenses.
What is Administrative Law
500
A legal document in all 50 states. It requires physicians to divulge the benefits, risks, and alternatives to a suggested treatment, nontreatment, or procedure.