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Ethics and Legal Flashcards

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Taking positive actions to help others

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Beneficence

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The ability to answer for one’s actions

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Accountability

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Rights and privileges of patients for protection of privacy.

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Confidentiality

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

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Responsibility

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The support of a specific cause

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Advocacy

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

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Autonomy

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To avoid harm or hurt

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Nonmaleficence

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Refers to fairness

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Justice

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The agreement to keep promises

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Fidelity

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Primary commitment is to patient

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

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ANA Code of Ethics

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

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Value

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

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Deontology

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Measures the effect that an act will have

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Utilitarianism

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Ethical concerns about the structures within which individual caring occurs

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Ethics of care

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

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Good Samaritan Law

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A civil wrong made against a person or property

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Tort

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

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Assault

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Any intentional touching without consent

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Battery

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Unjustified restraint of a person without legal warrant

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False Imprisonment

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

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Invasion of Privacy

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

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Defamation of Character

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When one speaks falsely about another

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Slander

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

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Libel

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Conduct that falls below a standard of care

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Negligence

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

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Malpractice

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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

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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

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A tool used in risk management

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Occurrence/Incident Report

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

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Living Will

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

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Americans with Disabilities Act

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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

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

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Mental Health Parity Act

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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

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This law provides rights to patients

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

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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)

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

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Uniform Determination of Death Act

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