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Legal Terms
NRN101- Legal terms impacting nursing
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| Professional Standards | Statements defined by professions that clearly delineate scope and clinical practice as a measurement of quality to which professionals subscribe (Standard Of Care) |
| Case Management | Methodology for organizing client care through an episode of illness so that specific clinical and financial outcomes are achieved within allocated time |
| Scope of Practice | Legal parameters that denote healthcare practice as defined in state statutes |
| Assult | A stated intent to touch a person in an offensive insulting or physically intimidating manner |
| Battery | The touching of another person without the person's consent |
| Civil Law | The law that deals with relations between individuals |
| Criminal Law | The law governing the acts of offenses against the welfare and safety of the public |
| Healthcare Delivery System | A mechanism for providing services that meet the health related needs of an individual |
| Competency | The ability of a professional individual to maintain act and possess qualities to function in a particular way |
| Malpractice | The behavior of a professional person... which results in harm to another person |
| Delegation | Ability to direct a task to another competent individual |
| Licensure | State regulation of an individuals ability to provide safe practice by meeting minimum based standards of competency |
| Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) | A prepaid health plan that provides primary healthcare for a preset fee and focuses on cost-effective treatment measures |
| Nurse Practice Act | Individual state law that clearly outlines the practice of nursing |
| Sub Acute Care | A type of health care in which short-term aggressive care emphasizes restorative measures before client reenters the community after an illness |
| Primary Prevention | Focus on health promotion and protection (vaccines, education) |
| Secondary Prevention | Early detection and prompt intervention (visiting PCP) |
| Tertiary Prevention | Restoration and rehabilitation |
| Negligence | Failure to provide care that a reasonable person would ordinarily use in a similar circumstance (Breach of Duty) |
| Liability | The obligation one has incurred or might incur through any act or failure to act |
| Managed Care | A system of providing and monitoring care in which access cost and quality are controlled before or during delivery process |
| Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) | A type of managed care model in which member choice is limited to providers within the system |
| Misdemeanor | An offense less serious than a felony and may be punished by a fine or local prison sentence for less than 1 year |
| Primary Health Care | A point of entry for a client into the healthcare system that includes assessment, diagnosis, treatment, education, preventitive services, and surveillance |
| Profession | A group that has its own scientific base of knowledge requires specialized education and maintains professional codes of conduct |
| Living Will | A document prepared by a competent adult that provides medical direction in the event the person becomes unable to make decisions personally |
| Autonomy | Ethical principle referring to an individuals RIGHT TO CHOOSE and the ability to act on that choice |
| Accountability | Concept that individuals are responsible for their actions and have an obligation to act |
| Accreditation | Voluntary process whereby an institution, program or service receives special status for meeting specific criteria |
| Single-Payer System | A reimbursement model in which the governement is the only entity to reimburse health care costs |
| Co-Morbidity | Existence of simultaneous disease process within an individual |
| Tort | A civil wrong committed on a person or property... by which damages acrue to the person |
| Statutory Law | Laws that are enacted by legislative bodies Nurse Practice Acts are created and governed under statutory laws. |
| Libel | Published defamation of character (falsely) |
| Slander | Spoken defamation of character (falsely) |
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