This document discusses various topics related to nursing law and ethics including: 1) Key terminology like torts, negligence, and malpractice. It defines civil and criminal law. 2) Increased responsibilities and risks for nurses including advanced practice nurses. 3) Types of civil wrongs like intentional torts, invasion of privacy, and negligence. 4) How to prevent liability issues through proper communication, documentation, and following standards of care.

1. Ms. Alisha Rijal
Lecturer
Psychiatric Nursing

3.  Terminologies

4.  Rules of conduct, established and enforced by
authority, which prohibit extremes in behavior so
that one can live without fear for oneself or one’s
property”.
By Sullivan and Decker, 2001

5.  Law is a system of right and obligations which the
state enforces
Halstead

6. Criminal
law Civil
law
Common
law

8.  Nurses have more responsibility
 Increased numbers of Advanced Practice Nurses
 To assist in the decision-making
 Protection of nursing practice
 For the identification of the risk of liability

11.  Civil wrongs committed by one person against
another

12. Intentional torts
Quasi-intentional torts
Unintentional torts

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14. Assault
Battery
False
imprisonment

15. Invasion of privacy
MEANING

16.  Intrusion of Solitude
 Appropriation of Name, Likeness or Identity
 Public Disclosure of Embarrassing Private
Facts

17.  Health privacy laws
 Financial privacy laws
 Online privacy laws
 Communication privacy laws
 Privacy in one's home
 Information privacy law

18. Communication
Authority obtain
Informed consent

19. Negligence

20.  The omission of an act that a reasonable and
prudent person would perform in a similar
situation or the commission of something a
reasonable person would not do in that situation
 Joseph J Catalano

21.  Unintentional conduct that falls below a standard
of care established for the protection of others
against unreasonable risk of harm
 JA Halstead

23.  Video 2

25. Improper or unethical conduct or
unreasonable lack of skill by a holder of
a professional or official position
 JCAHO

26.  Failure of a professional person to render proper
services through reprehensible ignorance or
negligence or through criminal intent, especially
when injury or loss follows
 Medical Dictionary

28.  Failure to follow a physician‘s orders
 Delaying patient care

31.  Statute of limitations
 Failure to file that lawsuits
 Assumptions of harm
 Contributory of negligence

32.  Personal

33. Institution

36.  Prevent Equipment failure
Reporting and recording

37.  Causing damages to someone else’s reputation
 Common quasi intentional torts
 Libel
 slander

38.  Truth
 Privilege
 Avoid negative statements
 Medical record documentation

42.  Act of 1996
 numerous offenses relating to health care and sets
civil and criminal penalties for them
 creates several programs to control fraud and
abuse within the health care system

43.  may not be able to pay or have insurance or other
programs pay for the associated costs,
 they are legally responsible for any costs incurred
as a result of their care under civil law.
 fail to pay cannot be held criminally liable unless
they intentionally and knowingly provide false
identifying information to dodge billing

44.  Failure or damages caused during installation or
utilization of an EHR system
 implementation of electronic health records carries
with it significant legal risks

45.  Health care costs and payment issues
 Health care delivery services issues

46.  Issues about life and death
 Abortion
 Fetal rights
 Human experiment and research
 Patient rights

47.  Medical record

48.  Statute of limitations
 Complaint
 Answer
 Discovery
 Deposition
 Trial

49.  Medical record
 Rapport
 Skills
 Knowledge of the client

50.  Appointing and assigning
 Quality control
 Observation and reporting
 Protect public
 Record keeping and reporting
 Responsibility for death and dying

51. Journal Abstract