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NURSING HOME ABUSE LEGAL GLOSSARY |
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Glossary of Nursing
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Side Effect: A problem caused by medical
treatment or medication. For example, if you take medication to relieve a
headache, your stomach may become upset.
Skilled Nursing Care: Health-care services
given by or under the supervision of licensed nurses and also under the general
direction of a doctor.
Skilled Nursing Facility: A facility that
provides skilled nursing care or rehabilitation services.
Sodomy: Generally, oral or anal sex
without consent.
Specialist: A doctor who treats only
specific illnesses, body parts, or persons within a certain age group.
Standard of Care: In the law of
negligence, the degree of care which a reasonable, prudent or careful person
should exercise under the same or similar circumstances. If the standard falls
below that established by law for the protection of others against unreasonable
risk of harm, the person may be liable for damages resulting from such conduct.
Standard of Proof or Burden of Proof:
Degree of proof required in a specific kind of case to prevail. In the majority
of civil cases, it is proof by a preponderance of the evidence.
Stare Decisis: Policy of the courts to not
overturn precedents; adherence to precedents.
Statute: Law passed by congress.
Statute of Limitations: The time
prescribed by statute in which a plaintiff can bring a lawsuit.
Subpoena: Command to appear at a certain
place and time to give testimony on a matter.
Subpoena Duces Tecum: Command to produce
some document or paper.
Substantive Law: The body of law that
creates, defines and regulates right.
Sue: The act of bringing a lawsuit.
Suit or Lawsuit: Generally, a court action
brought by one person, the plaintiff, against another, the defendant, seeking
compensation for some injury or enforcement of a right.
Summons: Formal document beginning a civil
action or special proceeding which is a means to gain jurisdiction over a party.
Also, a document directed to a sheriff or other authorized person ordering him
to serve the person named on the summons that must appear at a certain place and
time to respond to the action.
Supplier: A company, person, or agency
that provides a certain medical item or service, such as a hospital bed or
wheelchair.
Survival Action: A survival action is
brought by the administrator of a deceased person's estate in order to recover
loss to the estate resulting from a tort. A survival action, unlike a wrongful
death action, is not a new cause of action. Where death is caused by negligence,
both a survival action and a wrongful death action may be brought.
Survival Statutes: Statutory law that
provides for a legal action to continue after the death of a person involved in
the action.
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