Healthcare Related Legislation
This protects the privacy and security of individuals' medical information and ensures health data is handled confidentially
What is HIPAA?
It protects employees' rights to organize, form unions, bargain collectively, and engage in concerted activities for mutual aid or protection in the workplace.
What is NLRA?
A committee created to deal with ethical problems and dilemmas in the delivery of patient care
What is ethics committee?
Right of an individual to make his or her own independent decisions
What is autonomy?
A civil wrong committed by one individual against another. They can be classified as either intentional or unintentional. When classified as a civil wrong, the wrongdoer can be held liable in a criminal and/or civil action
What is tort?
It was enacted in 2010, aimed at increasing access to health insurance, improving healthcare quality, and reducing healthcare costs
What is the Affordable Care Act?
US agency that enforces workplace safety and health regulations to ensure safe and healthy working conditions for employees
What is OSHA?
In the hospital setting, describes the procedures that a healthcare provider can perform based on education and other applicable training requirements that may be established by the hospital and licensing bodies. Healthcare professionals who perform procedures that are not privileged to perform can be responsible for any financial harm suffered by the patient and result in the loss of licensure to practice in one's profession
What is scope of practice?
Federal act that bars employers from discriminating against disabled persons in hiring, promotion, or other provisions of employment
What is American with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
A method of pre-trial discovery that consists of statements of fact taken by a witness under oath in a question-and-answer format as it would be in a court of law with the opportunity given to the adversary to be present for cross-examination
What is deposition?
A US law that governs how federal agencies collect, maintain, use, and share personal information. Gives individuals the right to access and correct records and limits the disclosure of data without consent.
What is the Privacy Act of 1974?
When a patient is improperly or prematurely released from a healthcare facility. Especially without medical stabilization, discharge planning, or informed consent
What is wrongful discharge?
A legal concept that provides that a patient has the right to know the potential risks, benefits, and alternatives of a proposed procedure before undergoing a particular course of treatment and understand what will be occurring
What is informed consent?
A not-for-profit, independent organization dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare in organized healthcare settings. The major functions include developing organizational standards, awarding accreditation decisions, and providing education and consultation to healthcare organizations
What is Joint Commission?
Requires hospitals to provide emergency medical care to anyone, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay, until they are stabilized or transferred
What is EMTALA?
Refers to management's right to receive notification of a bargaining unit's intent to strike, typically 10 days
What is strike notice?
A situation that forces a person to make a decision that involves breaking some ethical norm or contradicting ethical values. It involves decision-making between two or more possible actions where any one action can be justified as the right decision, but whatever action is taken, there always remains some doubt as to whether the right choice was made.
What is ethical dilemma?
Laws designed to protect those who stop to render aid in an emergency. These laws generally provide immunity for specified persons from a civil suit, arising out of care rendered at the scene of an emergency, provided that the one rendering assistance has not done so in a grossly negligent manner.
What is good samaritan laws?
Taking another person's property without consent with the intent to permanently deprive the owner of its use and ownership
What is larceny?
Temporary removal of a provider's legal right to practice, often due to misconduct, legal issues, or violations of regulations in place until the investigation is complete or issues for reinstatement are met.
What is suspension of licensing?
On qualification, the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that an institution allows a physician to perform on a specified patient population. Qualification includes a review of a physician's credentials such as a medical school diploma, state licensure, and residency training
What is clinical privileges?
When one is a virtuous person, it is one's virtues that build their moral character. These virtues have value when addressing difficult healthcare dilemmas and include forgiveness, courage, commitment, compassion, fairness, freedom, integrity, and more. What are these virtues referred to as?
What is pillars of moral strength?
Written instructions expressing one's healthcare wishes in the event that he or she becomes incapacitated and is unable to make such decisions
What is advanced directives?
Contains statements made by employees and physicians in the healthcare setting regarding a deviation from acceptable patient care
What is incident reports?