Workplace Law
This act sets rules for overtime and child labor. (e.g. setting overtime/minimum wage rules)
What is the FLSA? (Fair Labor standards Act )
The term for unauthorized disclosure of PHI compromising its security
What is the Breach?
The organization where side effects from vaccines are reported
What is VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System)?
This act categorizes controlled substances into five schedules based on their potential for abuse.
What is the Controlled Substances Act?
An illegal question to ask during a job interview
What is “Do you plan to get pregnant soon?”
This act prevents genetic info discrimination.
What is GINA?
The justification for sharing or disclosing PHI under HIPAA
What is permissible use or disclosure?
This practice reduces legal and safety issues.
(e.g. practice involves strategies to mitigate or prevent accidental losses in a healthcare setting, Potential Threat, Legal Labilities and Incidents)
What is risk management?
This law ensures lab test reliability.
What is CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments)?
This describes revenge on someone who wronged you.
What is retaliation?
This law funds Social Security via payroll taxes.
The law that establishes a payroll tax to fund Social Security and Medicare
What is FICA(Federal Insurance Contributions Act)?
These must be reported even without consent. (e.g. all states require some form of mandatory reporting)
What are mandatory reportable conditions (e.g. abuse)?
The first thing to do after a patient care error.
What is report the error to the supervisor or compliance officer?
This act regulates drug safety and recalls.
What is the FDA?
(Food, Drug, Cosmetics Act)
What occurs when an individual’s personal information is misused for financial gain
What is Identity Theft?
This act prohibits firing without cause in some cases.
What is wrongful termination?
The law that protects healthcare professionals from liability during emergency care
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
OSHA standard mandates the use of universal precautions and protective equipment to handle bloodborne pathogens?
What is the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard?
What term refers to deceitful actions that result in someone giving up something valuable?
What is fraud?
Asking about age during interviews violates this act.
What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?
The law ensures protection against employment discrimination for individuals with disabilities
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? (Title I and V of the American w/ Disabilities Act)
This act gives patients rights to unpaid family leave.
What is the FMLA?
Which act prohibits employment discrimination based on physical or mental disabilities
What is Rehabilitation Act?
The act that created a national organ donor registry
What is the National Organ Transplant Act?
A provider referring to a spouse’s business may violate this.
What is the Stark Law?