study guide vocab — unit 1 sec B (MA)

Malpractice

Professional person is negligent in his or her duties

Morale

The confidence, enthusiasm, and discipline of a person or group at a particular time.

Negligence

Results from failing to act with reasonable care

Assault

Threatening a person or acting in a way that causes the person to fear them

Battery

Unlawful touching, whether or not touching cause bodily harm

Harassment

Aggressive pressure or intimidation

Dignity

The state or quality

False imprisonment

The state of being imprisoned without legal authority

Abandonment

Occurs when the physician ends the relationship without proper notice while the patient still needs treatment

Invasion of privacy

The tort of unjustifiably intruding upon another’s right to privacy by approaching his or her name or likeness

Libel

Damaging person’s reputation in writing

Patient abandonment

A form of medical malpractice that occurs when a physician terminates the doctor-patient relationship without reasonable notice or a reasonable excuse and fails to provide the patient with an opportunity to find a qualified replacement care provider.

Respondent superior

Latin term that means “let the master answer”

Res ispa loquitur

Latin term that means “the thing speaks for itself”

Tort

Wrongs committed against a person or property

Patient’s bill of rights

Guarantees a patients’ information, fair treatment, and autonomy over medical decisions, among other rights.

Consent

Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something

Advance directives

A written statement of a person’s wishes regarding medical treatment, often including a living will, made to ensure those wishes are carried out should the person be unable to communicate them to a doctor

Breach

Act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct

Moral conduct

Is the tendency for an individual to conform to the social norm for a set of values

Medical ethics

Involves examining a specific problem, usually a clinical case, and using values, facts, and logic to decide what the best course.

OSHA

Occupational safety and health administration

HIPPA

Health information and portability and accountability act

NPO

Nothing by mouth

Implied consent

Refers to situations in which it is assumed a person consented to something by his actions