Law and Ethics
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Abandonment | A health care professional's failure to provide care to a patient, especially when there is an implied contract to do so. |
| Administrative law | A law created by an agency or a department of the government. |
| Advance Directive | A document in which a person gives instructions about his or her medical care in the event that the individual cannot speak for himself or herself. |
| Court Trial | A trial in which a judge determines the factual evidence and makes the final judgment. |
| Damages | Money awarded in a civil to suit to compensate the injured party. |
| Defamation | A derogatory statement concerning another person's skill, character, or reputation. |
| Delegation | The assignment of one's duties to another person. In medicine, the person who delegates a duty retains accountability for the action of the other person. |
| Deposition | The testimony of a witness given under oath and transcribed by a court reporter during the pretrial phase of a civil lawsuit. |
| Ethics | Standards of behavior that are accepted within groups. |
| Ethical Dilemma | Situations in which ethical choices involve conflicting values. |
| Informed Consent | Process of obtaining permission from a client to perform a specific test or procedure after describing all risks, side effects, and benefits. |
| Insurance | A contract in which the insurance company agrees to defend the policy holder if that individual is sued for acts covered by the policy and to pay for damages up to the policy limit. |
| Jury Trial | A trial in which a case is presented to a selected jury,and the facts and final judgment are determined by the jury. |
| Impairment (cognitive) | A physiological condition in which a person is unable to carry out normal cognitive tasks, such as rational decision making. |
| Laws | Standards that apply to all people in a given society. |
| Liable | Legally responsible and accountable. |
| Libel | Defamation in writing. |
| Living Will | A legal document that indicates what medical intervention an individual wants if he or she becomes incapable of expressing those wishes. |
| Malpractice | failure of professional duty or professional misconduct |
| Medical Ethics | moral standards of conduct that are traditionally accepted by professional medical organizations |
| Medical Power of Attorney | a legal document signed by a person wh is giving another individual the power to make heath care decisions for the first person if they become incompetent |
| Negligence | failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances |
| Operative Report | A patient record of the surgery, which is maintained and submitted by the attending circulating nurse. |
| Perjury | The crime of intentionally lying or falsifying information during court testimony after a person has sworn to tell the truth. |
| Professional Ethics | Ethical behavior esablished by authoritative peers of a particular profession, such as medicine or law. |
| Professional license | Governmental permission to perform specified functions. |
| Punitive | Actions intended to punish a person who has violated the law. |
| Retained Object | An item that is inadvertently left inside the patient during surgery. |
| Sentinel Event | an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury. |
| Sexual Harassment | Sexual coercion, sexual innuendos, or unwanted sexual comments, gestures or touch. |
| Slander | Spoken defamation. |
| Statutes | Laws passed by legislative bodies. |
| Subpeona | a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony at a trial or deposition. |
| Summons | a court order directing the defendant to appear in court and answer the complaint |
| Time Out | A mandated procedure for ensuring that surgery is performed on the correct site and side. |
| Tort | A wrong, independent of contract law violations, perpetrated by one person against another person or person's property. |
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