Question | Answer |
What are the 2 types of civil law? | Torts & Contracts |
What are the 3 parts of a contract? | offer, acceptance, & consideration |
What is information that is shared within a protected relationship called? | Privileged Communication |
Who are 3 groups of people considered legally disabled? | under age 18, unconscious/semi-conscious, & mentally incompetent |
What term is used to describe when a person is harmed due to another person's actions? | Tort |
What are the 2 types of contracts? | implied and expressed |
What is a threat or attempt to injure? | assault |
A person who is under the influence of drugs does not have the legal capacity to form a contract because he/she has a what? | legal disability |
What term describes the fact that information about a patient must remain private? | confidentiality |
What does the acronym PSDA stand for? | Patient Self-Determination Act |
What should you do if you are a health care worked and you make a mistake? | report it to your supervisor |
When can a health care worker accept a tip or a bribe? | Never |
What term describes a standard code of conduct for health professionals? | Ethics or Code of Ethics |
What is permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind after the procedure has been explained in terms the person can understand? | Informed Consent |
What kind of contract exists when a nurse is holding a thermometer and says "put this under your tongue" and the patient puts the termometr under his or her tongue? | Implied contract |
What do the initials HIPAA stand for? | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
What patient's rights document applies to persons in long-term care facilities (nursing home) | Resident's Bill of Rights |
A document that a person signs to indicate he/she does not want to be resuscitated when he/she stops breathing is called what? | Living will |
Keeping someone in the hospital against their will could be an example of what? | False Imprisonment |
Jane's father signs a document saying that Jane will make decisions for him once he is unable to make decisions is call what? | Healthcare Power of Attorney (Durable Power of Attorney) |
What term describes when someone says something about another person that is not true and damages the victim's reputation | Slander |
What term describes when failure to give care that is normally expected? | Negligence |
What term describes when false statements cause a person to be ridiculed? | Defamation |
What is a wrongful act that does not involve a contract and causes harm to another called? | Tort |