Across
- 2. Acting like a parent with intent to protect a person who is unwilling or unable to protect their own interests
- 4. Level of preponderance of evidence; Beyond a reasonable doubt
- 7. Involves higher fines and longer imprisonments including death sentences
- 9. Ethical foundation of professional ethics based on values, policies, and character.
- 11. To do no harm to the patient
- 13. Failure to perform at the reasonable standard of care of the profession
- 15. To ensure the trust that patients and society have in dental hygienists
- 17. To hold in confidence or secret information entrusted by the patient
- 21. Involves lower fines and short imprisonments
- 23. ___# of elements to prove negligence or malpractice: duty, breach, harm, causation
- 25. Science or philosophy of law
- 26. Ethical theory known as virtue ethics is based on the idea that people should develop a virtuous character to achieve happiness
- 27. Law that uses concept of precedent
- 28. Nominal, compensatory, or punitive; life, liberty, or fines
- 30. Form of Utilitarianism that determines which action brings greatest happiness regardless of feelings or laws
- 33. Type of management to identify and prevent injury
- 35. Three most common legal actions relating to health care: breach of contract, professional malpractice, and failure to obtain informed consent
- 37. Oath to do no harm, protect patient rights, confidentiality, place patient above those of society
- 40. Societal mandates, rules and regulations that govern society
- 43. Form of consequentialism focuses on outcomes instead of actions; right action produces most good for most people
- 45. Strategies used to minimize risks
- 46. The party bringing the claim in a civil proceeding
- 47. Involved obtaining the patients consent before the delivery of oral health care services
Down
- 1. To benefit the patient
- 3. Ethical theory that believes the overall goodness of the results is the most important moral consideration
- 5. Ethical theory that guides personal behavior and is developed through sense of self, internal struggle, and understanding one's limitations
- 6. Law that agencies are given the authority to oversee specific laws to ensure that intent of the law is enforced
- 8. Law that is enacted by legislation
- 10. Type of tort that has no intent to cause harm, although harm or injury does occur
- 12. The belief it is right to keep promises, fulfill commitments, and follow rules
- 14. Assertion or claim of an individual in a legal proceeding
- 16. Type of unintentional tort
- 18. Ethical theory that actions are moral if they adhere to moral law, and judges the intention and action itself, not the result
- 19. To tell the truth; not to lie to the patient
- 20. Does NOT have to occur for breach of contract (failure to meet ones obligations)
- 22. Ethics theory that focuses on character traits of an individual rather than behavior
- 24. Societal or peer ideal of what is right and wrong; thoughts or ideas about morality
- 29. Personal or spiritual choice between right and wrong
- 31. Type of Tort that is deliberate and purposeful
- 32. Law that is determined by courts which interpret legal issues
- 34. The party defending the claim
- 36. Law that uses rules and regulations based on legislature
- 38. To guarantee self-determination of the patient
- 39. Law against acts considered offensive to society as a whole
- 41. Type of law that results from a breach of legal duty of society's expectations not a contractual obligation
- 42. Defendant had an obligation to the plaintiff, one element to proving negligence or malpractice
- 44. To be fair to the patient; fairness