AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Invasion of Privacy - ✔✔Breech of
confidentiality
✔✔Libel - ✔✔malicious spreading of personal info through written text
✔✔Slander - ✔✔through verbal communication
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔Failure to use such care as
a reasonably prudent and
careful person would use
under similar
circumstances
✔✔Malpractice - ✔✔Improper or unethical
conduct or unreasonable
lack of skill by a holder of
a professional or official
position.
✔✔Unintentional
, Torts - ✔✔Acts that are not intended to do harm
✔✔What elements must be established in order for negligence to be considered? -
✔✔Element of duty, Element of Breach
of duty, Element of Injury, Element of
relationship
between the duty
& the injury
✔✔What Duties are Owed to the Patient? - ✔✔Certain level of skill
▪ Privacy
▪ Honesty
▪ Empathy
▪ Do no harm
▪ Meeting needs
▪ Compassion
✔✔6 legal doctrines - ✔✔Res Ipas loquitur, respondent Superior, borrowed servant,
Doctrine or personal liability, doctrine of corporate responsibility, doctrine of the
resonably prudent man
✔✔Res ipsa loquitur - ✔✔the things speaks for itself
✔✔Respondeat Superior - ✔✔let the master respond
✔✔Borrowed servant - ✔✔physician held responsible for their orders
✔✔Doctrine of Corporate Responsibility - ✔✔hospitals accountable for actions of staff
✔✔doctrine of personal liability - ✔✔individual held liable for their own negligent
conduct."the doctor said it was OK" may not work!
✔✔Doctrine of the reasonably prudent man - ✔✔to determine legal standard for a
situation using a hypothetical person
✔✔Informed
Consent - ✔✔Patient must be of legal age
and mentally competent
▫ Consent must be voluntary
▫ Risks and benefits must be
given
▫ Consent should be written,
signed by patient and
disinterested witness and