Legal and ethical responsibilities

Question 1

Legal Responsibilities

Answer 1

Responsibilities that are authorized or based on law

Question 2

Civil Law

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Criminal Law

Answer 3

Focuses on wrongs against a person, property, or society

Question 4

Torts

Answer 4

-Wrongful acts that do not involve contracts

-This when a person is harmed or injured because a health care provider does not
meet the established or expected standards of care.

Question 5

Negligence

Answer 5

Failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in that position, results in injury, loss or damage to the person being cared for.

Question 6

Assault

Answer 6

A threat or attempt to injure.

Question 7

Battery

Answer 7

Unlawful touching of a person without consent

Question 8

Informed Consent

Answer 8

Permission granted voluntarily by a person of sound mind after the procedure
and all risks involved have been explained in terms the person can understand.

Question 9

Invasion of Privacy

Answer 9

Unnecessarily exposing an individual or revealing personal information about
the individual without the person’s consent.

Question 10

Malpractice

Answer 10

The failure of a professional to use the degree of skill and learning commonly expected in that person’s profession. Results in injury, loss or damage to the person receiving care.

Question 11

Abuse

Answer 11

Any care that results in physical harm, pain or mental anguish.

Question 12

List the four different types of abuse

Answer 12

Types of Abuse:
Physical
Verbal
Psychological
Sexual
Child
Elder 
Domestic

Question 13

Slander

Answer 13

When the defamation is spoken

Question 14

Libel

Answer 14

When defamation is written

Question 15

Defamation

Answer 15

When false statements cause a a person to ridicule or damage a persons reputation

Question 16

Contract

Answer 16

An agreement between 2 or more parties.

Question 17

offer

Answer 17

competent person enters into relationship with a healthcare providers and offers to be a patient.

Question 18

acceptance

Answer 18

healthcare providers gives an appointment, or exam or treatment to the patient.

Question 19

consideration

Answer 19

payment made by the patient for services provided

Question 20

implied contracts

Answer 20

obligations that are understood without verbally expressed terms

Question 21

Express contracts

Answer 21

stated by distinct and clear language, either orally or in writing.

Question 22

privileged communication

Answer 22

• comprises all information given to healthcare provider by a
  patient; by law this information must be kept confidential and shared only with other
  members of the patient’s health care team.

Question 23

health care records

Answer 23

contain info about the care provided to the patient

Question 24

HIPAA

Answer 24

• (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996)
• is a federal law.
• Establishes federal regulations regarding the privacy of patient information
• Patient privacy is EVERYONE’s resposibility

Question 25

HIPPA

Answer 25

This is mandatory and there are penalties for failure to comply.

Government fines imposed for privacy violations.

Question 26

Ethics

Answer 26

Set of principles relating to what is morally right or wrong

Question 27

Ethical Dilemmas

Answer 27

a necessary choice between equally undesirable ethical alternatives.

Question 28

ETHICAL dilemmas

Answer 28

• Euthanasia
• AIDS
• Aborted fetuses for research
• Discontinue life support
• Religious rights
• Financial issues
• Transplant Recipients
• Selling organs
• Use of illegal substance
• Animals in research
• cloning
• Stem cell research

Question 29

REMEMBER!!!

Answer 29

***It is your responsibility to understand the legal and ethical implications of your particular health care field.

***Ethical responsibilities are not based on law, but rather, morally right or wrong.

*** Healthcare workers MUST respect the patient’s rights.