DEH 221: Ethics & Practice Management
Vocabulary
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Discountinuation of a patient/provider relationship once it has been established.
Abandoment
A non-governmental process for ensuring that a predetermined set of standards have been met; used to assure the public that the graduates of a particualar program are prepared to practice.
Accreditation
An assertion, claim, or statment of an individual in a legal proceeding.
Allegation
To be without morals; that which is indifferent to morality.
Amoral
Independent and self determining
Autonomous
The principle of self-determination in a person; the right to participate in and decide on a course of action without undue influence; provides the foundation for a right to privary and the ability to choose.
Autonomy
The commission of bodily harm against another person.
Battery
The principle of promoting good or well being.
Beneficence
The act of breaking a contract, agreement, promise, or legal duty by failing to perform a promised or required act.
Breach of contract
Collectively, the qualities that define a perosn or group fo persons; a person's moral nature.
Character
Legal action taken to protect the private rights of individuals.
Civial action
Legal matters other than criminal ones; includes torts and contractual agreements.
Civil law
The belief that one particular group or social class of people is superior to another.
Classism
A set of rules or guidelines that address the ethical standards of a professional group.
Code of Ethics
Having the knowledge, skill, and ability to perform a prescribed set of tasks or duties independently and with confidence.
Competency
That which is entrusted or held in secret; the precept by which information shared by a patient during the course of receiving health care is kept in confidence by the health care provider.
Confidentiality
The theory that the rightness or wrongness of actions is determined by consequences; also called teleology.
Consequentialism
An acton of lack of action that contributes to the harm or injury of an individual and negatively affects his or her health status.
Contributory negligence
A legal action taken in a court of law to protect society.
Criminal action
A body of laws established for the purpose of preventing harm to society; describes what conduct is criminal and prescribes the punishemt for criminal conduct; may be condified into criminal panel codes.
Criminal law
The act of maliciously making a flase statment that injures another's reputation; termed libel if a written statment, slander if an oral statement.
Defamation
A person being sued in civil case or charged with a crime.
Defendant
A written comporehensive, ongoing file of assessment findings, treatments rendered, notations, and contracts with the dental patient.
Dental record
A discovery method, out of court, whereby infomration is given under oath of testimony of a party or witness and recorded by a court reporter, can be subject to cross-examination.
Deposition
A process by which or period during which each party invovled in a lawsuit obtains information concerning the facts of the lawsuit; includes depositions, interrogatories, and record copying.
Discovery
The act of treating persons differently based on factors they cannot control, such as age, handicapping conditions, race or gender.
Discrimination
That just allocation and distribution of rescources for the good of society.
Distributive justice
The right of fair application of laws or regulations for each person; a process established to ensure fairness and equality.
Due process
Action or conduct based on moral or legal obligation
Duty
An individual younger than 18-years of age who is indpendent of a parent; laws can vary from state-to-state.
Emancipated minor
The federal agency that investigates claims of employment discrimination and sexual harassment.
Equal employment opportunity commission
The process by which ethical decisions are made susing a structural forma.
Ethical analysis
A situation in which two or more eithical principles are in conflict.
Ethical dilemma
A systematic examination of morals invovling critical reflection and analysis about what is right and wrong.
Ethical theory
The inquiry into the nature of morality or moral acts; values by which human beings live in relation to other human beings, nature, God, and/or themselves.
Ethics
The act of annoying or threatening a person by word or deed.
Harassment
An oath, written by a physician in the fourth centry, that is the foundation for most ethical codes in health care.
Hippocratic oath
That which is bad or wrong, unethical.
Immoral
An individual who has undergone professional training but who is no longer able to function in a professional capacity owing to illness or substance abuse.
Impaired professional
Not specifically stated or written, but capable of being inferred by action(s).
Implied
