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The knowledge of right and wrong. Guides to moral behavior.
Ethics
Unlawful restraining or restricting a person’s environment
False Imprisonment
Tasks that nurse aides are trained to do and legally able to do. The NCBON lists the tasks that NA Is can legally do.
Nurse Aide Range of Function
Unlawful restraining or restricting a person’s environment
False Imprisonment
Assault is act of threatening to touch, or attempting to touch a person, without proper consent. Battery is touching a person without consent.
Assault and Battery
False statement made to a third person that causes a person shame or ridicule, or ruins their reputation; written is called libel; verbal is called slander
Defamation
The act of authorizing a person to act as a representative of another. The RN delegates to the nurse aide personal care tasks. The aide is acting on behalf of the nurse.
Delegation
Failure to provide goods and services necessary to avoid physical harm, mental anguish, or mental illness
Negligence
Abuse is willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation or punishment with resulting physical harm, pain, or mental anguish. Abuse can be emotional or psychological, physical, fiscal, sexual, or misappropriation of property. Self-neglect is a form of abuse.
Types of Abuse
An intentional deception or misrepresentation made by a person with knowledge that deception could result in some unauthorized benefit to self or some other person
Fraud
Activities of daily living, hygiene needs, positioning and providing exercise, nutrition, elimination of waste.
Priorities for Resident Care
Giving care for which you are not allowed legally to perform
Malpractice
Adults who are at risk for abuse or mistreatment because they are not able to protect selves from harm due to mental, emotional, development disability; or brain damage; or changes from aging.
Vulnerable Adults
The NCBON refers to what a RN can legally do as “practice.”
RN Practice
Failure to prevent the intrusion of one person onto another. Violation of right to control personal information or the right to be left alone.
Invasion of Privacy
Offenses against the public and society. May go to jail for breaking criminal law.
Criminal Law
(a) Any person having reasonable cause to believe that a disabled adult is in need of protective services shall report such information to the director.
(b) The report may be made orally or in writing. The report shall include the name and address of the disabled adult; the name and address of the disabled adult's caretaker; the age of the disabled adult; the nature and extent of the disabled adult's injury or condition resulting from abuse or neglect; and other pertinent information.
(c) Anyone who makes a report pursuant to this statute, who testifies in any judicial proceeding arising from the report, or who participates in a required evaluation shall be immune from any civil or criminal liability on account of such report or testimony or participation, unless such person acted in bad faith or with a malicious.
NC GS 108A-102
North Carolina General Statute that states that Identification badges must be worn.
NC GS 90-640
Rules made by government to help protect public. Laws tell people what they can and cannot do.
Laws