NHA Ethics Ch 17

Applied most often in medical malpractice cases. Governs the private rights of individuals, corporations, and government bodies and includes cases involving contracts, family matters, and property issues

• Civil Law

• Affordable Care Act

• HIPAA

• Criminal Law

A medical document that specifies which treatments will be allowed during end-of-life care

• Consideration

• Tort

• Deposition

• MOLST

Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care

• A formal statement in which the individual who is being deposed promises to tell the truth.

• A legal document stating what procedures the patient would want, which ones she wouldn't want, and under the conditions she would want the provider to do organ and tissue donation, dialysis, blood transfusions, and do-not-resuscitate orders.

• A medical document that specifies which treatments will be allowed during end-of-life care.

• A legal document naming a health care agent or proxy to make medical decisions for patients when they are not able to do so.

An intentional wrongful act by a person or entity who means to cause harm, or who knows, or is reasonably certain, that harm will result from the act.

• Subpoenia

• Breach

• Intentional Torts

• Title VII of Civil Rights

The body of law in the form of decisions, rules, regulations, and orders created by administrative agencies under the direction of the executive branch of the government used to carry out the duties of such agencies

• Civil Law

• Administrative Law

• Common Law

• Affordable Care Act

Tort

• Intentional touching or the use of force in a harmful manner, without the individual's consent.

• A medical document that specifies which treatments will be allowed during end-of-life care.

• An action that wrongly causes harm to someone but that is not a crime and that is dealt with in a civil court.

• A formal statement in which the individual who is being deposed promises to tell the truth.

Ligation

• Subject matter must be legal.

• A witness in a court of law who is an expert on a particular subject.

• The person that is being sued or accused of a crime in a court of law.

• A lawsuit that will include a defendant and a plaintiff.

A doctrine or rule of evidence in tort law that allows an inference or presumption that a defendant was a negligent in an accident injuring the plaintiff on the basis of a circumstantial evidence if the accident was of a kind that does not usually happen in without negligence

• Res Ipsa Loquitur

• Malfeasance

• Living Will

• MOLST

Plaintiff

• The individual that files a lawsuit to initiate a legal action.

• The person that is being sued or accused of a crime in a court of law.

• Someone threatens to cause harm to an individual.

• Addresses the rules and statutes that define wrong doings against the community as a whole.

Failure to use reasonable care, resulting in damage or injury to another

• Nonteasance

• Deposition

• Negligence

• Fraudulent