Definitions
Blow Your Whistle
Laws
100
To cease work or interfere with the work of others as a protest
What is a strike
100
When an individual reveals information regarding an issue within their environment that is a wrongful act
What is whistle blowing
100
This is committed when healthcare professionals file false claims or perform unnecessary procedures
What is health care fraud
200
An organization of employees who band together to secure favorable wages and improved working conditions
What is a union
200
True or false: As a nurse your priority is to support the actions of the physician even if the actions are deemed unsafe?
What is FALSE! As nurses we are obligated to protect our patients from unsafe practice and advocate for them
200
These lawsuits allow nurses to secretly expose heathcare fraud or unsafe practice
What is Qui tam lawsuits
300
Acting as a group in a single voice
What is collective action
300
A person should attempt this prior to blowing the whistle
What is act within the organization to make the issue known and attempt to rectify it
300
Modified in 1986, this "act" was created to encourage whistle-blowers to come forward
What is the False Claims Act
400
The practice of employees as a collective group bargain with management in reference to wages, work practice, and work benefits
What is collective bargaining
400
True or false: Whistle blowers have laws in place to protect them from maltreatment and to maintain their annonymity
What is TRUE
400
The first federal legislation to deal with collective bargaining.
What is The Erdman Act
500
An organization that acts on behalf of a group to bargain with management regarding various work related issues
What is collective bargaining agents
500
A person who informs upon another making disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing
what is a whistleblower
500
This gave private employees the right to organize unions to demand better wages and safer workplace environments
What is The Wagner Act
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