Legal Responsibilities

Question 0

Criminal law

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Wrongs against person, property, or society

Question 1

Legal responsibilities

Answer 1

Those that are authorized or based on law

Question 2

Civil law

Answer 2

Legal relationship between people and rights

Question 3

Torts

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Wrongful acts that do no involve contracts; healthcare provider doesn’t meet expected standards

Question 4

Malpractice

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Tort, failure to use degree/skill like expected resulting in injury, loss, damage

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Negligence

Answer 5

Failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a profession

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threat attempt to injure

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Assault

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Unlawful touching of other person wo consent

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Battery

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Exposing/revealing info wo consent

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Invasion of privacy- Hippaform

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False imprisonment

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Restraining individual freedom

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Abuse

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Care resulting in physical mental pain

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Defamation

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False statements ridicule damage reputation

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Libel

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Written defamation

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Slander

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Spoken defamation

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Medical malpractice insurance

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Prevent doctors from getting sued for everything

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Contract

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Agreement btw 2 or more parties

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Offer

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1st part of contract; person offers to be patient

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Acceptance

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2nd part of contract; gives appointment/treatment

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Consideration

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Payment made by patients

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Implied contracts

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Obligations, understood not venally expressed

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Expressed contracts

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Distinct, clear, oral, writing

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Not eligible for legal contract

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Minors, mentally incompetent, under drugs, semi or unconscious

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Agent

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Person works under employer

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Principal

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Employer, is liable

Question 24

Privileged communication

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Confide within healthcRe team, written consent to release to others

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Exceptions to privileged communication

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Births/deaths, violence/police involvement, drug abuse, communicable diseases, STDS

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HIPAA Pricacy

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Use or share of in divi dual health cRe

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Hyppa security rule

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Maintain privacy of elk Tronic healthcare info

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Who can see healthcare info

Answer 28

Health insurance companies billing companies and healthcare providers

Question 29

What special request from patient requires the use of a phone

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The special request for appointment reminders or other imfo f via phone in which info in a voicemail should be left to a minimum

Question 30

Clinical death

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One heart stops beating and breathing stops can be reversed by CPR

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Biological death

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Brain death ,not reversible, and this stuff is used for removal of life support and organ donation

Question 32

What are some common reactions to impending death

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Fear ,abandonment ,pain ,and loneliness ,fear of the unknown ,and anxiety about love ones, unfinished work and unfinished dreams ,or the view that this is the end of suffering or the beginning of the new

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Hypes of grieving

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Denial ,anger, bargaining ,depression ,acceptance

Question 34

What are the roles of the healthcare worker and death

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Be supportive ,allow them to express her feelings, help them accomplish final test ,make sure that they are pain-free and comfortable

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Hospice

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Facility to provide care for terminally ill with less than six months to live, death with dignity, pain relief and pallet of care

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Living wills

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Allow people to say what measures should or should not be taken to a long life when conditions are true

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Durable power of attorney

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Permits other person to make decisions for health is unable to make decisions

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Patient self-determination act

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Healthcare places with federal money must provide every adult patient with info regarding advanced directives and honor them

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The two types of advanced directives

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Living wills and durable power of attorney

Question 40

What is physician-assisted suicide

Answer 40

Where to commit suicide with a terminally ill patient with a physician that gives you drugs that the patient takes on their own, legal in Oregon and Washington

Question 41

What is euthanasia

Answer 41

Medical doctor administrated lethal dose of a drive to cause death of a terminally ill patient, illegal everywhere