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Legal and Ethical
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Criminal Law | focuses on behavior known as crime. |
| civil law | focuses on legal relationships |
| tort | wrongful act that does not involve a contract |
| malpractice | "bad practice" failure to use the degree of skill and learning commonly expected for that individual's profession |
| negligence | failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a particular position |
| assault | threat or attempt to injure |
| battery | unlawful touching of another person without consent |
| informed consent | permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind after the procedure and risk have been explained |
| invasion of privacy | unnecessarily exposing an individual or revealing personal information about an individual without a person's permission |
| false imprisonment | restraining an individual or restriction an individual's freedom |
| abuse | results in physical harm, pain, or mental anguish |
| Four types of abuse | physical, verbal, psychological, and sexual |
| defamation | false statements either cause a person to be ridiculed or damage the person's reputation |
| slander | spoken defamation |
| libel | written defamation |
| contract | agreement between two or more parties |
| implied contract | obligations that are understood without verbally expressed terms. |
| expressed contract | stated in distinct and clear language, either orally or written |
| agent | a person works under the direction or control of another person. |
| privileged communications | comprised of all information given to health care personnel by a patient |
| HIPPA | protects patient record confidentiality. |
| Ethics | a set of principles relating to what is morally right or wrong. |
| patient's rights | factors of care that patients can expect to receive. |
| Patient's Bill of Rights | bills that recognize what the patient has the right to do. |
| Resident's Bill of Rights | expresses those living in long term facility rights. |
| advance directives | also know as legal directives |
| living wills | allows individuals to state what medical treatment they want or do not want in the event that they become incapacitated. |
| durable power of attorney (POA) | a document that permits an individual to appoint another person to make any decision regarding health care. |
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