Legal and Ethical Responsibilities

Any care that results in physical harm or pain, or mental anguish.

• abduction

• acupuncture

• abuse

• aerobic

A legal document designed to indicate a person's wishes regarding care in case of terminal illness or during the dying process

• Advanced directive

• living wills

• Contract

• malpractice

Someone who has the power or authority to act as the representative of another

• defamation

• civil law

• informed consent

• agent

Physical or verbal attack on another person, treatment or care given to a person without obtaining proper consent; Unlawfully touching another person without that persons consent

• invasion of privacy

• Assault and Battery

• slander

• tort

Laws that focus on the legal relationships between people and the protection of a person's rights

• contract

• civil law

• negligence

• legal disability

Not to be shared or told; to be held in confidence, or kept to oneself

• healthcare records

• privileged communications

• confidentiality

• parents' rights

A list of patients rights, implemented by the Department of Health and Human services, that must be recognized and honored by health care providers

• Criminal law

• Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities

• Durable power of Attorney

• Scope of practice

To shorten, decrease in size, or draw together; an agreement between two or more persons.

• libel

• Slander

• criminal law

• Contract

Law that focuses on behavior known as crime; deals with wrongs against a person, property, or society

• civil law

• criminal law

• defamation

• ethics

Slander or libel; a false statement that causes ridicule or damage to a reputation

• defamation

• living wills

• negligence

• slander