Unit One; chapters 7, 14, 15, 16

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Constitution

Question 2

Touching someone without their permission.

Answer 2

Battery

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Assault

Question 4

A intentionally false communication either published or publicly spoken.

Answer 4

Defamation

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Criminal Law

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Contract Law

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Common Law

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Civil Law

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Administrative Law

Question 10

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

Answer 10

False Imprisonment

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

Good Samaritan Law

Question 12

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.

Answer 12

Living Will

Question 13

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.

Answer 13

Malpractice

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Negligence

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Power of Attorney

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Public Law

Question 17

A civil wrong for which a remedy may be obtained.

Answer 17

Tort

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Coercive Power

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Collective Bargaining

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Connective Power

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Expert Power

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Information Power

Question 23

The power to reward others.

Answer 23

Reward Power

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Legitimate Power

Question 25

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.

Answer 25

Moral Change

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Organizational Power

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Personal Power

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Politics

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Power

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Professional Power

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Referent Power

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Source of Power

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Workplace Advocacy

Question 34

An individual's right to self-determination and individual liberty.

Answer 34

Autonomy

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Beneficence

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Compassion

Question 37

Keeping information private.

Answer 37

Confidentiality

Question 38

The possession of acuteness of judgement.

Answer 38

Discernment

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Ethical Dilemma

Question 40

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.

Answer 40

Ethics

Question 41

The principle of keeping a promise or one's word.

Answer 41

Fidelity

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Integrity

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Justice

Question 44

Behavior in accordance with custom or tradition.

Answer 44

Morality

Question 45

The principle of doing no harm.

Answer 45

Non-maleficence

Question 46

A statement of beliefs based on core values.

Answer 46

Philosophy

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Trustworthiness

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Values

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Values Clarification

Question 50

The obligation to tell the truth

Answer 50

Veracity

Question 51

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

Answer 51

Culture

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Culturally Competent Care

Question 53

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.

Answer 53

Culture Shock

Question 54

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

Answer 54

Generation

Question 55

The separation of some cultural groups away from the mainstream.

Answer 55

Marginalization

Question 56

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

Answer 56

Race

Question 57

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.

Answer 57

Spiritual Distress