Ethics and Legal

Question 1

Taking positive actions to help others

Answer 1

Beneficence

Question 2

The ability to answer for one’s actions

Answer 2

Accountability

Question 3

Rights and privileges of patients for protection of privacy.

Answer 3

Confidentiality

Question 4

The willingness to respect one’s professional obligations and follow through on promises

Answer 4

Responsibility

Question 5

The support of a specific cause

Answer 5

Advocacy

Question 6

Freedom from external control. In healthcare refers to commitment to include patient in decisions about all aspects of care

Answer 6

Autonomy

Question 7

To avoid harm or hurt

Answer 7

Nonmaleficence

Question 8

Refers to fairness

Answer 8

Justice

Question 9

The agreement to keep promises

Answer 9

Fidelity

Question 10

Primary commitment is to patient

Promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety, and rights of the patient

Answer 10

ANA Code of Ethics

Question 11

A personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude, custom, or object that sets standards that influence behavior

Answer 11

Value

Question 12

Defines actions as right and wrong based on their “right-making” characteristics. Does not look at consequences of actions.

Answer 12

Deontology

Question 13

Measures the effect that an act will have

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Utilitarianism

Question 14

Ethical concerns about the structures within which individual caring occurs

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Ethics of care

Question 15

Laws that limit liability and offer legal immunity if a nurse helps at the scene of an accident.

Answer 15

Good Samaritan Law

Question 16

A civil wrong made against a person or property

Answer 16

Tort

Question 17

Any action that places a person in apprehension of a harmful or offensive or offensive contact without consent

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Assault

Question 18

Any intentional touching without consent

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Battery

Question 19

Unjustified restraint of a person without legal warrant

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False Imprisonment

Question 20

Protects the patient’s right to be free from unwanted intrusion into his or her private affairs

Answer 20

Invasion of Privacy

Question 21

The publication of false statements that result in damage to a person’s reputation.

Answer 21

Defamation of Character

Question 22

When one speaks falsely about another

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Slander

Question 23

Written defamation of character (Charting false entries in medical records)

Answer 23

Libel

Question 24

Conduct that falls below a standard of care

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Negligence

Question 25

A type of negligence that is often referred to as professional negligence,

Answer 25

Malpractice

Question 26

A person’s agreement to allow something to happen such as surgery or invasive diagnostic procedure, base on a full disclosure of risks, alternatives, and consequences of refusal.

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Informed consent

Question 27

An organization’s system of ensuring appropriate nursing care by identifying potential hazards and eliminating them before harm occurs

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Risk Management

Question 28

A tool used in risk management

Answer 28

Occurrence/Incident Report

Question 29

A written document that directs treatment in accordance with a patient’s wishes in the event of terminal illness or condition.

Answer 29

Living Will

Question 30

A broad civil rights statute that protects the rights of people with physical or mental disabilities

Answer 30

Americans with Disabilities Act

Question 31

Provides that when a patient comes to the emergency department or the hospital, an appropriate medical screening occurs within the capacity of the hospital. If an emergency condition exists, the hospital is not to discharge or transfer the patient until the condition is stabilized.

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Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act

Question 32

If insurance plans provide mental health benefits, this act forbids plans from placing lifetime or annual limits on mental health coverage

Answer 32

Mental Health Parity Act

Question 33

An individual who is at least 18 years of age has the right to make an organ donation.

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Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

Question 34

This law provides rights to patients

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Question 35

a legal document that designates a person to make health care decisions when a patient is no longer able to make decisions on their own

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Durable Power of Attorney for Health (DPAHC)

Question 36

States that health care providers can use either cardiopulmonary or whole brain definition to determine death

Answer 36

Uniform Determination of Death Act