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ethics & legal conct
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accountability | taking responsibility for your actions,being answerable to someone for something you have done. |
| Attitude | a manner of thought or feeling expressed in person's behavior. |
| Autonomy | personal liberty, right of self-government. |
| Behavior | what people do and say |
| Code of Ethics | a set of standards for behavior based on values. |
| Confidentiality | protecting the privacy of any confidential information,spoken or written. |
| Damages | monetary compensation awarded by a court for an injury caused by the act of another. |
| Defendant | an individual, company, or institution sued or accused in a court of law. |
| Deposition | declaration, pretrial statement of a witnessunder oath |
| Discrimination | seeing a difference, prejudicial treatment of a person. |
| Empathy | Capacity to share and understand the feeling or ideas of another. |
| Ethics | behavior that is based on values,how we make judgments in regard to right and wrong. |
| evidence | all the means by which any alleged matter of fact,the truth of which is submitted to investigation at trial, is established or disproved |
| expert witness | a witness who has special knowledge of the subject about which he or she is to testify. |
| Fidelity | doing what one promises. |
| Hostile environment | a sexual oriented atmosphere or pattern behavior that is determined to be sexual harassment. |
| Implied contract | a non explicit agreement that impacts some aspects of the employment relationship. |
| Informed consent | a doctrine that states that before a patient is asked to consent to a risky or invasive diagnostic or treatment. |
| Liability | being responsible either for damages resulting from an injurious act or from discharging an obligation or debt |
| Medical Malpractice | professional negligence of a health care professional, failure to meet a professional standard of care. |
| Negligence | failure to satisfactory perform one's legal duty, such another person incurs some injury |
| Philosophy | principles |
| plaintiff | the person who brings a lawsuit against another |
| principles | basic truths, moral code of conduct |
| Quid Pro Quo | involves making conditions of employment(like promotions) contingent on the victim providing sexual favors |
| respondeat superior | legal doctrine that imposes liability upon the employer. |
| respect | holding a person in esteem or honor, having appreciation and regard for another. |
| Retaliation | payback |
| Scope of Practice | a legal description of what a specific health professional may and may not do |
| Sexual Harassment | unwanted,unwelcome behavior ,sexual in nature |
| Standard of care | the legal duty one owes to another according to the circumstances of particular case |
| Statute | a law passed by the legislature and signed by the governor at the state level and the president at the federal level. |
| Statute of Limitations | the time within which a plaintiff must bring a civil suit. |
| Tact | use of discretion regarding feeling of others |
| Tort | a wrong against another person or his property that is not a crime but for which the law provides a remedy |
| Values | Personal beliefs about the worth of a principle standard,or quality. |
| Values Clarification | Examination of our value system. |
| Work Ethics | moral values regarding word |
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