Ethical & Legal Issues
Determines what is "Right" or "Good" within a society
What is Legislation?
Decisions are based on what is best for the individual making the decisions
Taking no action is considered what?
What is an action taken?
Refers to one's duty to benefit or promote the good of others.
Beneficence
Confidentiality & Right to Privacy
What is HIPPA- Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
A branch of philosophy that deals with systemic approaches to distinguish right from wrong.
What is Ethics?
Focuses on the mortality of actions- judged as right or wrong based on ethical principles.
What is Kantianism?
Situations that require a choice between two equally unfavorable alternatives
What is an Ethical Dilemma?
What is Advocacy?
Exceptions to HIPPA?
Whats is suspected child or elder abuse and duty to warn
Term applied to the principles when they refer to concepts within the scope of medicine, nursing & allied health.
What is Bioethics?
Do unto others as you would have done unto you.
What is Christian Ethics?
Written defamation of character
What is Libel?
Loyalty & faithfulness to the client & one's duty
What is Fidelity?
Court ordered or doctor committed, emergency commitments , a mentally ill person in need of treatment
What are examples of Involuntary Commitments?
A valid, legally recognized claim or entitlement, encompassing freedom from government interference or discriminatory treatment & an entitlement to a benefit or service.
What is a "Right"
Promotes action based on the end result that produces the most good for the most people
What is Utilitarianism?
Types of Lawsuits that occur in MH
What is
1. Breach of Confidentiality
2. Defamation of Character
3. Assualt & Battery
4. False Imprisonment
5. Malpratice/Negligence
Based on the concept reflecting a duty to treat everyone equal & fair
What is justice?
Knowledge, Competency and Free Will
What are elements of Informed Consent?
Defines the legal parameters of professional & practical nursing.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
Do good, avoid evil, human knowledge of the difference in decision-making
What is Natural Law Theories?
Failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonably prudent person would have exercised in a similar situation. Any conduct that falls below the legal standard established to protect others against unreasonable risk of harm,
What is Negligence?
Abstaining from negative acts towards other- avoid harm
What is Nonmaleficence?
4 Elements of a Nursing Malpractice:
What is
1. a duty to the patient existed; Breach of Duty
2. a breach of duty occurred
3. the client was injured &
4. the injury was directly caused by the breach of duty