Lesson 1 Flashcards
Provides over 80% of direct patient care
Allied Health
Combines science and technology with patient care
Allied health
Outline activities providers perform in delivery of care
Legal Practice Act
Develops code of ethics to assist in self-regulation
Legal practice act
Outline profession’s mission and objectives
Legal practice act
What are sanctions of lapse
Ethical conduct
Legal recquirement
Professional etiquette
The right or wrong
Ethical conduct
Legal or illegal
Legal recquirements
Proper or improper
Professional Etiquette
What sanction: loss of professional reputation
Ethical conduct
What sanction: loss of professional affiliations
Ethical conduct
What sanction: punishment as prescribed by law
Legal recquirement
What sanction: loss of professional respect and fellowhip
Professional etiquette
How we make judgments in regard what is right or wrong
Ethics
Body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority
Law
It called having bound legal force
Law
Minimum standard of expected performance between individuals in a society
Law
Emanates from judicial decisions
Common law
Arises from legislative bodies
Statutory Law
Flows from rules and regulations and decisions of administrative agencies
Administrative Law
What are the three laws
Common Law
Statutory Law
Administrative Law
Three classification of lawsuit
Plaintiff
Defendant
Prima Facie
A person who brings an action in a court of law
Plaintiff
Legally sufficient to establish a case
Prima facie
