Labor-Management Relations
Accreditation and Credentialing
Professional & Institutional Liability
Ethics
Laws & Regulations
100
An agreement negotiated between a labor union and an employer; sets forth the terms of employment for members of the labor union.
What is Collective Bargaining?
100
This organization, established in 1951, sets the standards for and accredits more than 16,000 healthcare institutions in the United States.
What is the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations [JCAHO]?
100
This holds that organizations have a duty to hire & maintain an adequate number of qualified, competent staff; the duty to provide safe and adequate equipment and the duty to maintain a safe physical environment.
What is Corporate liability?
100
Addressing complex ethical and human rights issues confronting nurses and designing professional development programs to increase ethical competence is the work of this group.
What is the Center for Ethics and Human Rights?
100
Top Priorities: Accidents about to happen Fatalities or accidents serious enough to send 3 or more people to the hospital Employee complaints Referrals from Government Agencies Site Specific targeting program
What is OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?
200
In 1946, this group established its Economic and General Welfare Program [EG&W] for the purpose of improving working conditions of nurses.
What is the American Nurses Association [ANA]?
200
Introduced in 1997, the JCAHO introduced this initiative to integrate outcomes and other performance measurement data into the accreditation process.
What is ORYX?
200
This doctrine holds employers responsible for the actions fo the organization's employees when performing services for the organization.
What is Respondeat Superior [Let the Master Speak]?
200
The strict adherence to a code of conduct that is above reproach.
What is integrity?
200
Qualitfying events include : (1) specific criteria for plan coverage, (2) qualified beneficiaries, and (3) qualifyng events.
What is COBRA ( Consolidated Omnibus Budger Reconcilitation Act)?
300
This is a method, established by the union and management, for determining where problems exist and solving those problems fairly and quickly.
What is the negotiated grievance procedure?
300
This organization manages the voluntary accreditation programs for individual physicians, health plans, and medical groups.
What is the National Committee for Quality Assurance [NCQA]?
300
The failure to exercise reasonable or ordinary care.
What is negligence?
300
Developed by the ANA, these group of statements are designed to help all nurses maintain constancy in care quality and live up to expectations of responsibility.
What is the Code of Ethics for Nurses?
300
Equal Pay Act of 1963 Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 Fair Labor Standards Act FLSA Child Labor Provisions FLSA Ammendmetns of 1989
What are acts protecting employees?
400
The process in which an impartial third party is chosen by the union and management to render a final and binding decision.
What is arbitration?
400
This organization works in partnership with states, communities and private organizations to address the needs of people with substance abuse and mental health issues.
What is The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA]?
400
These four [4] elements must be present for malpractice to occur.
What is duty, breach of duty, causation and injury?
400
An obligation to do no harm and promote good.
What is beneficence
400
Civil Rights Act of 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1991 Age Discrimination in Employment Act Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Vetrans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 Immigration Act of 1990 Consumer Credit Protection Act Pregnancy Discrimination Act
What guides the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Affirmative Action committees?
500
This law was enacted in 1935 in response to widespread strikes and violent confrontations. It is the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector.
What is The National Labor Relations Act [NLRA]?
500
This organization oversees the state board examination process for registered nurses.
What is the National Council of State Boards of Nursing [NCLEX]?
500
An organization wide-wide service that takes corrective action to decrease jeopardy to the establishment, patient and staff.
What is risk management?
500
Passed in 1990, this legislation requires hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospice providers, HMOs, and other health care institutions to provide information about advance health care directives to adult patients upon their admission to the healthcare facility.
What is the Patient Self-Determination Act?
500
Medicare and Medicaid SCHIP Programs for Medical Indigent and Uninsurable State Nurse Practice Acts
What are federal and state programs?
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