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Final Exam Guide FOR 2025/2026 (the most recent
quizzes)
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Forbids discrimination on the basis of sex, race,
color, religion, or national origin in all areas of the employment relationship
Good Samaritan Law - Provides limited protection to someone who voluntarily chooses to
provide first aid
Patient Bill of Rights - Established in 1973, a list of rights that are designed to protect
both the patient and HCP
Self-determination act - A federal law that requires all federally funded institutions to
inform clients of their right to prepare advance directives.
Negligence - Negligence occurs when a healthcare professional acts outside the standard
of care or fails to act at all.
ex: routinely draws blood from a patient and damages the blood vessel
Malpractice - Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards
injury or harm to client had to have occurred
ex: the nurse did something causing injury to a patient
How to avoid malpractice - Competence, Charting, Compliance, Communication,
Confidentiality, Courtesy and Carefulness.
Consent includes an understanding - 1. procedure to be performed
2. risks involved
3. expected desire outcome
4. expected complications/side effects
5. alternative treatments available
Implied consent - Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is
given treatment under the legal assumption that he or she would want treatment.
Validated by another physician
, Sources of Law - Constitutional, Statutory, Administrative, Common
Constitutional Law - law that involves the interpretation and application of the U.S.
Constitution and state constitutions
Statutory Law - The body of law enacted by legislative bodies (as opposed to
constitutional law, administrative law, or case law).
Administrative Law - rules, orders, and decisions of administrative agencies
court of law - A court in which the only remedies that could be granted were things of
value, such as money damages. In the early English king's courts, courts of law were distinct
from courts of equity.
Tort Law - Involving an act that brings harm to a person or damage to property
intentional tort - A tort committed by one who intends to do the act that creates the harm.
ex: assault or battery, false imprisonment, fraud
unintentional tort - negligence and malpractice
Ex: accidentally drawing up the wrong dosage of a medication and administering it to the patient
Deontology - what is right regardless of consequences
Utilitarianism - The theory, proposed by Jeremy Bentham in the late 1700s, that
government actions are useful only if they promote the greatest good for the greatest number of
people.
burden of proof - the obligation to present evidence to support one's claim
precedent - Example could be a nurse and physician coming to an agreement on a patient's
diagnosis due to specific signs and symptoms
An event used as a guide
What is an advanced directive? - a written statement of a person's wishes regarding
medical treatment, often including a living will, made to ensure those wishes are carried out
should the person be unable to communicate them to a doctor.
Medical POA
DNR
Organ donation
Transactional Leadership - leadership that motivates subordinates by rewarding them for
high performance and reprimanding them for low performance
|Verified Practice Questions with A+ Answers |
Final Exam Guide FOR 2025/2026 (the most recent
quizzes)
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Forbids discrimination on the basis of sex, race,
color, religion, or national origin in all areas of the employment relationship
Good Samaritan Law - Provides limited protection to someone who voluntarily chooses to
provide first aid
Patient Bill of Rights - Established in 1973, a list of rights that are designed to protect
both the patient and HCP
Self-determination act - A federal law that requires all federally funded institutions to
inform clients of their right to prepare advance directives.
Negligence - Negligence occurs when a healthcare professional acts outside the standard
of care or fails to act at all.
ex: routinely draws blood from a patient and damages the blood vessel
Malpractice - Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards
injury or harm to client had to have occurred
ex: the nurse did something causing injury to a patient
How to avoid malpractice - Competence, Charting, Compliance, Communication,
Confidentiality, Courtesy and Carefulness.
Consent includes an understanding - 1. procedure to be performed
2. risks involved
3. expected desire outcome
4. expected complications/side effects
5. alternative treatments available
Implied consent - Type of consent in which a patient who is unable to give consent is
given treatment under the legal assumption that he or she would want treatment.
Validated by another physician
, Sources of Law - Constitutional, Statutory, Administrative, Common
Constitutional Law - law that involves the interpretation and application of the U.S.
Constitution and state constitutions
Statutory Law - The body of law enacted by legislative bodies (as opposed to
constitutional law, administrative law, or case law).
Administrative Law - rules, orders, and decisions of administrative agencies
court of law - A court in which the only remedies that could be granted were things of
value, such as money damages. In the early English king's courts, courts of law were distinct
from courts of equity.
Tort Law - Involving an act that brings harm to a person or damage to property
intentional tort - A tort committed by one who intends to do the act that creates the harm.
ex: assault or battery, false imprisonment, fraud
unintentional tort - negligence and malpractice
Ex: accidentally drawing up the wrong dosage of a medication and administering it to the patient
Deontology - what is right regardless of consequences
Utilitarianism - The theory, proposed by Jeremy Bentham in the late 1700s, that
government actions are useful only if they promote the greatest good for the greatest number of
people.
burden of proof - the obligation to present evidence to support one's claim
precedent - Example could be a nurse and physician coming to an agreement on a patient's
diagnosis due to specific signs and symptoms
An event used as a guide
What is an advanced directive? - a written statement of a person's wishes regarding
medical treatment, often including a living will, made to ensure those wishes are carried out
should the person be unable to communicate them to a doctor.
Medical POA
DNR
Organ donation
Transactional Leadership - leadership that motivates subordinates by rewarding them for
high performance and reprimanding them for low performance
