| A | B |
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| Advance DIrectives | severe illness or injury |
| Bioethical Dilemma | a dilemma that involves health care and biological sciences |
| Center for Disease Control and Prevention | a govt agency whose goals are to promote health, prevent disease and protect communities |
| COde of Ethics | a list of written statements describing proper conduct for a group of people |
| Contract | is a voluntary agreement between 2 or more people |
| Event Report | filed when an accident occurs on the premises of a HCF. This includes informaiton on the victim, a description of the accident, and statements from witnesses and employees |
| HIPPA (Health Information Portability and Accountability Act | a federal law that specifically addresses privileged communication between HCP and pts. This includes a rule that protects the privacy of people's health information. |
| Informed Consent | means that the patient has been given a clear explanation of a procedure or test, its risk, its benefits and the consequences of not performing the procedure or test as well as alternativcec options before giving their voluntary permission to have the procedure or test performed |
| Liablity | refers to being legally responisble for causing harm |
| Malpractice | is professional negligence. Occurs when HCW unintentionally harm patients as a result of not following their profession's scope of practice |
| OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administeration) | a govt agency that creates and enforces workplace safety standards to protecet emnployees from injury and illness |
| OBRA (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act | Created in 1987, includes many regulations regarding long-term health care, including the Residents Bill of Rights. |
| Patients Bill of RIghts | is rights that are honored by many health care providers |
| Power of Attorney (POA) | is for health care, a document that allows a person, a principal, to give another person, an agent, the right to make decisions regarding the principals health care if the principal is unable to make decisions or communicate because of a severe illness or injury. |
| Privileged Communication | is information that is shared within a protected relationship, such as that between a physician and patient, attorney and client, and clergy and counselee |
| Risk Management | a process of identification, evaluation and prevention |
| Scope of Practice | what HCW should & should not do according to their profession. Each HCW has this and are bound to abid by it. |
| Criminal Law | Govt. is plaintiff; range of offenses and punishments (community service to execution) |
| Civil Law | diputes between people; punishment is payment |
| Assault | threatening or attempting to harm |
| Battery | touching person without permission |
| False imprisonment | violating person's freedom |
| Libel | false text/images |
| Slander | false words (spoken) |
| Invasion of Privacy | violating right to be left alone (Ex: exposing a patient, breaching confidentiality |
| Tort | person harmed due to another person's actions or failure to act |
| PHI | information that is mandated by the federal law can not be released to anyone at anytime other then to the patient, permission is obtained from the patient, obtained due to incident, used for treatment or payment, cases of abuse or for research reasons |
| Defamation of Character | when Libel or slander occurs |
