Legal Responsibilities

What are rules of conduct, enforced by the government

• laws

• torts

• ethics

• ethics

__________ is a voluntary agreement between two or more people, examples include implied or expressed.

• disclosure

• Code of Ethics

• contract

• law

What is the proper procedure for documentation error correction?

• white out incorrect information, initial and date

• add corrected information below error, initial and date

• draw a line through the error, add correct information, initial and date

• black out incorrect information, initial and date

What is the law or act that ensures a patient's medical information is private?

• Family Medical Leave Act

• OSHA

• HIPAA Health Information Portability and Accountability Act

• Fair Labor Standards Act

_________________ is speaking false words about people.

• slander

• battery

• liability

• ethics

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

• Contract

• Consent

• Confidentiality

• Conduct

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

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

Civil wrong or wrongful act, whether intentional or accidental, from which injury occurs to another.

• Bail

• Felony

• Tort

• Larceny