Unit+5+Terms

Below is space for the creation of the Unit 5 Key Terms (found on page 104 in your text) - as a class, you will decide how to divide up the work and how the terms should be organized. In addition to the creation of the terms, one person in class should be in charge of documenting who is responsible for what (in addition to their contribution to the key terms). The place to document the participation is outlined below.

This assignment is due by classtime (6:50 AM) Friday, January 9, 2008.

Tu- before the last 28 term, 3 term of the begining of unit 5 Karen- Last 28 Terms
 * Responsibilities:**

Abuse:** refers to the use or treatment of something (a person, item, substance, concept, or vocabulary) that is harmful. It can be classed by the target of abuse or the type of abuse.
 * Key Terms:


 * Advance directives:** A written expression of a person's desire for medical treatment used in cases where the person becomes incapacitated and is no longer capable of making his or her own decisions. Examples include Living Wills and Durable Power of Attorney.


 * Agent:** An active force or substance capable of producing an effect. One that acts or has the power or authority to act.


 * Assault and Battery:** is the combination of two violent crimes: assault (the threat of violence) and Battery crime (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as //threatened// violence rather than //actual// violence.


 * Civil Law:** Civil law seeks to resolve non-criminal disputes such as disagreements over the meaning of contracts, property ownership, divorce, child custody, and damages for personal and property damage.


 * Confidentiality:** Confidentiality is a legal protection and assurance of your right to privacy to the fullest extent allowable.


 * Contract:** To shorten, decrease in size, or draw together, an agreement between two or more persons.


 * Criminal Law:** Criminal law governs crimes, including felonies and misdemeanors. Crimes are generally referred to as offenses against the state


 * Defamation:** Slander or libel; a false statement that causes ridicule or damage to a reputation.


 * Designation of Health Care Surrogate:** Is a document that permits an individual (known as principal) to appoint another person (known as an agent) to make any decisions regarding health care if the principal should become unable to make decisions.


 * Durable Power Attorney (POA):** Designation of Health Care Surrogate. (see above)


 * Ethics:** Principles of right or good conduct.


 * Expressed Contracts:** Are stated in distinct and clear language, either orrally or in writing,


 * False Imprisonment:** Restrainig an individual or restricting an individuals' freedom.


 * Health Care Records:** Are also considered priviledged communications. Such records contain information about the care provided to the patient. The patient has a right to obtain a copy of any information in the record.


 * Implied Contracts:** Are those obligations that are understood without verbally expressed terms.


 * Informed consent:** Permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind and aware of all factors involved


 * Invasion of Privacy:** Revealing personal information about an individual without his or her conscent.


 * Legal:** Authorized or based law.


 * Legal disability:** Lack of legal capacity or qualification, such as that of a minor or a mentally impaired person, to enter into a binding contract.


 * Libel:** a written or oral defamatory statement or representation that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression; **:** a handbill especially attacking or defaming someone

The document takes effect if you can't communicate your own health care decisions
 * Living Wills:** A legal document in which you state your wishes about certain kinds of medical treatments and life-prolongin procedures.


 * Malpractice:** Providing improper or unprofesional treatment or care that results in injury to another person.


 * Negligence:** Failure to give care that is normally expected, resulting in injury to another person.


 * Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA):** This law makes it clear that you have the right to make decisions regarding your medical care including the right to accept or refuse treatment and the right to make an advance directive. The law also requires health care facilities/agencies to discuss advance health care directives with you as you enter their system.


 * Patients' Bill of Rights:**is a statement of the rights to which patients are entitled as recipients of medical care. Typically, a statement articulates the positive rights which doctors and hospitals ought to provide patients, thereby providing information, offering fair treatment, and granting them autonomy over medical decisions.


 * Patients' rights:** Factors of care that all patients can expect to receive.


 * Priviledged communications:** All personal information given to health personnel by a patient; must be ekept confidential.


 * Resident's Bill of Rights:** Resident Rights provide bases for the provision of care for nursing home residents


 * Slander:** Spoken comment that causes a person ridicule or contempt or damages the person's reputation.


 * Tort:** a wrongful or illegal act of civil law not involving a contract.