Legal and Ethical Responsibilities

_________ are formed from your personal values and reflect your concept of right or wrong.

• Ethics

• Morals

• Tort

• Scope of Practice

A tort is a civil wrong committed against a person or property

• True

• False

A living will is a legal document that makes known a person's wishes about life-support measures.

• True

• False

Which of the following persons can legally give informed consent?

• Mike, age 21, who needs repair of a gunshot wound

• Susie, age 17, who need stitches

• Sabrina, age 19, who was driving while intoxicated and had a car wreck

• Adam, age 10, who needs an immunization against tetanus

What does the government enact to keep society running smoothly?

• laws

• codes of ethics

• morals

• torts

Informed consent implies that the client understands

• the proposed modes of treatment.

• all of the answers are correct

• the reasons the treatment is necessary.

• the risks involved in the proposed treatment.

scope of practice

• employer’s legal liability for acts performed by employees.

• client’s permission for a procedure or treatment.

• level of performance expected of a health care worker.

• duties determined by the job description, level of training, and qualifications.

informed consent

• employer’s legal liability for acts performed by employees.

• client’s permission for a procedure or treatment.

• level of performance expected of a health care worker.

• duties determined by the job description, level of training, and qualifications.

LO 2.3 Failure to use reasonable care that an ordinary person would use

• Liability

• Negligence

• Duty of Care

• Malfeasance

Illegal actions are 

• usually unethical. 
• seldom unethical. 
• not unethical. 
• not related to ethics.