LVN Fundamentals: Ch2
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1. Liable: The person Alleged to be legally responsibile
2. Accountability: Being responsible for one's own actions
3. Liability: You may have done an act by an accident, but you are still legally
responsible
4. Abandoment of care: Wrongful termination of providing patient care
5. Assault: An intentional threat to cause bodily harm to another; does not have to
include actual bodily contact
6. Battery: Unlawful toching of another person with out informed consent
7. Defamation: Spoken or written statements made maliciously and intentionally
that may injure the subjects reputation
8. Libel: A malicious or untrue writing about another person that is brought to the
attention of others
9. Malpractice: failure to meet a legal duty, thus causing harm to another
10. Negligence: The commission (doing) of an act or the omission (not doing) of an
act that a reasonably prudent person would have performed in a similar situation,
thus causing harm to another person
11. Slander: Malicious or untrue spoken words about another person that are
brought to the attention of others.
12. Adcocate: Is the one who defends or pleads a cause or issue on behalf of
another
13. Standards of care: Working within the limit of the training, licensing, experience,
and conditions existing at the time of the duty to give care.
14. Scope of nursing: What you have the obligation to do, what you have permis-
sion to do, and what you are prohibited from doing for patients.
15. Doctrine of Informed Consent: Refers to full disclosure of the facts the patient
needs to make an itelligent (informed) descision before any invasive treatment or
procedure is performed
16. Civil Battery: If you fail to get an informed consent, the patient my take your
touch as an unlawful touch (also called techincal battery); even if you don't have an
intent to harm
17. Confidentiality: You have a duty to protect information about a patient no matter
how yo come to have that infomation. Restrict access to those health professionals
who have a legitamate need to know.
18. Euthanasia: Letting a person die
19. Ethical Dilemmas: Situations that do not have a clear righ or wrong anwser.
They are complex, confusing, and often frustrting situations that call for careful
rational analysis.
20. DNR: Do Not Resuscitate
21. Who governs the rules of LVN's?: The NLN (National League of Nursing)
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1. Liable: The person Alleged to be legally responsibile
2. Accountability: Being responsible for one's own actions
3. Liability: You may have done an act by an accident, but you are still legally
responsible
4. Abandoment of care: Wrongful termination of providing patient care
5. Assault: An intentional threat to cause bodily harm to another; does not have to
include actual bodily contact
6. Battery: Unlawful toching of another person with out informed consent
7. Defamation: Spoken or written statements made maliciously and intentionally
that may injure the subjects reputation
8. Libel: A malicious or untrue writing about another person that is brought to the
attention of others
9. Malpractice: failure to meet a legal duty, thus causing harm to another
10. Negligence: The commission (doing) of an act or the omission (not doing) of an
act that a reasonably prudent person would have performed in a similar situation,
thus causing harm to another person
11. Slander: Malicious or untrue spoken words about another person that are
brought to the attention of others.
12. Adcocate: Is the one who defends or pleads a cause or issue on behalf of
another
13. Standards of care: Working within the limit of the training, licensing, experience,
and conditions existing at the time of the duty to give care.
14. Scope of nursing: What you have the obligation to do, what you have permis-
sion to do, and what you are prohibited from doing for patients.
15. Doctrine of Informed Consent: Refers to full disclosure of the facts the patient
needs to make an itelligent (informed) descision before any invasive treatment or
procedure is performed
16. Civil Battery: If you fail to get an informed consent, the patient my take your
touch as an unlawful touch (also called techincal battery); even if you don't have an
intent to harm
17. Confidentiality: You have a duty to protect information about a patient no matter
how yo come to have that infomation. Restrict access to those health professionals
who have a legitamate need to know.
18. Euthanasia: Letting a person die
19. Ethical Dilemmas: Situations that do not have a clear righ or wrong anwser.
They are complex, confusing, and often frustrting situations that call for careful
rational analysis.
20. DNR: Do Not Resuscitate
21. Who governs the rules of LVN's?: The NLN (National League of Nursing)
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