Pvc Leagal Terms2

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Include a variety of legal and lay documents that allow persons to specify aspects of care they wish to receive should they become unable to make or communicate their preference

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Advance healthcare directives

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A written response made by the defendants

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Answer

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Can be described as an attempt to threat or to touch another person unjustifiably

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Assault

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Or postmortem examination is an examination of the body after death. Only performed on certain circumstances.

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Autopsy

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The willful touching a person or the person’s clothes or even something the person is carrying that may or may not harm

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Battery

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The failure to act as a reasonable prudent nurse under the circumstances

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Breach of duty

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The duty to prove an assertion of wrongdoing

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Burden of proof

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It must be proved that harm occurred as a direct result of the nurses failure to follow the standard care and that the nurse could have known that failure to follow the standard of care could result in such harm

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Causation

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Deals with disputes between individual and society as a whole

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Civil actions

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The body of laws that deal with relationships among private individuals

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Civil law

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Laws evolving from court decisions

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Common law

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A document that is filed by a person referred to as a plaintive he claims that his or her legal rights have been infringed on my one or more other persons or entities, referred to as defendants

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Complaint

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The enforcement of agreements among private individuals with the payment of compensation for failure to fulfill agreements

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Contract law

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Refers to the nurses duty of care, established by the presence of an expressed or implied contact

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Contractual obligation’s

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Vary among practice settings

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Contractual relationships

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A public official not necessarily a physician, appointed or elected to inquire the cause of death when appropriate.

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Coroner

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The process of determining in maintaining competence in nursing practice

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Credentialing

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Is an act committed in violation of public criminal law and punishable by a fine or imprisonment

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Crime

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Deal with disputers between an individual and society as a whole

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Criminal action

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Deals with actions against the safety and welfare of the public

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Criminal law

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If malpractice caused the injury the nurse is held liable for damage that may be compensated. The goal of awarding damages to restore the injured party back to original position as far as financially possible

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Damages

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Is communication that is false or made with a careless disregard for the truth and result in injury to the reputation of a person

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Defamation

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The transfer of responsibility for the performance of an activity from one person to another while retaining accountability for the outcome

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Delegation

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For clients who are in a stage of terminal irreversible illness or expected death. Expressed the wish for no recess a Tatian in the event of the respiratory or cardiac arrest.

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Do not resuscitate

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Both parties engage in pre-trial activities and effort to obtain all the facts of the situation

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Discovery

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The nurse must have or should have had a relationship with the client that involves providing care and following an acceptable standard of care

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Duty

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The act of painlessly putting to death person suffering from incurable or distressing disease

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Euthanasia

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Have special training and expertise or skills in a relevant area and is allowed by the court to offer an opinion on some issues with in her area of expertise

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Expert witness

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May take the form of either an oral or written agreement. Usually the more invasive a procedure or the greater the potential risk for the client the greater the need for written permission

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Express consent

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The unjustifiable detention of a personwithout legal right to confine the person

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False imprisonment

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A crime of serious nature such as murder punishable by a term in prison. In some cases second-degree murder is called manslaughter

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Felony

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A link must exist between the nurses act in the injuries suffered

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Foreseeability

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Involves extreme lack of knowledge, skill, or decision making that the person clearly should have known would put others at risk for harm

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Gross negligence

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A nurses inability to perform essential job functions because of chemical dependency on drugs or alcohol for mental illness.

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Impaired nurse

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Exist when the individuals nonverbal behavior indicates agreement

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Implied consent

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And organized work stoppage by a group of employees to express a grievance, enforce a damage for changes in condition of employment, or solve a dispute with management.

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Informed consent

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The client a plaintiff must demonstrate some type of harm or injury, physical ,financial or emotional as a result of the breach of duty owed the client

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Injury

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A legal inquiry into the case or manner of a death. To determine any blame

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Inquest

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Call the nurse licensure compact. NLC is an agreement between two or more states. The mechanism used to create mutual recognization among states

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Interstate compact

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A direct wrong of a personal nature. It injures the feelings of the person and does not take into account The effect of revealed information on the reputation of the persons in the community.

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Invasion of privacy

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The sum total of rules, and regulations by which society is governed

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Law

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The quality or state of being legally responsible ones obligations and actions and for making financial restitution for wrongful acts

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Liability

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Defamation by means of print, writing, or pictures

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Libel

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A legal permit that government agencies grant to individuals to engage in the practice of a profession and to use a particular title

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License

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The action of a lawsuit

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Litigation

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Provide specific instructions about what medical treatment the client chooses to omelette or a fuse

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Living will

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Is professional Negligence that is negligence that occurred while the person was performing as a professional

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Malpractice

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Required by law to report suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation

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Mandated reporters

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Is a physician and usually has advanced education in pathology or forensic medicine

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Medical examiner

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Innocence of a less serious matter and usually punishable by a fine or short term jail sentence or both

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Misdemeanor

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Allows for multi state licensure

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Mutual recognization model

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Is misconduct or practice that is below the standard expected of an ordinary reasonable and prudent person

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Negligence

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The body of law that deals with relationships between individuals in the government in the governmental agencies

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Public law

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Another doctrine or principal "the things speaks for itself". Example; harm that results when surgical instruments or bandages I accidentally left in a client during surgery

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Res it's loquitur

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Let the master answer. Employer assumes responsibility for the conduct of the employee and can also be held responsible for malpractice by the employee

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Respondent superior

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The obligation associated with a right

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Responsibility

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A privilege or fundamental power to which an individual is entitled unless it is revoked by law or given up voluntarily

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Right

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Is defamation by the spoken word stating unprivileged or false words I wish reputation is damaged

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Slander

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Laws and acted by any legislative body. When federal and state laws conflict, federal law supersedes. Likewise state laws supersede local laws

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Statutory laws

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And organized work stoppage by a group of employees to express a grievance, enforce a demand for changes in condition of employment or solve a dispute with management

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Strike

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A civil wrong committed against a person or persons property

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Tort

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Enforces duties and rights among private individuals that are not based on contractual agreement

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Tort law

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In the trial of case all relevant facts are presented to a jury or only to a judge

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Trial

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Includes incompetence or gross negligence, conviction for practicing without a license, falsification of client records, and illegally obtaining, using our possessing controlled substances. Having personal relationships with the client, especially a vulnerable client.

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Unprofessional conduct