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Legal and Ethical
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abuse | any care that results in physical harm, pain, or mental anguish. |
| Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Its core goals are to expand health insurance access, protect consumers from unfair insurance practices, and lower overall health care costs |
| Tort | wrongful act that does not involve a contract |
| Malpractice | the failure of a professional to use the degree of skill and learning commonly expected in that individual’s profession, resulting in injury, loss, or damage to the person receiving care |
| Negligence | failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a particular position, resulting in injury to another person |
| 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 all risks involved have been explained in terms the person can understand |
| Invasion of privacy | unnecessarily exposing an individual or revealing personal information about an individual without that person’s consent |
| False Imprisonment | restraining an individual or restricting an individual’s freedom |
| Defamation | when false statements either cause a person to be ridiculed or damage the person’s reputation |
| Slander | Spoken information |
| Libel | Written Information |
| Implied Contracts | obligations that are understood without verbally expressed terms |
| Expressed Contracts | stated in distinct and clear language, either orally or in writing |
| Legal Disability | does not have the legal capacity to form a contract |
| Privileged Communications | all information given to health care personnel by a patient; by law, this information must be kept confi dential |
| Agent | the person working under the employer |
| Health Care Records | information about the care provided to the patient |
| HIPAA | These standards provide federal protection for privacy of health information in all states. |
| Ethics | A set of principles relating to what is morally right or wrong |
| Confidentiality | information about the patient must remain private and can be shared only with other members of the patient’s health care team |
| Patients' Rights | the factors of care that patients can expect to receive |
| Resident’s Bill of Rights | Rights for people in long term care facilities |
| Advance Directives | legal documents that allow individuals to state what medical treatment they want or do not want in the event that they become incapacitated |
| Living Wills | documents that allow individuals to state what measures should or should not be taken to prolong life when their conditions are terminal |
| Durable Power of Attorney | document that permits an individual to appoint another person to make any decisions regarding health care if the principal should become unable to make decisions |
| Patient Self-Determination Act | ensures that patients are informed of their rights and have the opportunity to determine the care they will receive |
| Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities | a set of guarantees and expectations designed to protect healthcare consumers, strengthen trust in the medical system, and outline the duties patients have regarding their own care |
| Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act | gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue receiving health benefits, for a limited period of time. |
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