| A | B |
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| Legal | Responsibilities that are authorized or based on law |
| Criminal Law | Focuses on behavior know as crime, deals with the wrongs against a person |
| Civil Law | Focuses on legal relationships between people and the protection of a person's rights |
| Tort | When a person is harmed or injured because a health care provider does not meet the established or expected standards of care |
| Malpractice | Failure of a professional to use the degree of skill and learning commonly expected in that individual's profession, resulting in injury |
| Negligence | Failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a particular position, resulting in injury |
| Assault | Threat or attempt to injure |
| Battery | The unlawful touching of another person without consent |
| Informed Consent | Permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind |
| Invasion of Privacy | Unnecessarily exposing an individual or revealing personal information without their consent |
| False Imprisonment | Restraining an individual or restricting their freedom |
| Abuse | Any care that results in physical harm, pain, or mental anguish |
| Defamation | False statements either cause a person to be ridiculed or damage the person's reputation |
| Slander | Spoken defamation |
| Libel | Written defamation |
| Contract | Agreement between 2 or more parties |
| Implied Contracts | Obligations that are understood without verbally expressed terms |
| Expressed Contracts | Stated in distinct and clear language, either orally or in writing |
| Legal Disability | A person who does not have the legal capacity to form a contract, like a minors or mentally incompetent |
| Agent | When a person works under the direction or control of another person |
| Ethics | A set of principles relating to what is morally right or wrong |
| Confidentiality | Information about the patient must remain private and can be shared only with other members of the patient's health care team |
| Patients' Rights | The factors of care that patients can expect to receive |
| Patients' Bill of Rights | A bill recognized and honored by health care facilities stating the level of care patients can expect to receive |
| Resident's Bill of Rights | Every long-term care facility must inform residents or their guardians of these rights and a copy must be posted in each facility |
| Advance Directives | Legal documents that allow individuals to state what medical treatment they want or do not want |
| Living Wills | Documents that allow individuals to state what measures should or should not be taken to prolong life when death is expected |
| A Designation of Health Care Surrogate/Durable Power of Attorney | Document that permits an individual to appoint another person to make any decisions regarding health care |
| Patient Self-Determination Act | Mandates that all health care facilities receiving any type of federal aid comply with their requirements |
