Legal Responsibilities Flashcards
Criminal law
Wrongs against person, property, or society
Legal responsibilities
Those that are authorized or based on law
Civil law
Legal relationship between people and rights
Torts
Wrongful acts that do no involve contracts; healthcare provider doesn’t meet expected standards
Malpractice
Tort, failure to use degree/skill like expected resulting in injury, loss, damage
Negligence
Failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a profession
threat attempt to injure
Assault
Unlawful touching of other person wo consent
Battery
Exposing/revealing info wo consent
Invasion of privacy- Hippaform
False imprisonment
Restraining individual freedom
Abuse
Care resulting in physical mental pain
Defamation
False statements ridicule damage reputation
Libel
Written defamation
Slander
Spoken defamation
Medical malpractice insurance
Prevent doctors from getting sued for everything
Contract
Agreement btw 2 or more parties
Offer
1st part of contract; person offers to be patient
Acceptance
2nd part of contract; gives appointment/treatment
Consideration
Payment made by patients
Implied contracts
Obligations, understood not venally expressed
Expressed contracts
Distinct, clear, oral, writing
Not eligible for legal contract
Minors, mentally incompetent, under drugs, semi or unconscious
Agent
Person works under employer
Principal
Employer, is liable
Privileged communication
Confide within healthcRe team, written consent to release to others
Exceptions to privileged communication
Births/deaths, violence/police involvement, drug abuse, communicable diseases, STDS
HIPAA Pricacy
Use or share of in divi dual health cRe
Hyppa security rule
Maintain privacy of elk Tronic healthcare info
Who can see healthcare info
Health insurance companies billing companies and healthcare providers
What special request from patient requires the use of a phone
The special request for appointment reminders or other imfo f via phone in which info in a voicemail should be left to a minimum
Clinical death
One heart stops beating and breathing stops can be reversed by CPR
Biological death
Brain death ,not reversible, and this stuff is used for removal of life support and organ donation
What are some common reactions to impending death
Fear ,abandonment ,pain ,and loneliness ,fear of the unknown ,and anxiety about love ones, unfinished work and unfinished dreams ,or the view that this is the end of suffering or the beginning of the new
Hypes of grieving
Denial ,anger, bargaining ,depression ,acceptance
What are the roles of the healthcare worker and death
Be supportive ,allow them to express her feelings, help them accomplish final test ,make sure that they are pain-free and comfortable
Hospice
Facility to provide care for terminally ill with less than six months to live, death with dignity, pain relief and pallet of care
Living wills
Allow people to say what measures should or should not be taken to a long life when conditions are true
Durable power of attorney
Permits other person to make decisions for health is unable to make decisions
Patient self-determination act
Healthcare places with federal money must provide every adult patient with info regarding advanced directives and honor them
The two types of advanced directives
Living wills and durable power of attorney
What is physician-assisted suicide
Where to commit suicide with a terminally ill patient with a physician that gives you drugs that the patient takes on their own, legal in Oregon and Washington
What is euthanasia
Medical doctor administrated lethal dose of a drive to cause death of a terminally ill patient, illegal everywhere
