What is a legally recognizable injury or monetary award?
100
Safe Haven Law
What is a state's law that allows mothers to abandon newborns to designated safe facilities without penalty?
100
De-identify
What is to remove all information that identifies patients from healthcare transactions?
100
Utilitariansism
What is decision making based on doing the most good for the most people, everyone's needs are considered?
100
Wrongful Discharge
What is a concept that an employer risks litigation if he or she does not have just cause for firing an employee?
200
Xenotransplantation
What is transplantation of animal tissues and organs into humans?
200
Right to Know Laws
What is a state's law that allow employees access to information about toxic or hazardous substances and other safety issues?
200
Covered Entity
What is healthcare providers and clearing houses that transmit HIPAA transactions electronically, and must comply with HIPAA standards?
200
Beneficence
What is to do the most good?
200
Just Cause
What is a legal reason for firing an employee?
300
Veracity
What is truthfulness?
300
Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
What is a law that allows individuals to donate their bodies or body parts after death for the use in transplant surgery or research?
300
Covered Transactions
What is electronic exchanges of information between 2 covered entities?
300
Bioethics
What is a discipline dealing with the ethical implications of biological research methods and results, especially in medicine.
300
Quid Pro Quo
What is something for something?
400
Surety Bond
What is insurance coverage on workers that employers can collect on if the employee embezzles.
400
Uniform Determination of Death Act
What is a proposal that established uniform guidelines for determining when death has occurred?
400
TPO
What is Treatment, Payment and Healthcare Operations?
400
Ethics Committee
What is a committee made up of individuals who are involved in a patient's care, with the purpose of reviewing ethical issues in difficult cases.
400
Employment at will
What is a concept that an employer or employee can end the employment at any time for any reason?
500
Thanatology
What is the study of death and of the psychological methods of coping with it?
500
Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act
What is a federal statute that guides states in constructing laws to address advance directives?
500
HIPAA (what does it stand for?)
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act? or What is a federal law that helps workers keep their insurance coverage when changing jobs?
500
Etiquette
What is standards of behavior considered to be good manners (in the work place or in a profession)?
500
Worker's Compensation
What is a form of insurance established by federal and state statutes that provides reimbursement for workers who are injured on the job?