Chap 3 vocab Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| 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 |
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