Employment & Hiring
A RACS supervisor, at his/her discretion, can require that the staff leave his work station until he complies with this policy.
What is Personal Appearance 4-01?
These types of reports are completed to serve as written documentation of all incidents, HIPAA violations, and/or accidents involving RACS clients, staff, volunteers, visitors, or property, in which an actual or possible privacy violation, injury or damage has taken place.
What are incident reports?
Staff should take these types of precautions to avoid direct skin contact with the bodily fluids of others.
What are universal precautions ?
This online platform can be used by staff on their computers or mobile devices to make 100% anonymous reports of compliance issues at RACS.
What is StopIt?
Per policy 11-08 this will be considered by the agency to be the same as a written signature.
What is an electronic signature?
This commences at 12:01 a.m. Sunday and ends at 12:00 midnight the following Saturday.
What is the work week?
RACS staff, volunteers, Board of Directors members, and contractors are required by law to report these types of allegations?
What are allegations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation?
Per policy 8-05, these are defined as any event, incident, occurrence or condition which causes or has the potential to cause loss of, or damage to, life and/or property and disrupts, or threatens to disrupt normal operations of RACS.
Per polic 11-03, this type of reporting is defined as reporting information known or believed to be true without fabrication or falsification.
What is good faith reporting?
Policy 9-06 states that this must not be written down where it is visible to others.
What is a network password?
Per policy 4-03 distributing literature and circulating these types of documents at agency sites or facilities by staff or by anyone outside the agency at any time is prohibited.
What are petitions ?
These types of funds may not be borrowed, used as assets of a group home or other RACS program, or used for purposes of personal interest by RACS staff.
What are client personal funds?
Direct services staff at RACS are trained in this non-violent crisis intervention program for use in response to aggressive client behaviors.
What is TOVA?
Policy 11-05 prohibits anyone at RACS from doing this in response to good faith reporting of corporate compliance, privacy, or human right issues.
What is retaliation?
Rather than saving work documents on individual devices staff should save their work on this cloud based drive.
What is OneDrive?
All of these types of Systems are the property of RACS. All messages and data stored on them are property and records of RACS
What are electronic communication systems?
Per policy 7-05 RACS prohibits staff from engaging in these types of relationships with clients.
What are dual relationships?
Per policy 8-05a, these types of precautions involve work practices (such as hand washing) that are essential to provide a high level of protection against communicable diseases such as the flu.
What are standard precautions?
According to policy 11-03 all staff at RACS have this type of responsibility to report perceived employee misconduct, including actual or potential violations of laws, regulations, or agency policies and procedures, to their supervisor and/or the Director of Corporate Compliance.
What is an affirmative responsibility?
Per policy 9-09, any information regarding persons receiving services shall not be disclosed via this type of online media platform.
What is social media?
Offering of free, non-cash promotional items to any prospective or enrolled beneficiary or family for these purposes is prohibited.
What are marketing or beneficiary retention purposes?
RACS may appoint one of these when the capacity of a client to consent to treatment, services, research, or authorize the disclosure of information is in doubt
What are Authorized Representatives?
This online collection of safety data sheets is available on the RACS Intranet and contains information about various hazardous materials that staff or clients may come into contact with during their work.
What is the MSDS?
According to policy 11-09 this list contains the names of individuals and entities excluded from participating in Medicare, Medicaid, and all other Federal healthcare programs
What is the List of Excluded Individuals and Entities [LEIE]?
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