Fundalmental Nursing Skills and Concepts: Chapter 3- Laws and Ethics Vocabulary
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Created by:
sophearvy_phe on August 20, 2009
Subjects:
Nurse, nursing, NURSING FUNDAMENTALS, Laws, ethics
Description:
Chapter 3-Laws and Ethics Vocabulary Pages 35-41 Only
Classes:
Nursing, Olympic College ADN - 2013, nursing group, Hennepin Technical College Study Group
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Laws | Rules of conduct established and enforced by the government of a society |
| Statutory Laws | Laws enacted by federal, state, or local legislature |
| Administrative Laws | Legal Provisions through which federal, state, and local agencies maintain self-regulation |
| Board of Nursing | Regulatory agency that manages the provisions of a state's nurse practice act |
| Reciprocity | Licensure based on evidence of having met licensing criteria in another state |
| Nurse Licensure Compacts | Agreements between states in which a nurse licensed in one can practice in another without obtaining an additional license |
| Telenursing | the use of telecommunications and information technology for providing nursing services in health care whenever a large physical distance exists between patient and nurse, or between any number of nurses |
| Common Laws | Decisions based on prior cases of a similar nature |
| Criminal Laws | Penal codes that protect citizens from persons who are a threat to the public good |
| Misdemeanor | Minor Criminal Offense |
| Felony | Serious criminal offense |
| Civil Laws | Statues that protect the personal freedom s and rights of individuals |
| Plaintiff | Person who claims injury |
| Defendant | Person charged with violating the law |
| Tort | Litigation in which one person asserts that an injury, which may be physical, emotional, or financial, occurred as a consequence of another's actions or failure to act |
| Duty | Obligation to provide care for a person claiming injury or harm |
| Intentional Torts | Lawsuit in which a plaintiff charges that a defendant committed a deliberately aggressive act |
| Assault | Act in which there is a threat or attempt to do bodily harm |
| Battery | Unauthorized physical contact |
| False Imprisonment | Interference with a person's freedom to move about at will without legal authority to do so |
| Restraints | Devices or chemicals that restrict movement or access to one's body |
| Invasion of Privacy | Failure to leave people and their property alone |
| Defamation | Act in which untrue information harms a person's reputation |
| Slander | Character attack uttered in the presence of others |
| Libel | Damaging statement that is written and red by others |
| Unintentional Torts | Situation that results in an injury, although the person responsible did not mean to cause harm |
| Negligence | Harm that results because a person did not act reasonably |
| Malpractice | Professional Negligence |
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