Health Final

The process of determining wheather a person has met predetermined standards.

Being placed on an official list after meeting the educational and testing requirements for a specific profession

A designation that means a person has been granted permission to legally perform certain acts.

A descriprion of list of skills that a specific occupational title is legally allowed to preform

Principles that help choose what is right and wrong to helps decide how to deal with situations.

when principles of ethical system appears to contradict each other and there is no clear answer.

a guide of conduct for HCW

Delibrate action to take someones life without pain.

• Informed- written
• Implied-Actions of opening mouth or stick out arm
• Expressed-Oral

• Battary- Placing hands on someone
• Assult- Threating someone but not actually touching
• False imprisonment- Keeping someone against there will

Someone who is unable to speak for themselves

• Fraud- Cheating or trickery
• Defamation of character- unathorized info result that can harm
• Libel- written
• Slander- Oral

Protects HCW from liability when they give care in an emergancy situation

Organism that nourishes itself at the expense of other living things and causes them damage.

Disease-causing microoragansim

Microorganism that commonly reside in a particular enviorment on or in the body

a disease that can be transmitted either directly or indirectly from one individual to another

Infection that occurs while the patient is receiving health care

• Center for Diease Control
• Goverment agency formulates saftey guidelines to help prevent and control the spread of infectious disease

Guidelines to determine which patients to send where and what treatment will be given during an emergency