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25 Cards in this Set
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Accountability |
Being responsible for ones own actions |
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Malpractice |
Professional misconduct; behavior that fails to meet the standard of care |
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Liable |
Legally responsible |
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Deposition |
Out of court, under oath statement of a witness |
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Verdict |
Decision |
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Liability |
Legal responsibility |
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Advocate |
One who defends or pleads a cause or issue on behalf of another |
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Standards of care |
Define acts whose performance is required, permitted, or prohibited |
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Doctrine of Informed Consent |
Refers to full disclosure of the facts the patient needs to make an intelligent (informed) decision before any invasive treatment or procedure is performed |
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Euthanasia |
Letting a person die |
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Ethics |
Values that influence a persons behavior and the individuals feelings and beliefs about what is right or wrong |
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Values |
Personal beliefs about the worth of an object, an idea , a custom or an attitude |
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Value Clarification |
The process of self-evaluation that helps gain insight into personal values |
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Ethical dilemmas |
Situations that do not have a clear right or wrong answer |
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Nonmaleficence |
Do not harm |
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Assault |
An intentional threat to cause bodily harm to another; does not have to include actual bodily contact. =Say Something (SS) |
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Battery |
Unlawful touching of another person without informed consent = To Touch (TT) |
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Libel |
A malicious or untrue writing about another person that is brought to the attention of others |
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Abandonment of Care |
Wrongful termination of providing patient care |
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Competency |
A legal presumption that a person who has reached the age of majority can make decisions for herself or himself unless proved otherwise |
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Defamation |
Spoken or written statements made maliciously and intentionally that may injure the subjects reputation |
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Harm |
Injury to a person or the persons property that gives rise to a basis for a legal action against the person who caused the damage |
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Negligence |
The commission (doing) of an act or the omission (not doing) of an act that a reasonably prudent person would have performed on a similar situation, thus causing harm to another person |
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Slander |
Malicious or untrue spoken words about another person that are brought to the attention of others |
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Tort |
A type of civil law that involves wrongs against a person or property; torts include negligence, assault, battery, defamation, fraud, false imprisonment, and invasion of privacy |
