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35 Cards in this Set
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Liability
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Legal responsibility
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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
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Law based on the U.S. constitution
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Common law
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Law that is derived from society's acceptance of customs and norms over time. Also called case las or judge made law
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Legislative law
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Law created by law-making bodies such as congress and state assembl ies. Also called statutory law
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Administrative law
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Law that is enacted by governmental agencies at either the federal of state level
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Criminal law
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Division of the legal system that deals with wrongs committed against society and it's members.
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Civil law
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Incident, investigation, filing of complaint, answering of a complaint, discovery, trial, decision, appeal, settlement.
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Scope of practice
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Range of duties and skills paramedics are allowed and expected to perform.
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Commonly mandated reports
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Spouse abuse, child abuse and neglect, elder abuse, sexual assault, gunshot and stab wounds, animal bites, communicable disease
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Immunity
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Exemption from legal liabilty
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Good Samaritan laws
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Laws that provide immunity to certain people who assist at the scene of a medical emergency
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Negligence
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Deviation from accepted standards of care recognized by law for the protection of others against the unreasonable risk of harm
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The four elements of negligence
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Duty to act, breach of that duty, actual damage, proximate cause
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Duty to act
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A formal contracted or informal legal obligation to provide care
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Breach of duty
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An action or inaction that violates the standard of care expected from a paramedic
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Standard of care
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The degree of care, skill, and judgement that would be expected under like or similar circumstances by a similarly trained, reasonable paramedic from the same community.
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Malfeasance
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A breach of duty by performance of a wrongful or unlawful act
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Misfeasance
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A breach of duty by performance of a legal act in a manner that is harmful or injurious
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Nonfeasance
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A breach of duty by failure to perform a required act or duty
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Res ipsa loquitur
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A legal doctrine invoked by plaintiffs to support a claim of negligence. Latin meaning "the things that speaks for itself"
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Actual damages
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Refers to compensable physical, psychological, or financial harm
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Proximate cause
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Action or inaction of the paramedic that immediately caused or worsened the damage suffered by the patient
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Defamation
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An intentional false communication that injures another person's reputation or good name
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Libel
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The act of injuring a persons character, name, or reputation by false statement in writing or by mass media
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Slander
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Acts of injuring a person's character, name, or reputation by false of malicious intent or reckless disregard for the falsity of those statements
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Consent
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A patient granting permission for treatment
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Involuntary consent
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Consent to treatment granted by the authority of a court order
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Abandonment
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Termination of paramedic- patient relationship without assurance that an equal or greater level of care will continue
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Assault
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An act that unlawfully places a person in apprehension of immediate bodily harm
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Battery
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The unlawful touching of an individual author his consent
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False imprisonment
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Intentional and unjustifiable detention of a person without his consent of other legal authority
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Reasonable force
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The minimal amount of force necessary to ensure that an unruly or violent person does not cause injury to himself of others
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Advance directive
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A document created to ensure that certain treatment choices are honored when a pt is unconscious or otherwise unable to express his choice of treatment
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Advance Directives
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Living will
Durable POA DNR offers Organ donor cards |
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Living will
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A legal document that allows a person to specify the kinds of medical treatment he wishes to receive should the need arise
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