Chapter 10 Key Terms
- leaving an inpatient facility without permission, which can include failing to return from an authorized leave
- Assault
- intentionally putting another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact
- Autonomy
- ability to make decisions with one’s own free choice, if competent to do so
- Battery
- intentional causation of harmful or offensive contact with another person without that person’s consent
- Beneficence
- doing or producing good for others
- Client confidentiality
- expectation that information shared with the health-care providers or organization will not be divulged
- Duty to warn
- professional responsibility to warn another person if they are being threatened
- False imprisonment
- confining a person without the consent of the person or legal authority
- Fidelity
- devotion to obligations and duties
- Fraud
- deceiving another for personal gain
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- federal law that requires the creation of national standards to protect sensitive client health information from being disclosed without the client’s consent or knowledge
- Informed consent
- communication between a client and a health-care provider that results in agreement and permission by the client for treatment or services
- Intentional tort
- wrong that the defendant knew (or should have known) would be caused by their actions
- Libel
- published untrue statement that damages a person’s reputation
- Malpractice
- when a professional fails to exercise their duty of care to a client
- Mandatory reporting
- obligation to report to stated authorities when neglect or abuse is suspected
- Negligence
- failure to exercise care that a reasonable person in the same circumstances would have exercised
- Nonmaleficence
- doing no harm
- Patient bill of rights
- minimum standards for the ways that clients can expect to be treated by health-care professionals
- Privileged communication
- confidential conversations between parties deemed to be protected
- Protected health information (PHI)
- any information in the medical record that can be used to identify an individual and that was created, used, or disclosed while providing a health-care service
- Right to privacy
- belief that one’s personal information is protected from public access
- Slander
- false statement that harms a person’s reputation
- Standards of care
- guidelines that create a baseline of appropriate (reasonable) professional conduct for nurses
- Tort
- commission or omission that harms someone, creating a civil case for courts to adjudicate liability
- Unintentional tort
- wrong that occurs when a defendant’s actions or inactions were reckless or unreasonably unsafe
- Veracity
- telling the truth
leaving an inpatient facility without permission, which can include failing to return from an authorized leave
intentionally putting another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact
ability to make decisions with one’s own free choice, if competent to do so
intentional causation of harmful or offensive contact with another person without that person’s consent
doing or producing good for others
expectation that information shared with the health-care providers or organization will not be divulged
professional responsibility to warn another person if they are being threatened
confining a person without the consent of the person or legal authority
devotion to obligations and duties
deceiving another for personal gain
federal law that requires the creation of national standards to protect sensitive client health information from being disclosed without the client’s consent or knowledge
communication between a client and a health-care provider that results in agreement and permission by the client for treatment or services
wrong that the defendant knew (or should have known) would be caused by their actions
published untrue statement that damages a person’s reputation
when a professional fails to exercise their duty of care to a client
obligation to report to stated authorities when neglect or abuse is suspected
failure to exercise care that a reasonable person in the same circumstances would have exercised
doing no harm
minimum standards for the ways that clients can expect to be treated by health-care professionals
confidential conversations between parties deemed to be protected
any information in the medical record that can be used to identify an individual and that was created, used, or disclosed while providing a health-care service
belief that one’s personal information is protected from public access
false statement that harms a person’s reputation
guidelines that create a baseline of appropriate (reasonable) professional conduct for nurses
commission or omission that harms someone, creating a civil case for courts to adjudicate liability
wrong that occurs when a defendant’s actions or inactions were reckless or unreasonably unsafe
telling the truth
