SRGT 1505 Legal/Ethical
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| Aeger Primo | It is Latin for "Patient First" a motto for Surgical Technologists
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| Abandonment | When a health care professional has already received a pt., and then suddenly walks away while the pt. is still in need, without securing the services of an adequate substitute.
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| Advance directives | Legal documents that allow you to convey your decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time.
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| Assault | An unlawful threat to harm someone physically.
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| Battery | Carrying out bodily harm, from touching someone without consent to, actually causing injury.
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| Causation | Action directly or indirectly causing injury.
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| Common law system | A legal system that gives great precedential weight to common law, on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different occasions.
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| Corporate liability | Determines the extent to which a corporation as a legal person can be liable for the acts and omissions of the natural persons it employs.
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| Damages | Compensation awarded to make restitution for an injury or a wrong.
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| Defendant | Person named as the object of a lawsuit.
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| Deposition | Statement given under oath that is a documentation of fact used in a court of law.
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| Jury | A group of people who are selected and sworn to inquire into matters of fact and to reach a verdict on the basis of the evidence presented to them.
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| Liability | Legally responsible for personal actions.
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| Malpractice | Substandard delivery of care that results in harm.
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| Negligence | Careless performance of duty --- a form of malpractice.
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| Perjury | A crime that occurs when an individual willfully makes a false statement during a judicial proceeding, after he or she has taken an oath to speak the truth.
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| Personal liability | A financial obligation for which an individual is responsible and which may be satisfied out of his or her assets.
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| Plaintiff | Person who initiates a lawsuit.
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| Primum non nocere | A Latin phrase that means "first, do no harm".
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| Statutory law or statute law | Written law set down by a legislature. May originate with national, state legislatures or local municipalities.
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| Subpoena | A formal document that orders a named individual to appear before a duly authorized body at a fixed time to give testimony.
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| Tort | Law deals with situations where a person's behavior has unfairly caused someone else to suffer loss or harm. Not necessarily an illegal act but causes harm.
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| Intentional torts | Any intentional acts that are reasonably foreseeable to cause harm to an individual, and that do so. Require an overt act, some form of intent, and causation.
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| False imprisonment | Restraint of a person in a bounded area without justification or consent
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| Defamation | Communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation a negative or inferior image.
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| Invasion of privacy | Unlawfully intrudes into private affairs, discloses private information, publicizes in a false light, or appropriates names for personal gain.
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| Unintentional Tort | Unintended accident that leads to injury, property damage or financial loss.
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| Negligence | Failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in like circumstances.
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| Malpractice | Fails to follow generally accepted professional standards, and that breach of duty is the proximate cause of injury to a plaintiff who suffers harm.
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| Trial | Principal method for resolving legal disputes that parties cannot settle by themselves or thought less formal methods.
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