Ahec test 2
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- Laws/ legal responsibilities formulated for protection of _____________
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Society
self
employer
patient/client - Civil law
- Legal relationships between people; protection of person's rights
- Criminal law
- wrongs against a person, property, society
- health care mainly affected by
- civil law
- criminal law can apply involving
- contracts/torts
- Criminal laws include
- Practicing without required license, Misuse of narcotics, theft, murder
- Must know an follow state laws, regulations
- failure to meet legal responsibilities, can result in legal action against you and your employer
- Torts
- wrongful acts not involving contracts
- malpractice
- professional negligence; failure to use degree of skill, learning expected; results in injury, loss, damage
- Negligence
- failure to give care normally expected; results in injury
- assault and battery
- threat
- Assualt
- attempt to injure
- battery
- unlawful touching without consent
- invasion of privacy
- unnecessarily exposing individual; revealing personal information without consent
- False imprisonment
- restraining/ restricting individual's freedom
- Defamation
- false statements causing ridicule
- Slander
- damaging reputation spoken
- libel
- damaging reputation, written
- abuse
- any care resulting in physical harm, pain, mental anguish;
- true
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true of false?
contract laws also affect health care - contract
- agreement between two or more parties
- Three parts of a contract
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Offer
acceptance
consideration - false
- health care contracts are not expressed or implied
- implied
- obligations are understood without veryablly expressed terms
- expressed
- stated in clear, distinct language; oral or written
- agent
- someone working under the control of another
- principle
- employer
- privileged communications
- important aspect of legal responsibilities; comprises all info given to health care personnel by patient
- ethics
- set of principles relating to what is morally right or wrong
- patient bill of right
- reconized/ honored by many health care facilities