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Chap 3 vocab
medical, legal, and ethical issues
Question | Answer |
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assault | unlawfully placing person in fear of immediate bodily harm |
abandonment | unilateral termination of care |
advance directive | specifies treatment if Pt is unconscious or unable to make decisions |
Battery | Unlawfully touching a person |
Certification | process that recognizes a person has met stanards |
Competent | able to make decisions |
Duty to act | responsibility to provide Pt care |
Expressed consent | specific authorization to provide care expressed by the Pt |
consent | granted permission |
forcible restraint | confining a person from metal or physical action |
implied consent | legal assumption that treatment was desired |
Proximate causation | when a person who has duty abuses it and causes harm |
medicolegal | relating to law or forensic medicine |
Negligence | failure to provide standard of care |
standard of care | accepted level of care consistent with training |
kidnapping | removing by force |
Public Health Information (PHI) | information on Pt health care status |
morality | code of conduct that can be defined by society/culture |
ethics | the philosophy of right and wrong |
bioethics | the study of ethics related to issues that arise in health care |