Abuse
Any care that results in physical harm, pain, or mental anguish.
Advance Directives
Also known as legal directives, are legal documents that allow individuals to state what medical treatment they want or do not want in the event that they become incapacitated and are unable to exspress their wishes concerning medical care.
Agent
A person working under the employer.
Assault and Battery
Assault in cludes a threat or attempt to injure and battery includes the unlawful touching of another person without consent.
Civil Law
Focuses on the legal relationships between people and the protection of person's rights; in health care deals with torts and contracts.
Confidentiality
Information about the patient must remain private and can be shared only withe members of the patients health care team.
Contract
An arrangement between two or more parties.
Criminal Law
Focuses on behavior known as crime; deals with the wrongs against a person, property, or society
Defamation
Occurs when false statements either cause a person to be ridiculed or damge the persons reputation.
Designation of Health Care Surrogate
Also called a Durable power of Attorney (POA) for Health Care, is a document that permits an individual (known as a principal) to appoint another pesron (known as an agent) to make any decision regarding health care if the principal should become unable t
Durable Power of Attorney
Is a document that permits an individual (known as a principal) to appoint another pesron (known as an agent) to make any decision regarding health care if the principal should become unable to make decisions.
Ethics
A set of principals relating to what is morally right or wrong.
Exspressed Contracts
Contracts stated in distinct and clear language, either orally or in writing.
False Imprisonment
Refers to restraing an individual or restricting an individuals freedom.
Health Care Records
Records that contain information about the care provided to the patient.
Contracts
Obligations that are understood without verbally exspressed terms.
Informed Consent
Permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind after the procedure and all risks have been explained in terms the person can understand.
Invasion of Privacy
Unnecessarily exsposing an individual or revealing personal information about an individual without that person's consent.
Legal
Responsibilities authorized or based on law.
Legal disability
A person who does not have the legal capacity to form a contract.
Libel
Written incorrect information given out in error
Living Wills
Documents that allow individuals to state what measures should or sahould not be taken to prolong life when their conditions are terminal.
Malpractice
Can be interpreted as "bad practice" ; commonly called "professional negligence" ; The failure of a professional to use the degree of skill and learning commonly exspected in that individual's profession, resulting in injury, loss, or damage to the person
Negligence
Failure to give care that is normally exspected of a person in a particular position, resulting in injury to another person.
Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)
A federal law of 1990, that mandatesthat all health care facilities recieving any type of federal aid comply with certain requirements it ensures that patients are informed of their rights anf have the opportunity to determinethe care they will recieve.
Patient's Bill of Rights
Patients rights that The American Hospital Association has affirmed that is recognizedn and honored by many health care facilities.
Patients Rights
factors of care that patients can exspect to recieve.
Priviledge Communication
Comprise all information given to helath care personnel by a patient and is kept confidential by law.
Resident's Bill of Rights
Residents in long-term care facilities are gauranteed certain rights under the (OBRA- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) of 1987.
Slander
Spoken incorrect information given out in error
Tort
A wrongful act that does not involve a contract.