Vocabulary 1
What is the definition of Assault?
What is a threat
Any care that results in physical harm or pain, or mental anguish.
What is abuse
What is the definition of Legal?
Authorized or based on law.
What is the definition of Invasion of Privacy
Revealing personal information about an individual without his or her consent.
what is the definition of Ethics?
Principles of right or good conduct.
Mental and moral qualities of an individual
What is character
Failure to give care that is normally expected, resulting in injury to another person.
What is Negligence
Permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind and aware of all factors involved.
What is Informed Consent
Factors of care that all patients can expect to receive.
What are Patient's Rights
Someone who has the power or authority to act as the representative of another.
What is a agent
A contract or agreement that creates obligations without verbally expressed terms.
What is an Implied Contract
Verbal or written permission
What is Consent
A false statement that causes ridicule or damage to a reputation.
What is Defamation
Spoken comment that causes a person ridicule or contempt or damages the person’s reputation.
What is Slander
False written statement that causes a person ridicule or contempt or causes damage to the person’s reputation.
What is Libel
A legal document stating a person’s desires on what measures should or should not be taken to prolong life when his or her condition is terminal.
What is a Living Will
To shorten, decrease in size, or draw together; an agreement between two or more persons.
What is a Contract
The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
What is culture
All personal information given to health personnel by a patient; must be kept confidential.
What is privileged Communication
Law that focuses on behavior known as crime; deals with the wrongs against a person, property, or society.
What is Criminal Law
A legal document designed to indicate a person’s wishes regarding care in case of a terminal illness or during the dying process.
What is an Advance Directive
Laws that focus on the legal relationships between people and the protection of a person’s rights.
What is Civil Law
Providing improper or unprofessional treatment or care that results in injury to another person.
What is Malpractice
Differences, Variety
What is diversity
How many men where part of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
What is 600 men
A wrongful or illegal act of civil law not involving a contract.
What is tort
A legal document that permits an individual (principal) to appoint another person to make any decisions regarding health care if the principal becomes unable to make decisions.
What is a Power of Attorney
A condition in which a person does not have legal capacity and is therefore unable to enter into a legal agreement (for example, as is the case with a minor).
What is Legal disability
Set of federal regulations adopted to protect the confidentiality of patient information and the ability to retain health insurance coverage.
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
An official order or commission to do something
What is a mandate
Euthanasia
What is medically assisted death
Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
What is morality
Investigation of a topic via the scientific method
What is research
Cells that can turn into any other cells
What is stem cells
Dead or weakened bacteria or viruses
What is vaccine
HeLA cells
What are the first cells cloned