Minors
- Legal Age: Under Age 18
- Parent or Guardian Consent
- Emancipated Minor
- Emergency Situation
Unions and Collective Bargaining
- Protect and Advocate for Members
- Decision-Making Process and Negotiation Between Two Parties
- Strike
Rights for the Mentally Ill Patient
- Right to Treatment
- Right to Refuse Treatment
- Right to Informed Consent
- Right to Confidentiality
- Restraints
Good Samaritan Law
- Legal Immunity
- No Legal Obligation to Provide Aid
- If Providing Aid, Cannot Abandon
- Vary State to State
Advanced Directives
- Process of Planning for Future Care
- Instructions about Healthcare
- Life-Sustaining Treatments
- Level of Comfort Care
- Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
- Appointed Person to Make Decisions
- No CPR
- Allow Natural Death (AND)
- Medical Order
Documentation Guidelines
- Objective Information
- Subjective Information from Patient
- Objective Supports Subjective
- Avoid Unnecessary Words and Details
- Exact Measurements
- Assessments
- Document ASAP
- Treatment and Response
- Change in Status
- Admission, Transfer, Discharge or Death
- Document in a Logical Order
- Ensure Information Recorded is Complete
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Confidentiality
- See and Copy Health Records
- Update and Correct Health Record
- Use and Disclosure of Protected Health Information
- How to Receive Health Information
- Public Health Activities
- Law Enforcement
- Deceased People
Informed Consent
- Names and Qualifications of People Involved
- Explanation of the Procedure
- Information on Harm that Can Result
- Alternative Therapies
- Right to Refuse
- Nurses May Witness Consent
- Student Nurses Do Not Witness Consent
- Consent from Legally Authorized Person
- Life Saving Procedure Without Consent
- Deaf, Illiterate, Speaks a Foreign Language
Negligence and Malpractice
- Failure to Provide Acceptable Care
- Anyone Can be Liable
- Did Not Carry Out Duty and Patient Was Injured
- Must Be a Professional
- Not Following Standard of Care
- Failure to Communicate
- Failure to Document
- Failure to Assess and Monitor Patient
- Improper Delegation
Patient’s Rights
- Respectful Care
- Information
- Consent or Refuse Treatment
- Continuity of Care
- Privacy and Confidentiality
- Medical Record Review
- Consent or Refuse Part in Research
- Health Alternatives
- Explanation of Charges and Bills
Tort Law
- Tort
- Intentional Tort
- Assault
- False Imprisonment
- Battery
- Unintentional Tort
- Negligence
- Malpractice
- Documentation