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Standards concerned with whether a healthcare worker 's actions are legal or illegal
Medical Law
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Liable
A legal document made by a patient, which states that CPR or other advanced cardiac life support should not be performed if a patient stop breathing or the patient's heart stop.
Do Not Resuscitate
Laws that protect people from legal action after voluntarily giving emergence medical aid while using reasonable care.
Good Samaritan Laws
A form, given to a patient by a doctor, explaining the benefit and risks of a procedure; the patient accepts the risk by signing the form.
Informed Consent
Standards concerned with whether a healthcare worker's actions are right or wrong
Medical Ethics
Damaging someone's good name or reputation in writing
Libel
The practice of allowing only certain individuals the right to access information; ensures that others do not obtain the personal information of he patients.
Confidentiality
A cost-effective alternative to litigation
Arbitration
A court-appointed person who may make decisions for a patient who is mentally or physically incapable of making such decisions.
Guardian
The concepts, ideas, and beliefs that are important and meaningful to a person
Values
Any words or actions that lead an individual to fear that he or she will be harmed by another
Assault
Damaging someone's good name or reputation
Defamation
The process of taking legal action
Litigation
The amount of time during which any legal action may be taken; after such time a lawsuit may not be filed.
Statute of Limitations
Directives that pertain to disputes between individuals, organizations, or a combination of the two in which monetary compensation is awarded; also known as tort law.
Civil law
Any misconduct or lack of skill that results in patient injury; also known as professional liability.
Malpractice
Intrusion on another's personal life; applies to personal information as well as a person's body.
Invasion of Privacy
A legal obligation for healthcare personnel to take reasonable care to avoid causing harm to a patient
Duty of care
Unwanted sexual advances and other forms of offensive sexual behavior; both men and women can be guilty
Sexual harassment
The act of unfairly treating a person or a group of people differently from others
Discrimination
Touching a person without their consent
Battery
A person under the 18 years of age who has legally established that he or she does not live with parents.
Emancipated minor
Performing an act that as reasonable person would not have done, or not doing something that a reasonable person would have done in the same or similar circumstances that resulted in harm to a patient.
Negligence
An act approved by the US Congress in 1996 and fully enforced in 2006; includes a privacy provision for patient health records
HIPAA ( Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)