Legal Terms
Deals with wrongs against a person, property, or society
What is Criminal Law
Threat or attempt to injure.
What is assault?
An agreement between two or more parties.
What is a contract?
Established blood-borne pathogen standard that must be followed by all healthcare workers.
What is OSHA?
What is R.A.C.E and when is it used?
RACE is an acronym that means Rescue Alarm Confine and Extinguish and it is used in case a fire breaks out and there is need to rescue someone
Focuses on the legal relationships between people and the protection of a person's rights
What is Civil Law
Unlawful touching of another person without consent.
What is battery?
Three parts to a contract.
What are offer, acceptance, and consideration?
Procedures, processes, and actions that healthcare providers are legally permitted to perform within the terms of their professional license or registration.
What is scope of practice?
What is P.A.S.S and when is it used?
PASS is an acronym that means Pull Aim Squeeze and Sweep and it is used to Extinguish fires in case one breaks out.
Permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind and who has been instructed in terms the person can understand about all risks involved.
What is informed consent?
Failure to give care normally expected of a person in a particular position resulting in injury.
What is negligence?
Contract that is understood without verbally expressed terms.
What is implied contracts?
Set of principles relating to what is morally right or wrong.
What is ethics?
What is R.I.C.E?
RICE is Raise Ice Compress and Elevation and this is in case of an injury to promote healing and flexibility.
All information given to healthcare personnel by a patient.
What is privileged communication?
Known as "bad practice" and is failure for a professional to use degree of skill commonly expected resulting in injury, loss, or damage to the person receiving care.
What is Malpractice?
A person that works under the direction or control of another person, employer, or principal.
What is the agent?
Factors of care that a patient can expect to receive.
What is patient rights?
What is A.A.R.O.M?
AAROM is Active Assistive Range Of Motion
Established in 1996 to protect privileged communications and maintain confidentiality of healthcare records.
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
Restraining or restricting and individual's freedom without authorization.
What is false imprisonment?
A person that does not have the legal capacity to form a contract.
What is legal disability?
Act that guarantees certain rights pertaining to health insurance coverage.
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
CPAP and what system is it helping?
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure and it helps the Respiratory system.