NCM119 part2

28 flashcards · Other · by KRYSTEL ANN A MARTIN

  1. is an act of baseness, vileness or depravity in social or private duties which a man owes to his fellow man or to society in general, an act contrary to the accepted and customary rule of right and duty between men.

    Moral Turpitude

  2. is the unlawful killing of a human being with intent to kill. It is a very serious crime. Nurses should keep in mind that death resulting from a criminal abortion is murder.

    Murder

  3. is also considered murder.

    Euthanasia

  4. is the killing of a human being by another.

    Homicide

  5. means the expulsion of the product of conception before the age of viability.

    Abortion

  6. The Constitution of the Philippines protects the life of the unborn from conception

    (Art. Il Sec. 15).

  7. is the killing of a child less than three (3) days of age

    Infanticide

  8. is a crime committed by one who kills his/her father, mother or child whether legitimate or illegitimate, or any of his/her ascendants or descendants or his/her spouse

    Parricide

  9. is a crime against a person or property. The taking of personal property of another person from him or in his presence constitutes robbery.

    Robbery

  10. Substitution of One Child For Another, or Abandonment of a Legitimate Child

    Simulation of Birth,

  11. is the termination of the ability to produce offsprings

    Sterilization

  12. is a legal wrong, committed against a person or property independent of a contract which renders the person who commits it liable for damages in a civil action.

    tort

  13. is the imminent threat of harmful or offensive bodily contact. It is unjustifiable to touch another person, or to threaten to do so in such circumstances as to cause the other to reasonably believe that it will be carried out.

    Assault

  14. is an intentional, unconsented touching of another person. It is, therefore, important that before a patient can be touched, examined, treated or subjected to medical/surgical procedures, he must have given a consent to this effect.

    Battery

  15. means the unjustifiable detention of a person without a legal warrant within boundaries fixed by the defendant by an act or violation of duty intended to result in such confinement.

    False imprisonment

  16. is oral defamation of a person by speaking unprivileged or false words by which his reputation is damaged.

    Slander

  17. is defamation by written words, cartoons or such representations that cause a person to be avoided, ridiculed or held in contempt or tend to injure him in his work.

    Libel

  18. is defined as an act committed or omitted in violation of the law

    Crime

  19. exists when two or more persons agree to commit a felony and decide to do it.

    A conspiracy to commit a crime

  20. are those who take a direct part in the execution of the act; who directly force or induce others to commit it; or who cooperate in the commission of the offense by another act without which it would not have been accomplished.

    Principals

  21. are those who, having knowledge of the commission of the crime, either as principals or accomplices, take part subsequent to its commission by profiting themselves or assisting the offender to profit from the effects of the crime by concealing or destroying the body of the crime, or the effects or instruments thereof, in order to prevent its discovery or by harboring, concealing, or assisting in the escape of the principal of the crime, provided the accessories act with abuse of their public fu…

    o Accessories

  22. Are those persons who, not being principals, cooperate in the execution of the offense by previous or simultaneous act.

    Accomplices.

  23. is a general name for a criminal offense which does not in law amount to felony.

    misdemeanor

  24. is usually a fine or imprisonment for a term of less than one year.

    Punishment

  25. is a public offense for which a convicted person is liable to be sentenced to death or to be imprisoned in a penitentiary or prison. It is far more atrocious in nature than misdemeanor

    A felony

  26. is committed with deceit and fault. A deceit exists when the act is performed with deliberate intent and there is fault when the wrongful acts result from imprudence, negligence, or lack of skill or foresight.

    felony

  27. may be classified into reckless imprudence and simple imprudence. It is reckless imprudence when a person does an act or fails to do it voluntarily but without malice, from which material damage results immediately

    Criminal negligence

  28. is the state of mind of a person at the time the criminal act is committed, that is, he/she knows that an act is not lawful and still decided to do it anyway.

    Criminal intent