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Legal Responsibilities

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Responsibilities that are authorized or based on law

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Civil Law

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Focuses on legal relationships between people and the protection of a person’s rights

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Criminal Law

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Focuses on wrongs against a person, property, or society

4
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Torts

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-Wrongful acts that do not involve contracts

-This when a person is harmed or injured because a health care provider does not
meet the established or expected standards of care.

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Negligence

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Failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in that position, results in injury, loss or damage to the person being cared for.

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Assault

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A threat or attempt to injure.

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Battery

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Unlawful touching of a person without consent

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Informed Consent

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Permission granted voluntarily by a person of sound mind after the procedure
and all risks involved have been explained in terms the person can understand.

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Invasion of Privacy

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Unnecessarily exposing an individual or revealing personal information about
the individual without the person’s consent.

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Malpractice

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The failure of a professional to use the degree of skill and learning commonly expected in that person’s profession. Results in injury, loss or damage to the person receiving care.

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Abuse

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Any care that results in physical harm, pain or mental anguish.

12
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List the four different types of abuse

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Types of Abuse:
Physical
Verbal
Psychological
Sexual
Child
Elder 
Domestic
13
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Slander

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When the defamation is spoken

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Libel

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When defamation is written

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Defamation

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When false statements cause a a person to ridicule or damage a persons reputation

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Contract

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An agreement between 2 or more parties.

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offer

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competent person enters into relationship with a healthcare providers and offers to be a patient.

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acceptance

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healthcare providers gives an appointment, or exam or treatment to the patient.

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consideration

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payment made by the patient for services provided

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implied contracts

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obligations that are understood without verbally expressed terms

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Express contracts

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stated by distinct and clear language, either orally or in writing.

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privileged communication

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  • comprises all information given to healthcare provider by a
    patient; by law this information must be kept confidential and shared only with other
    members of the patient’s health care team.
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health care records

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contain info about the care provided to the patient

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HIPAA

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  • (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996)
  • is a federal law.
  • Establishes federal regulations regarding the privacy of patient information
  • Patient privacy is EVERYONE’s resposibility
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HIPPA

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This is mandatory and there are penalties for failure to comply.

Government fines imposed for privacy violations.

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Ethics

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Set of principles relating to what is morally right or wrong

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Ethical Dilemmas

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a necessary choice between equally undesirable ethical alternatives.

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ETHICAL dilemmas

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  • Euthanasia
  • AIDS
  • Aborted fetuses for research
  • Discontinue life support
  • Religious rights
  • Financial issues
  • Transplant Recipients
  • Selling organs
  • Use of illegal substance
  • Animals in research
  • cloning
  • Stem cell research
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REMEMBER!!!

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***It is your responsibility to understand the legal and ethical implications of your particular health care field.

***Ethical responsibilities are not based on law, but rather, morally right or wrong.

*** Healthcare workers MUST respect the patient’s rights.