Legal Responsibilities

3. What is the definition of Malpractice?

• Improper or negligent treatment of a resident or patient resulting in damage or injury.

• A false and malicious statement.

• Observing daily that a wound is becoming infected and not reporting it to the charge nurse.

• Failure to perform in a reasonable prudent manner or by acceptable health care practices

Keeping certain information private except when another person is authorized to have that information is what?

• Contract

• Consent

• Confidentiality

• Conduct

Ethical is relating to a set of moral principles and values.

True or False?

• True

• False

Ethics is illegal or improper use of a persons property or resources to the degree that substantial risk of harm exists.

True or False?

• True

• False

The illegal or improper use of a persons property or resources to the degree that substantial risk of harm exists.

• Exploitation

• Exploration

• Extinction

• Exact

A civil wrong that unlawfully makes public knowledge of any private or personal information without the consent of the wronged person is what?

• Privacy

• Private

• Negligence

• Invasion of Property

Which one has 5 correct Resident Rights?

• 1. Same as in other person 2. Fully informed 3. Selecting own physician 4. Voice grievance 5. Free of restraints

• 1. Personal possessions 2. Private visits 3. Rent/ purchase goods/ services 4. Set schedule 5. No access to all regulations

• 1. Signs of dehydration 2. Weight loss 3. Pressure ulcers 4. Untrimmed nails 5. Poor oral hygiene
• 1. Confidential treatment 2. Treated like children 3. Not used as labor 4. Meet alone 5. Use phone

Failure to perform in a reasonable prudent manner or by acceptable health care practices is what?

• Neglect

• Nurse

• Nothing

• Negligence

The health care worker does not perform the procedure if the patient does not what?

• Gives them character

• Gives them consent

• Gives them confidentiality

• Gives them conduct

What is allowing a person to direct his/her doctor and medical procedures that merely prolong the dying process?

• Libel

• Malpractice

• Living Will

• PSDA