Legal and Legislative Issues
Legal and Legislative Issues
- Define civil law and what is involved in civil cases
- What are the reasons that nurses are at increased risk for legal liability in nursing practice?
- What does the term Standard of Care mean in nursing? Why is this so important?
- Define malpractice and the term professional negligence (the 5 criteria needed to fulfill this definition)….provide examples of each criteria to deepen your understanding
- What does the term “under ordinary circumstances” means as it relates to professional negligence?
- Define these legal terms that are pertinent to nursing practice—be sure you can relate these term to nursing practice
- Stare decisis
- Liability
- tort
- respondeat superior
- vicarious liability
- product liability
- res ipsa loquitur
- Define intentional torts and give as many examples as you can related to nursing practice
- What are some common reasons nurses are sued (claims filed against them)
- BON—Board of Nursing—what is their responsibility to the public?
- Define the Nurse Practice Act and its role in your ability to practice nursing?
- Define, compare and contrast the three forms of consent:
- Informed consent
- Implied consent
- Express consent
- What is HIPAA and what is its importance to healthcare/your nursing practice?
- What are the parameters of Good Samaritan Immunity?
- Describe the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) of 1991 and how it changed healthcare
- List the common causes of nursing license revocation
