Ethics and Legal Flashcards
Taking positive actions to help others
Beneficence
The ability to answer for one’s actions
Accountability
Rights and privileges of patients for protection of privacy.
Confidentiality
The willingness to respect one’s professional obligations and follow through on promises
Responsibility
The support of a specific cause
Advocacy
Freedom from external control. In healthcare refers to commitment to include patient in decisions about all aspects of care
Autonomy
To avoid harm or hurt
Nonmaleficence
Refers to fairness
Justice
The agreement to keep promises
Fidelity
Primary commitment is to patient
Promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety, and rights of the patient
ANA Code of Ethics
A personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude, custom, or object that sets standards that influence behavior
Value
Defines actions as right and wrong based on their “right-making” characteristics. Does not look at consequences of actions.
Deontology
Measures the effect that an act will have
Utilitarianism
Ethical concerns about the structures within which individual caring occurs
Ethics of care
Laws that limit liability and offer legal immunity if a nurse helps at the scene of an accident.
Good Samaritan Law
A civil wrong made against a person or property
Tort
Any action that places a person in apprehension of a harmful or offensive or offensive contact without consent
Assault
Any intentional touching without consent
Battery
Unjustified restraint of a person without legal warrant
False Imprisonment
Protects the patient’s right to be free from unwanted intrusion into his or her private affairs
Invasion of Privacy
The publication of false statements that result in damage to a person’s reputation.
Defamation of Character
When one speaks falsely about another
Slander
Written defamation of character (Charting false entries in medical records)
Libel
Conduct that falls below a standard of care
Negligence
A type of negligence that is often referred to as professional negligence,
Malpractice
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.
Informed consent
An organization’s system of ensuring appropriate nursing care by identifying potential hazards and eliminating them before harm occurs
Risk Management
A tool used in risk management
Occurrence/Incident Report
A written document that directs treatment in accordance with a patient’s wishes in the event of terminal illness or condition.
Living Will
A broad civil rights statute that protects the rights of people with physical or mental disabilities
Americans with Disabilities Act
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.
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
If insurance plans provide mental health benefits, this act forbids plans from placing lifetime or annual limits on mental health coverage
Mental Health Parity Act
An individual who is at least 18 years of age has the right to make an organ donation.
Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
This law provides rights to patients
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
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
Durable Power of Attorney for Health (DPAHC)
States that health care providers can use either cardiopulmonary or whole brain definition to determine death
Uniform Determination of Death Act
