1.7 Legal And Ethical Behavior And Explain Residents Rights Flashcards
Knowledge of right and wrong
Ethics
Rules set by the government to help people live peacefully Together and to ensure order and safety.
Laws
To find a problem through a survey.
Inspections may be done less often if the facility has a good Record.
CITE
Relate to how residents must be treated while living in a facility.
Residents rights
The process in which a person, with the help of a doctor, makes informed decisions about his or her health care.
Informed consent
Purposeful mistreat that cause physical, mental or emotional pain or injury to someone.
Abuse
The failure to provide needed care that result in physical, mental or emotional harm to a person.
Neglect
Any treatment, intentional or not, that causes harm to a person’s body.
Physical abuse
Emotional harm caused by threatening, scaring, humiliating, intimidating, isolating, or insulting a person or treating him or her as a child
Psychological abuse
Use of spoken or written words, pictures, or gestures that threaten, embarrass, or insult a person
Verbal abuse
Forcing of a person to perform or participate in sexual acts against his or her will.
Sexual abuse
Improper or illegal use of a person’s money, possessions, property or other assets.
Financial abuse
A threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that he or she will be harmed.
Assault
Intentional touching of a person without his or her consent.
Battery
Abuse by spouses, intimate partners or family members.
Domestic violence