Across
- 2. All patients have the right to this service, even if they don't have insurance and cannot pay.
- 4. Healthcare workers are mandated reporters of ______.
- 5. "_____ communication." Protected physician-patient relationship
- 10. Type of consent given without speaking or signing anything.
- 12. "Legal ______." someone who cannot legally give consent.
- 14. Permission for one person to do something to another person
- 15. Professional negligence (usually by a doctor) that involves acts during the treatment of a patient
- 17. "_____ of practice" procedures a MA can and cannot do
- 19. Hurting someone's reputation (example: libel and slander)
Down
- 1. Type of tort where someone deliberately causes harm
- 2. Type of consent given by specifically stating an agreement
- 3. Unintentionally harming another person
- 6. "Invasion of ______." interfering with someone's right to be left alone
- 7. Being responsible for causing harm (legal responsibility)
- 8. Acronym for the agency that protects people from infectious diseases and environmental threats
- 9. Acronym for the national standard that protects personal health information
- 11. Acronym for the agency that enforces safety in the workplace
- 13. Harm caused by action or inaction
- 16. A system of rules enacted by a governing body, standards for behaviors
- 18. These rights are given to people to protect them from violation by the government.