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Ch 3 Fund Vocab
Words to know from Chapter 3 of Fundamentals
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Administrative laws | legal provisions through which federal, state, and local agencies maintain self-regulation. |
| Advance directive | written statement identifying a competent person's wishes concerning terminal care. |
| Allocation of scarce resources | process of deciding how to distribute limited life-saving equipment or procedures. |
| Anecdotal record | personal, handwritten account of an incident. |
| Assault | act in which there is a threat or attempt to do bodily harm. |
| Assumption of risk | when a client is forewarned of a potential safety hazard and chooses to ignore the warning. |
| Autonomy | a competent person's right to make his or her own choices without intimidation or influence. |
| Battery | unauthorized physical contact. |
| Beneficence | "doing good" or acting for another's benefit. |
| Board of Nursing | regulatory agency that manages the provisions of a state's nurse practice act. |
| Civil laws | statutes that protect the personal freedoms and rights of individuals. |
| Code of ethics | statements describing ideal behavior. |
| Code status | manner in which nurses or health care personnel must manage the care of a client during cardiac or respiratory arrest. |
| Common law | decisions based on prior cases of a similar nature. |
| Confidentiality | safeguarding a client's health information from public disclosure. |
| Criminal laws | penal codes that protect citizens from persons who are a threat to the public good. |
| Defamation | act in which untrue information harms a person's reputation. |
| Defendant | person charged with violating the law. |
| Deontology | ethical study based on duty or moral obligations. |
| Documentation | record keeping |
| Durable power of attorney for health care | proxy for making medical decisions when a client becomes incompetent or incapacitated and cannot make decisions independently. |
| Duty | obligation to provide care for a person claiming injury or harm. |
| Ethical dilemma | choice between two undesirable alternatives. |
| Ethics | moral or philosophical principles. |
| False imprisonment | interference with a person's freedom to move about at will without legal authority to do so. |
| Felony | serious criminal offense. |
| Fidelity | being faithful to work-related commitments and obligations. |
| Good Samaritan laws | legal immunity for passersby who provide emergency first aid to accident victims. |
| Gross negligence | total disregard for another's safety. |
| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) | legislation that sets national standards for the security of health information, ensures that an individual's electronic, paper, or oral health information is protected. |
| Incident report | written account of an unusual event involving a client, employee, or visitor that has the potential for being injurious. |
| Intentional tort | lawsuit in which a plaintiff charges that a defendant committed a deliberately aggressive act. |
| Invasion of privacy | failure to leave people and their property alone. |
| Justice | principle for treating impartially without discrimination according to age, gender, race, religion, socioeconomic status, weight, martial status, or sexual orientation. |
| Laws | rules of conduct established and enforced by the government of a society. |
| Liability insurance | contract between a person or corporation and a company who is willing to provide legal services and financial assistance when a policyholder is involved in a malpractice lawsuit |
| Libel | damaging statement that is written and read by others. |
| Living will | a person's advance, written directive identifying medical interventions to use or not to use in cases of terminal condition, irreversible coma, or vegetative state with no hope of recovery. |
| Malpractice | professional negligence. |
| Misdemeanor | minor criminal offense. |
| National Practitioner Data Bank | serves as a tracking system designed to protect the public from unfit health care practitioner. |
| Negligence | harm that results because a person did not act reasonably. |
| Nonmaleficence | "doing no harm" or avoiding an action that deliberately harms a person. |
| Nurse licensure compacts | agreements between states in which a nurse licensed in one state can practice in another without obtaining an additional license. |
| Nurse practice act | statue that legally defines the unique role of the nurse and differentiates it from that of other health care practitioners, such as physicians. |
| Nursing Home Reform Act | federal legislation that sets standards of care and establishes certain rights for older adults. |
| Plaintiff | person who claims injury. |
| Reciprocity | licensure based on evidence of having met licensing criteria in another state. |
| Restraints | devices or chemicals that restrict movement or access to one's body. |
| Risk management | process of identifying and reducing the cots of anticipated losses. |
| Slander | character attack uttered in the presence of others. |
| Statute of limitations | designated amt of time within which a person can file a lawsuit. |
| Statutory laws | laws enacted by federal, state or local legislatures. |
| Telehealth services | technology that facilitates the transmission of health assessment and monitoring data with audio, video, and internet-based devices. |
| Telenursing | health triage, or information through electronic or telephonic access. |
| Teleology | ethical theory based on final outcomes. |
| Tort | litigation in which one person asserts that an injury, which may be physical, emotional, or financial, occured as a consequence of another's actions or failure to act. |
| Truth telling | ethical principle proposing that all clients have the right to receive complete and accurate information. |
| Unintentional tort | situation that results in an injury, although the person responsible did not mean to cause harm. |
| Values | ideals that a person believes are important. |
| Veracity | the duty to be honest and avoid deceiving or misleading a client. |
| Whistle-blowing | reporting incompetent or unethical practices. |
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Jessica Venyke
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