Legal and Ethical Vocabulary

Agreement between 2 or more parties

• Contract

• Tort

• Malpractice

• Legal Disability

Wrongful acts that result in injury to a patient

• malpractice

• tort

• negligence

• law

Spoken defamation

• slander

• libel

• malpractice

• assault

Written defamation

• Libel

• Slander

• Battery

• Tort

Principals that are morally right or wrong

• law

• ethics

• tort

• patient rights

Restricting a patient's freedom

• Invasion of Privacy

• False Imprisonment

• Tort

• Negligence

You perform a procedure that is outside of your scope of practice

• Malpractice

• Negligence

• Assault

• Battery

The healthcare worker does not do something that is apart of their job

• Negligence

• Malpractice

• Battery

• Assault

Threatening or attempt to injure

• Battery

• Assault

• HIPAA Violation

• Malpractice

Performing a procedure without the patient's consent

• Battery

• Assault

• Malpractice

• Negligence