Legal and Ethical Issues

3. Responsibilities that are authorized or based on laws.
5. Restraining an individual or restricting an individual’s freedom without authorization
7. Directive / legal documents that allow individuals to state what medical treatment they want if they are incapacitated or unable to express their wishes
9. a threat or attempt to injure another person
11. failure of a professional to use the degree of skill and learning commonly expected in that person’s profession that results in injury, damage or loss to the person receiving care.
12. An Act, established by Congress in 1996 to protect privileged communications and maintain confidentiality of health care records.
16. a wrongful act that occurs when a person is harmed or injured because a health care provider does not meet the established standards of care.
17. all information given to health care personnel by a patient.
18. an agreement between two or more parties that have an offer, acceptance and consideration

1. unnecessarily exposing an individual
2. A person who does not have the legal capacity to form a contract due to age or mental deficiency
4. permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind and who understands the risks
6. revealing personal information about an individual without their consent
8. When false statements are made that can cause a person to be ridiculed or damage their reputation.
10. Any care that results in physical harm, pain or mental anguish
13. The unlawful touching of another person without consent
14. set of principles relating to what is morally right or wrong
15. failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a particular position