Legal and Ethical Issues

Question 1

Criminal Law

Answer 1

Focuses on a behavior known as a crime with wrongs against a person, property, or society

Question 2

Civil Law

Answer 2

Focuses on legal relationships between people and protection of a person’s right

Question 3

Tort

Answer 3

Wrongful act not involving a contract(civil wrong)

Occurs when a person is harmed/injured because a healthcare provider didn’t meet an expected standard

Question 4

Malpractice

Answer 4

Bad practice defined as the failure of a professional to use the degree of skill and learning resulting in injury, loss, or damage

Question 5

Negligence

Answer 5

Failure to give care that is normally expected of a person resulting in injury

Question 6

Assault

Answer 6

A threat or attempt to injure

Question 7

Battery

Answer 7

Battery includes the unlawful touching of another person without consent

Question 8

Informed consent

Answer 8

Permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind and who has been instructed about risks involved

Question 9

Invasion of privacy

Answer 9

Physical invasion includes unnecessarily exposing individuals or revealing information without consent

Question 10

False imprisonment

Answer 10

Restraining an individual or restricting an individual’s freedom without authorization

Question 11

Physical abuse

Answer 11

Hitting, forcing people against will, restraining movement, deprivation of food and water, and not providing physical care

Question 12

Verbal abuse

Answer 12

Speaking harshly, using inappropriate language to describe a person in a derogatory way

Question 13

Psychological abuse

Answer 13

Threatening harm, denying rights, intimidating or ridiculing the person

Question 14

Sexual abuse

Answer 14

Any sexual touching or act, sexual gestures, and suggesting sexual behavior

Question 15

Domestic abuse

Answer 15

An intimate partner uses threats, manipulation, aggression, or violent behavior to maintain power and control

Question 16

Defamation

Answer 16

False statements causing a person to be ridiculed or damage a reputation

Question 17

Slander

Answer 17

Information spoken in defamation

Question 18

Libel

Answer 18

Information written in defamation

Question 19

Contracts

Answer 19

Agreement between two or more parties

Question 20

Offer

Answer 20

Health care facility has treatment they can provide and individual offers to be a patient

Question 21

Acceptance

Answer 21

Patient makes appointment with health care facility and accepts terms, health care accepts individual as a patient

Question 22

Consideration

Answer 22

Patient receives treatment or services, provider receives payment

Question 23

Implied Contracts

Answer 23

Obligations understood without verbally expressed terms

Question 24

Expressed Contracts

Answer 24

Stated in distinct and clear language(orally/written)

Question 25

Employer

Answer 25

Principal

Question 26

Employee

Answer 26

Agent

Question 27

Privileged Communications

Answer 27

Compromises all information given to health care by patients

Information must be kept confidential and shared with members of healthcare team

Question 28

Ethics

Answer 28

Set of principles relating to what is morally right and wrong

Question 29

Advance directives

Answer 29

Legal documents allowing individuals to state what medical treatment they want to do or don’t

Question 30

Living wills

Answer 30

Documents allowing individuals to state what measures should or shouldn’t be taken to prolong life when conditions are terminal

Question 31

Designation of Health Care Surrogate/Durable Power of Attorney(POA)

Answer 31

Document permitting an individual to appoint someone else to make any decisions regarding health care if the principal is unable to make decisions

Question 32

Patient Self-Determination Act(PSDA)

Answer 32

Inform every adult, both orally and written, of their rights under state law concerning medical care