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Unit One; chapters 7, 14, 15, 16 Flashcards

1
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A set of basic laws that specifies the posers of the various segments of a government and how the segments related to each other.

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Constitution

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2
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Touching someone without their permission.

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Battery

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3
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The offer to touch or threat of touching other in an offensive manner without the person’s permission.

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Assault

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4
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A intentionally false communication either published or publicly spoken.

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Defamation

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5
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A branch of law that focuses on the actions of individuals that can intentionally do harm to others.

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Criminal Law

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6
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Rules that regulate certain transaction between individuals and/or legal entities such as business.

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Contract Law

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7
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The body of law that develops from precedent set by judicial decisions that, overtime, have the force of law, as distinguished from legislative enactments.

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Common Law

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8
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The body of law that governs how individuals relate to each other everyday matters.

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Civil Law

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9
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A body of law created by administrative agencies in the form of rules, regulations, orders, and decisions that protect the rights of citizens.

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Administrative Law

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10
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Occurs when people are incorrectly led to believe they cannot leave a place.

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False Imprisonment

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11
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The laws that have been enacted to protest the health care professional from legal liability for actions rendered an emergency when the professional is giving service without pay.

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Good Samaritan Law

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12
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A document voluntarily signed by patients that specifies the type of care they desire if & when they are in a terminal state and cannot sign a consent form or convert this information verbally.

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Living Will

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13
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A professional’s wrongful conduct in discharge of professional duties or failure to meet standards of care for the profession, which results in harm to an individual entrusted to the professional’s care.

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Malpractice

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14
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Failure to provide the care a reasonable person would ordinarily provide in a similar situation.

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Negligence

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15
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A legal document executed by an individual (principal) granting another person (agent) the right to perform certain activities in the principal’s name.

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Power of Attorney

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16
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A general classification of law consisting usually of constitutional, administrative, and criminal law

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Public Law

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17
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A civil wrong for which a remedy may be obtained.

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Tort

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18
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Power that comes with the ability to punish others to influence them to change their behavior.

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Coercive Power

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19
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A group working with management to achieve what the group desires.

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Collective Bargaining

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20
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A strength that comes from the extent to which person’s are connected with others having power.

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Connective Power

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21
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Power derived from the knowledgeable and skills nurse possess. The more they are perceived as an expert.

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Expert Power

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22
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The power persons have who influence others through the knowledge they provide to the group.

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Information Power

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23
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The power to reward others.

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Reward Power

24
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The power derived from the position a person holds in a group; it indicates’s a person’s degree of authority.

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Legitimate Power

25
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Acting when unsafe, illegal, or unethical practice occurs, even if the action is unpopular, or call for one to stand alone, in order to defend patients & maintain ethical standards of care.

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Moral Change

26
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The power acquired and exercised through formal and informal roles in the workplace and the health care system.

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Organizational Power

27
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The power an individual acquires and exercises through informal and formal roles in the family and community.

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Personal Power

28
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The process by which people use a variety of methods to achieve their goals.

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Politics

29
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The ability to create, get, and use resources to achieve one’s goals.

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Power

30
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The power acquired and exercised through a formal role in a profession.

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Professional Power

31
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The power derived from how much others respect and like any individual, groups, or organization.

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Referent Power

32
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A combination conscious and unconscious factors that allow an individual to influence others to do as the individual wants.

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Source of Power

33
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Activities that persons undertake to address problems in their everyday workplace setting.

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Workplace Advocacy

34
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An individual’s right to self-determination and individual liberty.

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Autonomy

35
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The duty to do good to others and to maintain a balance between benefits and harms.

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Beneficence

36
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A deep awareness of the suffering of another along with the desire to relieve it.

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Compassion

37
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Keeping information private.

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Confidentiality

38
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The possession of acuteness of judgement.

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Discernment

39
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A conflict between two or more ethical principle for which there is no obviously correct decision.

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Ethical Dilemma

40
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The branch of philosophy that concerns the distinction between right and wrong on the basis of a body of knowledge, not just on the basis of opinions.

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Ethics

41
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The principle of keeping a promise or one’s word.

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Fidelity

42
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The firm adherence to a code of conduct or an ethical value.

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Integrity

43
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The principle of fairness that is served when an individual is given that he/she is due, owed, deserves, or can legitimately claim.

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Justice

44
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Behavior in accordance with custom or tradition.

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Morality

45
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The principle of doing no harm.

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Non-maleficence

46
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A statement of beliefs based on core values.

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Philosophy

47
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The quality existing in a person when trust is well founded or deserving.

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Trustworthiness

48
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Personal belief about the truth of ideals, standards, principles, objects, and behaviors that gives meaning and direction to life.

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Values

49
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The process of analyzing one’s values to better understand what is truly important.

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Values Clarification

50
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The obligation to tell the truth

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Veracity

51
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Patterns of thought and acton contributing to a group’s social and physical survival.

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Culture

52
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Care that integrates knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enhance cross-cultural communication and appropriate interactions.

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Culturally Competent Care

53
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The reaction when the values and beliefs upheld by a person’s new culture are radically different from those of the person’s native culture.

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Culture Shock

54
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A group that shares birth years, age, location, and significant life events.

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Generation

55
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The separation of some cultural groups away from the mainstream.

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Marginalization

56
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A geographical or global segment of a human population as distinguished by genetic traits and physical characteristics.

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Race

57
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A condition in which an individual has an impaired ability to integrate meaning and purpose in life through the individuals connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature, nature, or a power greater than self.

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Spiritual Distress

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