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PHS Unit 4 Review
Unit 4: Legal and Ethical Responsibilities Date: November 6, 2025
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Civil Law | focuses on the legal relationship between people and the protection of a person's rights; involves torts and contracts |
| Civil Law example | breach of contract |
| Criminal Law | focuses on behavior known as crime; deals with wrongs against a person, property, or society |
| Criminal Law example | practicing in a health profession without having the required license, illegal possession of drugs, misuse of narcotics, theft, sexual assault, and murder |
| Negligence | failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a particular position, resulting in injury to another person |
| Malpractice | "bad practice" and commonly called "professional negligence"; the failure of a professional to use the degree of skill and learning commonly expected in that individual's profession, resulting in injury, loss, damage to the person receiving the care |
| Torts | a wrongful act that does not involve contracts; called a civil wrong instead of a crime and can occur when a person is harmed or injured because a health care provider does not meet the established or expected standards of care |
| Ethics | a set of principles defining what is right and wrong; provides a standard of conduct or code of behavior |
| Assault | a threat or attempt to injure a person |
| Battery | the unlawful touching of another person without consent |
| Informed consent | permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind and who has been instructed, in terms the person can understand, about all the risks involved |
| Legal | relating to the law, following the law, permitted by the law |
| Legal disability | a person who does not have the legal disability to form a legal contract |
| People with legal disability | minors (people under age 18), mentally incompetent persons, under the influence or drugs that alter mental state, unconscious or semiconscious |
| Legal mandate | a translator is required when a contract is being explained to a non-english speaking patient |
| Physical invasion of privacy | unnecessarily exposing an individual |
| Informational invasion of privacy | restraining an individual or restricting an individual's freedom |
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