HS Legal Vocab

Occurs when a person is harmed or injured because a provider fails to meet expected or established standard of care:

• assault

• tort

• physical abuse

• negligence

Unlawful touching of another person without his or her consent:

• neglect

• false imprisonment

• civil law

• assault

Legal relationships between people & protection of personal rights

• civil law

• criminal law

Restraining an individual or revealing personal information about an individual without that person's consent:

• battery

• psychological abuse

• negligence

• invasion of privacy

Failure to give care normally expected of a person in a particular position, resulting in injury to another person:

• legal disability

• negligence

• physical abuse

• assault

"Bad practice"; professional negligence; failure of a professional to use degree of skill & learning commonly expected in that profession resulting in injury, loss, or damage to patient

• assault

• malpractice

• defamation

• slander

Care resulting in physical damage:

• psychological abuse

• sexual abuse

• physical abuse

• verbal abuse

Occurs when false statements either cause a person ridicule or damages the person's reputation

• defamation

• invasion of privacy

• negligence

• criminal law

Voluntary permission by a person to have a procedure performed once the procedure and all related risks have been explained in terms, and language, a person can understand:

• informed consent

• malpractice

• tort

• slander

Unlawful touching of another person without his or her consent:

• slander

• psychological abuse

• negligence

• battery