Vocab legal ethical

Abuse

• physical or emotional harm to someone

• unlawful restraint or restriction of a person's freedom of movement

• Act of harming or ruining another's reputation

Assault

• Threatening to touch someone without consent

• Touching someone without consent

Battery

• Threatening to touch someone without consent

• Touching someone without consent

Slander

• Making a false verbal statement

• Making a false written stement

Libel

• Making a false verbal statement

• Making a false written statement

Defamation

• Making a false verbal statement

• Act of harming or ruining another's reputation

• revealing personal information about an individual without his or her consent

False imprisonment

• Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards, professional negligence

• unlawful restraint or restriction of a person's freedom of movement

informed consent

• revealing personal information about an individual without his or her consent

• Voluntary permission given by someone who is of sound mind and can understand the risks

Malpractice

• Federal law that regulates the education and testing of nursing assistants

• careless neglect, often resulting in injury

• Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards, professional negligence

Negligence

• careless neglect, often resulting in injury

• Act of harming or ruining another's reputation