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Stack #4645603
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abuse | Any care that results in physical harm or pain, or mental anguish |
| Advance Directives | Legal document designed to indicate a person’s wishes regarding care in case of a terminal illness or during the dying process |
| Agent | Someone who has the power or authority to act as the representative of another |
| Assault and Battery | Assault includes a threat or attempot to injure, and battery includes the unlawful touching of another person withut consent |
| Civil Law | Laws that focus on the legal relationships between people and the protection of a person’s rights |
| Confidentiality | Information about the patient must remain private and can be shared only with other members of the patient’s health care team |
| Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities | A list of patients’ rights, implemented by the Department of Health and Human Services, that must be recognized and honored by health care providers |
| Contract | To shorten, decrease in size, or draw together; an agreement between two or more persons |
| Criminal Law | Law that focuses on behavior known as crime; deals with the wrongs against a person, property, or society |
| Defamation | Slander or libel; a false statement that causes ridicule or damage to a reputation |
| Designation of Health Care Surrogate | A legal document (part of advance directives) that appoints a trusted person to make medical decisions on your behalf if you become incapacitated |
| Durable Power of Attorney (POA) | A legal document that permits an individual (principal) to appoint another person to make any decisions regarding health care if the principal becomes unable to make decisions |
| Ethics | Principles of right or good conduct |
| Expressed Conents | Consents stated in distinct and clear language, either orally or in writing |
| False Imprisonment | Restraining an individual or restricting an individual’s freedom |
| Health Care Records | Records that contain information about the care provided to the patient; considered privileged communications |
| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) | Set of federal regulations adopted to protect confidentiality of patient information and the ability to retain health inserance coverage |
| Implied Consents | Obligations that are understood without verbally expressed terms |
| Informed Consent | Permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind and aware of all factors involved |
| Invasion of Privacy | Revealin personal information about and individual without his or her consent |
| Legal | Authorized or based on law |
| Legal Disability | A condition in which a person does not have legal capacity and is therefore unable to enter into legal agreement (for example, as is the case with a minor) |
| Libel | Fals written statemnent that causes a person ridicule or contempt or causes damage to the person’s reputation |
| Living wills | Legal documents stating a person’s desirese on what measures should or should not be taken to prolong life when his or her condition is terminal |
| Malpractice | Providing improper or unprofessionnal treatment or care that results in injury to another person |
| Negligence | Failure to give care that is normally expected, resutling in injury to another person |
| Omnibus Budget Reconcilitation act (OBRA) of 1987 | Federal law that regulates the education and testing of nursing assistants |
| Patient Protection and Afforadble Care Act (PPACA) | A federal statute signed into law and designed to expand access to affordable health coverage in the United States |
| Patient Self | Determination Act (PSDA) |
| Patients’ Rights | Factors of care that all patients can expect to receive |
| Privileged Communications | All personal information given to health personnel by a patient; must be kept confidential |
| Resident’s Bill of Rights | Rights guarenteed to residents of long |
| Scope of Practice | The procedures, processes and actions that health care providers are legally permitted to perform in keeping with the terms of their professional license |
| Slander | Act of making false, spoken statements that damage a person's reputation, character, or livelihood |
| Tort | A wrongful or illegal act of civil law not involving a contract |
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