Week 4 - Duty of Care and Negligence Flashcards
Threats, violence, constraints, or overt action(s) used to coercesomeone into doing something against their will or betterjudgment.
Undue Influence
An intentional unpermitted act causing harmful or offensive contact with the “person” of another
Battery
The degree of prudence and caution required of an individual(nurse) who is under a duty of care towards another (client).
Standard of Care
An intentional act by one person that creates an apprehensionin another of an imminent harmful or offensive contact.
Assault
The facility to perceive, know in advance, or reasonablyanticipate that damage or injury will probably ensue from actsor omissions
Forseeable
An injured party’s failure to act prudently, considered to be acontributory factor in the injury which they have suffered
Contributory Negligence
Agreement as to an opinion or a course of action.
Consent
Failure of one person (nurse) to take reasonable care to avoidinjury or loss upon another (client)
Negligence
The illegal confinement of one individual against his or her willby another individual in such a manner as to violate theconfined individual’s right to be free from restraint ofmovement.
False imprisonment
The tort doctrine that imposes responsibility upon one personfor the failure of another, with whom the person has a specialrelationship.
Vicarious Liability
To establish negligence in law the plaintiff must demonstrate all of the following except?
- Actual harm has been caused
- A duty of care existed
- By act or omission the duty of care was negligently breached
- The risk itself was unforeseeable
The risk itself was unforeseeable
Justifiable for one death if other actions result in nine or more deaths
Teleology
The imposition of responsibility on one person for the failure(s) of another
Vicarious Liability
Nurses act as advocates for their patients. The practice of advocacy calls for the nurse to
Assess & Articulate the patients point of view
At some point the police are involved in all Civil Trials
False
