Certified Nurse Legal Terms Study Stack
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| Actual Agency | show 🗑
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| Administrative Law | show 🗑
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| show | A voluntary statement, notarized. In some states medical expert opinions must be in the form of an affadavit.
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| show | Agency for Health Care administration. Agency designated to regulate and license health care facilities.
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| show | Exists when a person gives the impression of an employee but is not-example agency nurse.
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| Assault | show 🗑
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| Assumption of Risk | show 🗑
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| show | Intentional, unconsented touching of another person.
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| show | An empolyee of one corporation (hospital) is temporarily borrowed by another borrower(i.e. Doctor) and the borrower will be held liable for the employees negligent acts.
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| show | The standard of care for that type of specialty and a determination of whether there has been an act of omission or commission.
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| Burden of Proof | show 🗑
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| show | A legal doctrine by which the healthcare professional in charge may be held liable for the acts of those directly under their supervision.
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| Causation | show 🗑
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| show | Involves violations of individual rights.
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| show | derives its power fro the judicuary; judges make the ruling in cases and those rulings can be referred by another judge in a similar case.
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| show | Derives its power from the constitution. Example: Right to free speech, right to privacy.
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| show | Involves agreements between parties.
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| show | A legally enforceable agreement between two parties in which each agrees to do something.
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| show | Involves the punishment of individuals who break the law.
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| show | A resume of academic achievements and professional positions.
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| show | Injury suffered by the plaintiff; damages can include pain and suffering, mental anguish, disfigurement, loss of wages, loss of enjoyment in life, medical bills, future and past surgeries.
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| show | The person or party being sued.
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| Demonstrative | show 🗑
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| Depositions | show 🗑
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| show | A written, short , concise , abbreviated paraphrase of a lengthy deposition.
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| Discovery | show 🗑
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| show | Occurs when a health care provider accepts responsibilty for a patient.
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| show | Graphics , boards, blowups, instruments, weapons, and other demonstrative objects other then testimony that can be percieved by the senses that can be presented in the courtroom meditation.
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| show | Failure of a person to act as a reasonable person should under similar circumstances.
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| Hearsay | show 🗑
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| show | The rules regulating when hearsay is allowed to be heard and considered as evidence by a jury.
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| Interrogatories | show 🗑
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| show | The Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations that sets a minimum level of quality in medical care setting.
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| show | The obligation of one party to another.
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| show | This phase is initiated when a complaint is filed with the court and served upon the defendent.
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| show | Professional negligence arising from the improper practice of the healthcare professional.
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| show | The failure of a healthcare provider to act as other healthcare providers would have under similar circumstances.
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| show | Plaintiffs' injury is reduced by factors.
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| Mitigating Damages | show 🗑
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| Motion in Limine | show 🗑
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| show | The failure to meet the standard case required of a reasonably prudent person would do under the circumstances.
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| show | Synonymous with "apparent agency"
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| Physical Examination | show 🗑
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| Plaintiff | show 🗑
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| Pre-litigation | show 🗑
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| Products Liability | show 🗑
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| Proximate Cause | show 🗑
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| Real Evidence | show 🗑
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| show | Written requests by one party asking another party the truth of uncontroverted facts.
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| Request for Production | show 🗑
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| show | The thing speaks for itself.a situation or happening
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| show | that is self-evident
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| Respondeat Superior | show 🗑
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| show | A managed care program directed at reducing lawsuits; avoiding lawsuits; and reducing risk on the workplace.
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| show | The range of activities, actions set by policy as the domain of practice.
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| show | Consitutional Law, Common Law, Administrative Law, and Statuary Law.
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| show | The norm of the paractice standards derived from the state, federallaw, professional standards.
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| Stare Decisis | show 🗑
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| Statutes | show 🗑
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| Statute of Limitation | show 🗑
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| show | An action of civil court.
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| show | " taking the place of another". Refers to the imposition of liability upon another incurred as a result of their relationship with easch other. Similar to Respondeat Superior.
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| Voir Dire | show 🗑
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| show | A type of lawsuit brought on behalf of a deceased person's beneficiaries.
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| show | A court order compelling a witness to appear at trial or deposition.
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