Legal Aspects

2. A specific type of negligence that refers to unreasonable conduct by a nurse.
4. ____ exemption is considered if the consent process would adversely delay emergency care.
6. The failure to act in a reasonable manner under a set of circumstances.
8. The duty of health care providers to protect the secrecy of a patient’s information no matter how it is obtained.
13. Did the nurse violate the duty to the patient?
15. Abbreviation. The act requires that patients be informed of their right to be involved in making decisions regarding the medical care they receive.
17. Did the nurse’s action cause a foreseeable patient injury?
18. Good _____ law is a public policy to limit liability for those who voluntarily perform care and rescue in emergency situations.
19. A deliberate act to threaten to harm the patient of a health care professional. The health care professional can carry out the threat.
20. Did the nurse have a legal obligation to the patient?
21. A nonconsensual touching.

1. False _____ is the unlawful confinement within a fixed area.
3. Did the patient experience harm or injury?
5. Responsible for establishing that the nurse acted wrongfully and proving that the nurse’s conduct was unreasonable.
7. Abbreviation. A strategy to resolve the charges against the nurse out-of-court.
9. _____ rule prohibits release of identifiable personal health information in any form without the patient’s permission.
10. Initially assumed to be innocent of the malpractice charge.
11. _____ consent is given in spoken or written direct words.
12. _____ rule provides two standards to ensure authenticity of electronic personal records namely the integrity standard and person or entity authentication standard.
14. ___ privilege is when the physician chooses to not fully share information that may lead to further patient harm.
16. _____ consent is inferred from the patient’s conduct.