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40 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 Canadian Constitution.
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Common Law
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A law derived from society's acceptance over time of customs and norms. Also called case law or judge made law.
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Legislative Law
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Law created by such law making bodies as federal and provincial or territorial assemblies. Also called statutory law.
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Administrative Law
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A law that is enacted by governmental agencies at either the federal or the provincial and territorial level. Also called regulatory law.
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Criminal Law
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Division of the legal system that deals with wrongs committed against society or it's members.
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Civil Law
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the division of the legal system that deals with noncriminal issues and conflicts between two or more parties.
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Tort
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A civil wrong committed by one individual against another.
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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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Immunity
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Exemption from legal liability.
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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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Neglegence
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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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Duty to Act
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A formal contractual 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 judgment expected under like or similar circumstances from a similarly trained, reasonable paramedic in 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 it is a Latin term that means "the thing speaks for itself"
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Actual Damages
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Refers to compensatable 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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Confidentiality
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the principle of law that prohibits the release of medical or other personal information about a patient without the patients consent.
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Defamation
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An intentional false communication that injures another persons reputation or good name.
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Libel
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Injuring a persons character, name or reputation by false statements made in writing or Mass media with disregard for the falsity of statements
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Slander
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Injuring a persons character, name, reputation by statements spoken with malicious intent or disregard for the falsity of those statements.
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Consent
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The patients granting permission for treatment.
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Competent
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Able to make an informed decision about medical care.
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Informed Consent
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Consent for treatment that is given based on full disclosure of information.
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Expressed Consent
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Verbal, nonverbal or written communication by a patient that she wants to receive medical care.
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Implied Consent
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Consent for treatment that is presumed for a patient who is mentally physically or emotionally unable to grant consent. Also called emergency doctrine.
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Involuntary Consent
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Consent to treatment granted by the authority of court order.
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Minor
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Depending on provincial or territorial law, this is usually a person under the age of 18
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Emancipated Minor
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A person under 18, who is married, pregnant a parent a member of armed forces or financially independent and living away from home.
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Abandonment
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Termination of the 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 without consent.
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Battery
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The unlawful touching of another individual without consent.
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False Imprisonment
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Intentional and unjustifiable detention of a person without consent or 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 herself or others.
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Advance Directive
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A document created to ensure that certain treatment choices are honored when a patient is unconscious or otherwise unable to express her choice treatment.
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Living Will
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A legal document that allows a person to specify the kinds of medical treatment she wants to receive should the need arise.
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