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35 Cards in this Set
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Name intentional torts
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- Assault
- battery - false imprisonment |
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Name unintentional torts
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- Negligence
- professional negligence |
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Intentional threat of fear ( no contact required)
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Assault
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Physical contact without consent
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Battery
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Unjustifiable detention of a person chemical or physical
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False imprisonment
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Four things that must be present to file malpractice
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- nurse had a duty
- nurse breached duty - injury resulted - patient suffered, and has incurred damage due to harm |
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Legal guidelines for safe nursing practice
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Standards of care
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DefiNe and describe the scope of nursing practice
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State nurse practice act
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Refers to the consideration of standards of conduct or the study of philosophical ideas of right and wrong behavior and refers to a set of moral principals and a code for behavior that govern an individuals actions with other individuals actions with other individuals within society
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Ethics
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Is what people believe is to be right and good
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Morality
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A persons judgement action about a behavior based on values
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Morals
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A persons belief about the worth held for an idea, custom, or object
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Value
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Refers to the moral issues and problems that have arisen as a result of modern healthcare and research
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Bioethics (clinical ethics)
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The right to participate in and decided on a course of action without undue influence
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Autonomy
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The principal that deals with fairness, equity and equality and provides for an individual to claim that to which they are entitled
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Justice
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Making a decision based on criteria and outcome
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Comparitive justice
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A method of distributing needed kidneys using a lottery system is an example of?
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Noncomparitive justice
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Strict observance of promises or duties keep promises
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Fidelity
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Promotes taking positive active steps to help others and encourages you to do good for the patient, what is in the best interest of the patient not the health care provider
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Beneficence
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The principal and obligation of doing good and avoiding harm. The fundamental agreement to do no harm; promotes an effort to consider the potential for harm even when the action promotes health
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Nonmaleficence
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The duty to tell the truth
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Veracity
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Specific knowledge and skills needed to perform a task
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Competence
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Involoves giving the patients the information they need to make decisions and to support those ideas. Try to understand the patient and share the patients point of view with other health care providers
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Advocacy
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Defines actions as right or wrong based on the characteristics of fidelity, truth, and justice. Considers that some acts are right or wrong independent of their consequences. Looks to ones obligation to determine what is ethical
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Denotology
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Considers the greatest good for the largest number of people
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Utiltarianism
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Guides healthcare professionals to measure the effects or consequences that an act will have. Actions are determined and justified by the consequence of the act
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Teleological
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Resolves ethical dilemmas by appealing to one intuition w moral faculty of a person which directly knows what is right or wrong
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Intuition
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Resolves ethical delemmas by first determining what rights or moral claims are involved and take precedence
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Rights ethics
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Pay attention to the nursing point of view and nursing care
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Ethics of care
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First federal law to legally classify drugs that are habit forming as narcotics
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The Harrison narcotics act of 1914
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Known as the controlled substance act, categorizes controlled substances and limits how often a prescription can be filled
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Comprehensive drug abuse Prevention and control act of 1970
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Tells us what kind of person one ought to be rather than what they do. The focus is on the character or goodness of the person
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Virtue ethics
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Federal state or statutory laws that determine crimes,
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Criminal law
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Crime of injury does not inflict serious harm
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Misdemeanor < 6mon jail time
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Serious offense that results in serious harm to another person or society > 1 yr up to death
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Felony
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