| Law | Legal Terms and Concepts | True or False | Policy and Acts | Nurses Legal Responsibilities |
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What is a rule of conduct established by the Government of a
society?
Law
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What is Liability?
An obligation one has incurred or might incur
thru any act or failure to act |
What is True?
The purpose of the child care and protection act is to
ensures adults consider the views and the best interest of children |
What is the act of having unlawful carnal
knowledge of a female by force, fear or fraud, against her will.
Rape
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What is a will?
A will is a legal document with instructions of
someone’s intent or desire concerning the disposal of assets such as money and property after death. |
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What is a Felony?
An act punishable by death or greater than
one year imprisonment |
What is the Invasion of Privacy?
Breach of confidentiality, photographing patients without their consent.
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What is False?
Battery is to threaten or attempt to touch a person
without consent. |
What is the date that the child care and protection act approved?
March 11, 2004/ March 25,
2004. |
What is a legal document that allows an
individual to specify aspects of care they wish to receive should they become unable to make or communicate their preferences
An Advance directive
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What is Malpractice?
The failure of a Professional to use
there skills as a reasonably prudent member of the the profession would use under similar circumstances, which leads to harm or injury |
What is Negligence?
the failure to act as a reasonably prudent
person would have acted in a specific situation. |
What is True?
Crime is a violation of criminal law or criminal wrong against a person or that person’s property
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What is the Mental Health Act?
The act provides for a person to be admitted to a mental facility as a voluntary patient on an application made on his behalf if it is established the application is not made against his will
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What is a DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDER?
It is an order written by physicians when a client has indicated a desire to be allowed to die if he/she suffers cardiac and/or respiratory arrest.
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What is Civil Law?
Concerned with the legal rights and duties of private
persons. In this instance, the individual’s behavior is not a threat to the entire society |
What is Breach of duty, Foreseeability, Causation, Harm, or injury and Damages?
Give 3 circumstances that must be present to prove malpractice or negligence in the court of law
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What is False?
Rights is an obligation on the part of an individual to perform an act for which that individual is accountable
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What is False?
True or False. The birth of every still-born child should not be registered by the Registrar in a Register of Still-births
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What is the age of consent for sexual activities?
18 years
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What are Intentional Torts and Quasi-intentional Torts?
What are two Categories of civil law?
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What is Euthanasia?
The act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured persons in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy
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What is False?
Elements of malpractice are standard of care,
Accountability and Feasibility |
To reduce the number of new HIV infections through the establishment of a supportive policy/legislative
environment To strengthen mechanisms for the treatment, care, and support of persons living with and affected by HIV/AID To mitigate the socio-economic impact of HIV/AID on individuals, families, communities, and the nation
Give two objectives of the HIV/AIDS policy
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“Nurses and
Midwives Act, 1964 Jamaica”
What are Jamaican nurses are governed by?
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