Legal Terms Crossword

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  1. 2. Not Resuscitate Order: a request not to have CPR if your heart stops or if you stop breathing.
  2. 3. Directive: legal documents that allow you to spell out your decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time.
  3. 8. improper, illegal, or negligent professional activity or treatment, especially by a medical practitioner, lawyer, or public official.
  4. 11. the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.
  5. 12. Will: a written statement detailing a person's desires regarding their medical treatment in circumstances in which they are no longer able to express informed consent, especially an advance directive.
  6. 13. Abuse: physical injury inflicted on a person by other than accidental means.
  7. 15. Death: denoting a civil action in which damages are sought against a party for causing a death, typically when criminal action has failed or is not attempted.
  8. 16. a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.
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  1. 1. Abuse: involves the regular and deliberate use of a range of words and non-physical actions used with the purpose to manipulate, hurt, weaken or frighten a person mentally and emotionally.
  2. 4. failure to take proper care in doing something.
  3. 5. the crime or tort of unconsented physical contact with another person, even where the contact is not violent but merely menacing or offensive.
  4. 6. federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge.
  5. 7. Abuse: a range of words or behaviors used to manipulate, intimidate, and maintain power and control over someone.
  6. 9. make a physical attack with.
  7. 10. of Privacy: a wrongful intrusion into, or exposure of, one's private affairs such as to cause humiliation or mental suffering to a person of average sensibilities.
  8. 14. Abuse: Sexual abuse is unwanted sexual activity, with perpetrators using force, making threats or taking advantage of victims not able to give consent.