Laws And Ethics - Nursing 225

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Advanced Directive

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Written document (e.g., living will) that states in advance a client's desires about the types of healthcare he or she wishes to receive should the client become unable to decide

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Allow natural death (AND) orders

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Procedure that dictates when nurses are unaware and encounter a client in cardiac arrest, they should resuscitate the client pending confirmation of the code status. If there is a no code order, resuscitation may be stopped once initiated

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Assult

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Threat of touching a person without his or her consent

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Assisted Suicide

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Providing the client with a means to end life, but not the direct action that results in death

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Autonomy

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Degree of discretion and independence a practitioner has

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Battery

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Unlawful touching of a person's body without his or her consent

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Beneficence

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Doing or promoting good, the basis for all healthcare

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Brain Death

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Irreversible cessation of heart and lung functions or an irreversible loss of all functions of the entire brain

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Capacity

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Mental or physical ability to make healthcare decisions

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Community-based no code order

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Document that requires the signatures of the primary physician or nurse practitioner and the client or legal surrogate and allows emergency medical personnel, if called, to provide care and support to client and family without resuscitation

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Competency

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Ability to understand rights and responsibilities

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Confidentiality

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Keeping information private

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Crime

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Violation of the law punishable by the state

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Do not resuscitate

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Order not to provide resuscitation in the event of cardiopulmonary arrest

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Double effect

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Action that can produce two outcomes, one helpful and one harmful, at the same time

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Durable power of attorney for healthcare

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Advance directive that allows a person to designate another to make decisions if the client becomes incapacitated and cannot make independent decisions

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Ethics

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Professional standards of behavior related to right and wrong

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Fidelity

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Being faithful to one's commitments and promises

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Informed consent

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Legal document giving permission for surgical or diagnostic procedure signed by client or legal guardian; before signing, the physician has explained all aspects of the procedure, including risks

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Incapacity

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Mental or physical inability to make healthcare decisions

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Justice

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Principle of fairness; basis of the obligation to treat all clients equally and fairly

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Laws

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Standards of human conduct established and enforced by the authority of an organized society through its government

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Liability

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Responsibility for one's actions; an obligation one is bound to perform

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Libel

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False communication by means of print that results in injury to a person's reputation

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Living will

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Written evidence of a client's preferences regarding treatment options

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Malpractice

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Professional misconduct, causing harm or injury to a person from lack of experience, skill, knowledge, or judgment

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Moral

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Involving correct behavior

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Negligence

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Failure to do something that a reasonably prudent person would do, or doing something that a reasonably prudent person would not do

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No code order

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Order not to provide resuscitation in the event of a cardiopulmonary arrest

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Nonmaleficence

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Principle of avoidance of doing harm

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Proxy directive (Durable power of attorney for healthcare)

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Advance directive that allows a person to designate another to make decisions if the client becomes incapacitated and cannot make decisions independently

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Res ipsa loquitur

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“The thing speaks for itself”; invoked when it is impossible to prove who was at fault when a client's injury results from negligence

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Respondeat superior

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“Let the master answer”; doctrine in which a facility is held liable for an employee's negligence

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Resuscitation

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Act of reviving after apparent death or unconsciousness

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Surrogate decision maker

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Person identified to act on a client's behalf when the client is an infant, young child, mentally handicapped or incapacitated, or in a persistent vegetative state or coma and does not have the capacity to participate in decision making about healthcare

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Slander

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False communication by spoken word that results in injury to a person's reputation

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Terminal sedation

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Infrequently used method of pain management, not considered euthanasia, provided in response to a dying person's persistent and unremitting pain and suffering; it provides analgesia that produces light sedation even though this is likely to hasten death somewhat secondary to resulting immobility

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Tort

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Wrong committed against a person or property; subject to action in a civil court

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Veracity

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Principle of telling the truth, essential to the integrity of the client-provider relationship