Question | Answer |
Accountability | taking responsibility for your actions,being answerable to someone for something you have done. |
Attitude | a manner of thought or feeling expressed in person's behavior. |
Autonomy | personal liberty, right of self-government. |
Behavior | what people do and say |
Code of Ethics | a set of standards for behavior based on values. |
Confidentiality | protecting the privacy of any confidential information,spoken or written. |
Damages | monetary compensation awarded by a court for an injury caused by the act of another. |
Defendant | an individual, company, or institution sued or accused in a court of law. |
Deposition | declaration, pretrial statement of a witnessunder oath |
Discrimination | seeing a difference, prejudicial treatment of a person. |
Empathy | Capacity to share and understand the feeling or ideas of another. |
Ethics | behavior that is based on values,how we make judgments in regard to right and wrong. |
evidence | all the means by which any alleged matter of fact,the truth of which is submitted to investigation at trial, is established or disproved |
expert witness | a witness who has special knowledge of the subject about which he or she is to testify. |
Fidelity | doing what one promises. |
Hostile environment | a sexual oriented atmosphere or pattern behavior that is determined to be sexual harassment. |
Implied contract | a non explicit agreement that impacts some aspects of the employment relationship. |
Informed consent | a doctrine that states that before a patient is asked to consent to a risky or invasive diagnostic or treatment. |
Liability | being responsible either for damages resulting from an injurious act or from discharging an obligation or debt |
Medical Malpractice | professional negligence of a health care professional, failure to meet a professional standard of care. |
Negligence | failure to satisfactory perform one's legal duty, such another person incurs some injury |
Philosophy | principles |
plaintiff | the person who brings a lawsuit against another |
principles | basic truths, moral code of conduct |
Quid Pro Quo | involves making conditions of employment(like promotions) contingent on the victim providing sexual favors |
respondeat superior | legal doctrine that imposes liability upon the employer. |
respect | holding a person in esteem or honor, having appreciation and regard for another. |
Retaliation | payback |
Scope of Practice | a legal description of what a specific health professional may and may not do |
Sexual Harassment | unwanted,unwelcome behavior ,sexual in nature |
Standard of care | the legal duty one owes to another according to the circumstances of particular case |
Statute | a law passed by the legislature and signed by the governor at the state level and the president at the federal level. |
Statute of Limitations | the time within which a plaintiff must bring a civil suit. |
Tact | use of discretion regarding feeling of others |
Tort | a wrong against another person or his property that is not a crime but for which the law provides a remedy |
Values | Personal beliefs about the worth of a principle standard,or quality. |
Values Clarification | Examination of our value system. |
Work Ethics | moral values regarding word |